We chose a gas station that would get us far enough - more than halfway - so that we wouldn’t have to refill gas another time on this leg. Fortunately, they had local date milkshakes available and Abe got a banana one, which Arielle ended up liking more even though she doesn’t usually like dates. Unfortunately, our horror at the $4.79 per gallon price tag was made even more horrific upon realizing that this one station was not emblematic of California gas prices quite that high but instead a full dollar more per gallon than every subsequent station we passed. Our misery subsided when we got to Barstow, CA and picked up a meal that Arielle had been craving the whole trip - a grilled cheese animal-style from In and Out. Abe got black pepper chicken and mushroom chicken from Panda Express, which was right next door.
We drove another hour or so to Monrovia, CA, where Abe got what he had been craving the whole trip - an ice blended chai latte from Coffee Bean.
Our welcome back to California didn’t include nearly as much traffic as we had expected, which was great, and we pulled in to Arielle’s parents’ home before 5pm, making the whole trip, including stops, about nine hours. We promptly unloaded every item from our trunk and backseat into a bedroom in the house, rendering it completely unusable due to the large volume of items now on the floor. We enjoyed a lovely and delicious dinner of beef ribs prepared by Arielle’s mom for dinner, and Arielle was thrilled to have kosher meat for only the third time in three weeks. Though we hadn’t planned to stay up late and adjust to Pacific Time, we did end up chatting for a while with Arielle’s parents and her sister Cindy, getting to bed after midnight.
Approximate number of miles covered: 487
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