We drove straight to LA without stopping except to fix our destroyed tire. It didn’t take too long and the only bad part about it was that we had to use a Walmart to fix it. Auren and I have attempted to not eat and/or use any national chains. The idea is that, sure it’s easy to stop at a McDonalds and pick up four dollar menu sandwiches and move on but I can do that in Michigan. So we never use national chains and try to give back to the local communities where we visit. Point is we failed and used a Walmart to fix our tire. Oh well.
It took us about 15 hours to get to LA from Yellowstone. We stopped in Montana and ate so we can say we have been there. I had an elk burger and Auren had a buffalo burger. They had the world’s largest banana split and I was tempted to try and beat the record for eating it (8:00 minutes) but realized I would be wasting $16.00 because I was so full already. Idaho looked like South Dakota but a little greener. Utah was more desert-y and with giant mountains every so often. We only passed through Nevada for a little bit and saw the lights from Vegas in the distance. The ride was wonderful, arrived around seven in the morning and slept for a while.
We stayed with a few buddies from Ann Arbor who live near Hermosa Beach—it lived up to it’s name. We stayed in Hollywood for the night and partied till the streets were dead of action. Welcome to the City of Angels indeed.
Rock Out,
Jonathon Kendall