Friday, February 29, 2008

Note to Self....

I didn't set out for an adventure today, but Phyllip and I ended up on one.

We left the house at 6 AM today for an appointment in Newport Beach (a 2 1/2 hour drive without a lot of traffic).

This is what we drove in from Riverside all the way to Newport Beach. Crazy! I'm used to sunshine 99% of the time.

We get there just fine. While Phyllip is completing a test, he complains of dizziness and then passes out falling into the specialist. Can you say "panic"? Kinda but not really because I pretty much knew why it had happened. The Lord was good enough to prepare me thru Lyndsey. His blood sugar had dropped too low and he needed to eat something. He didn't tell me that he was hungry before his appointment so I thought he would make it until after we were done there. I left him at the office and ran a couple of blocks to Burger King and got him some food. Pretty soon he was just fine.

We finished his appointment and I took him to get a full meal and I was hungry too considering we hadn't eaten since 6:00 this morning and it was 10:30.

In the meantime, I called my friend Laurie to chit chat and to find out if there was an easier way home. See, I really don't like to travel some of the freeways here in SoCal (especially the interchange of the 91, 215, and 60 freeways). (If you live here in SoCal you will understand what I am talking about on the directions) I got on the 405 N and I was supposed to exit onto the 57E and take that to the 10E and then I would meet up with Laurie for lunch. However, I never saw the exit sign. I kept driving until I finally saw the 10E exit. But guess what! I was in downtown Los Angeles!!!!

I again talked with Laurie and she laughed at me because I went WAY out of the way. I got off of the 10E and onto the 605N and then onto the 210E and it dumped me back onto the 10E (for those of you who don't know that was a faster route than to stay on the 10E all the way) to home.

I ended up getting home 2 1/2 hours later than I would have if I would have just gone home the way I went!

I started counting all the cities I went through. Man, it was a lot!!!! Banning, Beaumont, Moreno Valley, Riverside, Corona, Chino, Yorba Linda, Irvine, Newport Beach, Long Beach, Huntington Beach, Redondo Beach, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Rosemead, El Monte, Baldwin Park, Pasadena, Azusa, Irwindale, Upland, San Bernardino, LaVerne, Redlands, Yucaipa, Calimesa, Cherry Valley, etc. These are just the ones I can remember!!!


Laurie's husband, Delmas, said that if anyone wants to see SoCal in one day they need to ride with me!

So the note to self is.....DON'T TAKE ANY ALTERNATE ROUTES! THEY AREN'T ANY QUICKER!!!

My 180 mile trip turned into a 300 mile trip today!

I was so tired when I got home that I had to take a nap!

1 comment:

Shari said...

Wow! That was an adventure! We will be in Irwindale in October because Roy works on the Pit Crew for Sammy Hubinette 2 weekends in October and 1 weekend in September. I put that backwards month-wise. Oh well!