Whew !!!

What a day yesterday was..........
Woke up at 4am EST on the East coast....went to bed 1am EST on the West coast.....
Flight went without a hitch....... Picking up the van was crazy,  Cesar was still doing little touchups to it, at California Westys, when we arrived (1PM PST). Looks great photos to follow.... First order of business was to find an alignment shop...Cesar shop doesn't do that.....He recommended Al Archards shop around the corner....Al was great, took us right in......The name over the shop (AL ARCHARDS) was his grandfathers.....3rd generation.   Joe the mechanic ( of course) was a perfectionist, (nice) and after an hour and a half we were on the road.  Plugged the GPS in and..........no power....(S*%T)  so up California Rt-15 we headed, blind.  Took me awhile on the 8 lane highway to get my sea legs....eventually the "little" van was up to 75 mph cruising along....until.... a woman passing on the  right flagged Karla down.....she rolled down her window to scream "you're leaking fluid" (S*%T)....off to the median... Calif drivers whizzed by. gawking.......Popped open the engine box checked all fluids.....all fine... then I remembered,,,behind the license plate is the radiator fluid overflow tank...yep that was it... I saw one of the mechanic topping off the radiator before we left.  I wiped off the dribble, checked all the temp sensors (fine) and off we went....
  After a phone call for directions we arrived at Sharon & Jacks  (my sister) in Temecula......the weather is perfect....Hugged, kissed, chatted and the began opening some of the fifteen or so boxes we had shipped out...Watched a little TV...then crashed.    
    Today is big......fitting the van for travel.....off to Pepboys to fix the cigarette lighter, drilling holes in the camper top for the external rainfly, more holes in the front windshield for the missing privacy curtain, putting the in LED interior lights, figuring out how the stove, sink, refridge work.....making extra keys, AND trying fit all that gear into the van....... More later gotta go      Geo