With everyone now in Southern California, we were ready for our first performance here.  We arrived at the Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center around 11am.  This is a really beautiful space and relatively new, less than 5 years old. I backed the truck into the...

We actually slept in this morning!  I had a few phone calls to make and we wanted to eat before we hit the road.  There's really not too much between Blythe and Los Angeles, CA.  We made sure the truck had full tanks for fuel and we were on our way.  It was a...

Morning came quickly in Fort Stockton.  We still had a good drive ahead of us just to get out of Texas!  We were now heading for the border and El Paso.  Several hours later, we managed to wind our way through El Paso and into New Mexico.  The stop also gave Ethan...

Once again, we were up early and on the road by 7:45am.  We had a lot of ground to cover today - Texas is a big state!  We pulled back onto I-10 West and headed for the West Texas desert.  We drove through Houston and toward San Antonio before it was time for...

Ethan and I left out of Clearwater around 4:30pm and started the journey to Los Angeles, CA.  It is 2,580 miles from coast to coast - and lots of different scenery along the way.  And just as we pulled onto Highway 19 North, our Garmin GPS died!  We tried several...

The drive from Miramar to Clearwater took us through the Everglades of south Florida - including Alligator Alley!  Incredibly, we actually saw some 50-60 alligators along the banks of the river.  As we drove up I75 toward Tampa, we also realized that we didn't have...