The Drive from Dallas to LA 01 Jul, 2008
It’s long. Even flying, it’s something like 5 hours and a pretty boring flight. That should be some sort of warning. Luckily my family and I managed to avoid finding $5/gal gas everywhere except in the middle of the desert (it’s still well under $5 here in SB right now). I got around 33mpg so it was around as cheap as flying if you just consider fuel costs, just took a bit longer (3 long days). Dealing with plant inspections is something new to me, so I had to leave my Ikea plant back with my grandparents in Lubbock. Now that I’m here I bought another from the Ikea in Carson (I was in Long Beach visiting my great aunt’s family).
I now have a California driver’s license, which entailed a trip to the DMV which is quite interesting. I got to queue to get a form to fill out, then queue again to turn in the form to get a number, which when called would let me go to a window to figure out the next window to queue at, take a test, and queue again to get it graded. The test is quite a bit different from the one I took in Texas (which was more concerned with right-of-way in different road size situations), and had topics like curbing wheels on hills and safety zones for trolleys.