5.5 hours and 265 miles later, and I made it to Henderson NV to visit Aunt Margie and Uncle Fred! The drive was less than glamorous as majority of the drive was through the desert. Although some of the giant rock formations were cool, it's definitely not the 101 with the Pacific Ocean and vineyards. I expected the weather to be 100 plus degrees driving through beautiful San Bernadino, Barstow, the Mojavi, and Nevada (sarcastic tone included), but thankfully this bizarre cold front and tropical rain storm was headed inland and it actually rained for some of the drive. It was humid and overcast, but I'll gladly take that over dry desert.
The drive was a little rough due to car "troubles". The temperature gauge for the engine keeps jumping up into the HOT zone. To the point where I think the engine is going to overheat = engine explosion = stranded Kaleena. We thought we had taken care of this issue on Friday when we got the car tuned up, but apparently not. Tomorrow morning we'll be dropping the car by the mechanics to see what the deal is.
Margie and I went out to Sammy's Wood Fire Pizza for dinner. Delicious. A lot like CPK, but with a fancier not so broad menu. We ordered Greek salad, a sun dried tomato pizza, and angel hair shrimp pasta. Needless to say I'm still full.
It's been a great first day of my trip! After the car thing in the morning tomorrow I'll be a regular Vegas tourist! Obviously I'll be visiting the Mandalay Bay Shark Reef in honor of shark week.
Aloha
PS: pics to follow tomorrow. Jaws Comes Home is on
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