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After flying into LAX on the 31st July we picked up the hire car and drove to Calabasas, some 40 minutes outside of LA. The following two days we drove California Highway 1 through Big Sur towards San Francisco, staying in Marina on the first night. The drive is very scenic and the road is twisty and challenging in places! A Subaru Impreza may have negotiated some of the corners with a little more finesse than our Cadillac Deville…

We arrived in San Bruno a little south of San Francisco on the 2nd August, and that evening drove over the Golden Gate Bridge and into the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The following day we rode the BART train into San Francisco itself and spent the day there. That evening we drove down suspiciously towards Palo Alto for a meal, which afforded Steve and I the opportunity to seek out Xerox PARC and take a geeky photograph!

The following day it transpired that Dave had left his passport at the restaurant on the previous evening, so we drove back through Silicon Valley on our way towards Yosemite National Park where we arrived on the evening of the 4th August.

We spent the following day in Yosemite which is stunning, working our way over the Tioga Pass in the afternoon and arriving in Lee Vining that evening. Finding nothing else to do in Lee Vining we ate at what Steve claimed was a famous petrol station and then cajoled the Caddy down a dirt track to Mono Lake.

The 6th August was our final day in California, which we spent driving across Death Valley towards Las Vegas where we arrived that evening having failed to visit Rhyolite Ghost Town due to a storm damaged road (booo!).