Slow going

That goes for the Internet access as well as our travels today. My gracious aunt & uncle in Sacramento are letting us crash at their house tonight, which means I finally have access to the blog again after two nights at a ranch outside of San Diego. We'd originally planned only a one-night stay there, but when free tickets to the San Diego Zoo were offered, we couldn't say no. Anna especially can't pass up the chance to see animals up close. In order to keep our schedule we've pushed back our travel to Portland and eliminated Seattle from our schedule on the basis of it being relatively close to Spokane and therefore easily traveled to.

Tomorrow morning we head for the California coast, and hopefully the drive will be better that today's. We left S.D. at about 4:30 in the morning in an attempt to beat the commuter traffic to both S.D. and L.A. It worked, but because we're always suckers for sightseeing we decided to take highway 1 up the coast. Bad plan. A nine hour trip to Sacramento became a sixteen hour smack in the face. But we don't need to dwell on that; point is, we're safe and sound after a couple days away from updating, so don't worry. And I apologize for the lack of external links and additional pictures, but I'm working via dial-up, and, well, thinking about uploading pictures to Picasa's web albums at 36 kbps makes me want to chew on a power cable. So maybe later.

Oh, and tomorrow it's unlikely you'll see an update, as we're planning to rough it in one of California's seven bazillion state parks. After two failed attempts at camping earlier in our travels, do pray this one works out a little better.

Cheers,

Marcus