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Heading to L.A.

It was sunny and blue without a cloud in the sky in San Fran most of the time and further

on down the coast, but then we drove through a blanket of fog and were a snake of cars stuck behind a truck so have gone a little over 200 miles in 7 hours. Nice scenery of course but lousy timing and unfortunately booking through third party internet sources disenables a person to simply change a hotel room to a closer room along a highway because it's “out of their hands” or the system is always just a bit too stupid or you can't get a refund so tired travelers either travel tired or lose money. Another strike for impersonal technologically advanced communication of modern times. Oh well...

Now zipping along typing on a highway, some pig-looking thing or short warthog or dog

or what ran out in front of us and thankfully made it scot free. Will post again, just wanted

to make a Tues. letter happen and say hello, we're pulling over and getting gas right now and

sending this off from a Mickey D's.