We had a delightful dinner with Jordan, who Thelma's known since her college days in Minnesota. That's the nice way of putting it. Thelma was his au pair, but we prefer the term chauffeur-tutor-big-sister. :) He's family.
And then we headed to the Santa Monica Pier. Thelma was fantastic in figuring out the back roads to the old 66, to avoid the LA freeways. We found parking and walked to the end of the pier, feeling rather smug about a having made the entire trip. There were so many a tourists taking photos of the end of the road sign, who would never have the Route 66 experience.
(In order to get the sign in the picture, we had to cut off Thelma's face. She's short.)
(At the end of Santa Monica Pier! That's the OCEAN! We did it!!)
Our last night was in beautiful Santa Barbara, staying with Doc and Mrs. C. Doc was Thelma's professor waaaay back when she was in college (he was one of two profs in the whole department...it was a SMALL school...so they became pretty close). The Cs retired to SB from Minnesota (SMART people!!), and have been dropping hints that Thelma needed to visit ever since. We finally complied; Thelma joked that she still kinda felt like he controlled her grade, so she HAD to obey. :) It was fantastic to catch up and see their new life here. We'll be back to visit; it IS Santa Barbara, you know!
Coming home was bitter sweet. We didn't want the adventure to end, yet we
looked forward to being at home. Re-entry is always the pits, but future summer events await and we are looking forward to visitors from afar.
Thanks for riding in the back seat with us, even if it was crowded back there. Hope you enjoyed the adventure! We will let you know when the next journey takes place.
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