Third 24 Hours, June 28, 2015 -- June 29, 2015: Arrived San Pedro, CA

We arrived San Pedro, CA, safe and sound, 8:00 p.m., Monday night.

The trip was exactly 1,590 miles, which was straight through from Grapevine, TX, to San Pedro, CA, with three side trips:

• a minor side trip to the Blue Hole, Santa Rosa, just minutes off I-40
• a major side trip to the Nuclear Energy Museum in Albuquerque
• a major side trip to the Grand Canyon which probably added about 200 miles

After crossing the desert, we stopped at Barstow, CA, to plan our final leg into San Pedro. We picked the route and then departed Barstow at 5:30 p.m. local time. The freeways we took were moving at full speed, generally 70 mph except down Grapevine Hill (if it's still called Grapevine, or if indeed it's Grapevine -- I have to check -- it's the huge 6% down grade on I-15 south of Victorville).

Our route for future reference:

• Barstow to Victorville, I-15
• I-15 south to west on I-210
• I-210 west to California Highway 57 south
• Highway 57 south to California Highway 91 west
• 91 west to I-110 south

5:30 to 8:00 p.m. -- exactly 2.5 hours.

 

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First thing we need to do is to define the time periods. We started traveling at 10:00 p.m. on a Friday night, but for the rest of the trip, the 24-hour period will start at 7:00 a.m. on any given day and will end at 6:59 a.m, the following day.

OCD.

We left Williams, AZ, this morning about 10:00 a.m. local time, or thereabouts.

This will be filled in later, but we have had a good trip so far.

At Kingman, AZ, we continued west to Laughlin, Nevada, and then south to Needles, CA.

At Needles, gasoline was $4.69 / gallon and the temperature hit 115 degrees (we have photographic proof of each which will be uploaded later). Moments later, the temperature fell to 88 degrees as a cold front and a small amount of rain moved through. But then back up to 108 here in Barstow about 5:00 p.m. local time.

Two things to note on the sign:

• price of least expensive grade of gasoline
• diesel is significantly less expensive than gasoline

We took a long break at Barstow, CA, because we were just about to hit LA metroplex rush hour and there was no need to hurry. We took a break and hoped that we would hit the worst of it at 7:00 p.m. when things should be moving fairly well.