22.07.2014

Day 2 here in LA and today we went and picked up Ockers bike left about 8.30 am and got on the freeway heading in the right direction which was a good start but about an hour into trip made a cock up which threw us of our route but got sorted and got back on track once again and arrived at Chucks place way out in the desert only about half an hour late and thank god there was a gas station there as we're very low on gas.instead of coming back via the motorway we took a back road called Angeles crst highway 2 which took us about 5000 ft up into the hill behind LA with some great views over the desert. During the winter the road is closed as it gets about 20 ft of snow. The road was good with lots of bends and had to drop down to 25mph on some of the corners so a slow trip back to LA and it was hot, about 90 which is 32 in NZ. After coming of the mountain this is when things turned to custard we got separated and some how I ended up in down town LA and I can say that was some thing I will never forget so stopped to ask directions twice and then I was back on the I110 s freeway and got back to motel about 5.30. All up clocked up about 220 miles ( 350 km ) for the day only annoying thing was Ocker beat me back to motel and he got lost also. Mark and Dave have arrived and have already put a scratch on their rental and they have had to shift motels as their room was canceled for last night, not a very good system here for checking in etc. A few beers we're had last night and went to the casino for tea again $40.00 us for 3 Stella and 3 meals can't go wrong. Big day Wednesday as head to San Fran.