We woke up at the crack of dawn this morning which I rather enjoyed, but my trip mates had a harder time rubbing the sleep from their eyes. I stepped out of the vehicle momentarily to perform some quick yoga moves to ease the kink in my neck. The Monterey air was cool and foggy, wrapping our bus in a blanket. When I climbed back in the bus, Morgan and Jacob had drifted back to sleep, and I had the challenging task of waking them and getting them travel-ready. Though our trip started off a bit bumpy, the first day had actually worked out almost perfectly according to our plans, and I was both surprised and relieved. None of us were particularly hungry so we skipped breakfast and headed on to our next destination: Los Angeles. Jacob continued to drive, and after a few hours of staring out the window and listening to music that didn’t fit my taste, I was anxious to arrive. After five long hours we saw the a sign welcoming us to LA.
We continued to drive and marveled at the famous sights we passed, such as Beverly Hills. Then we hit it, the traffic that this area is now known for. We were only moving a few miles per hour and wanted to make it over to the carpool lane. After signaling and making our way over, we heard sirens right behind us. I hadn’t even realized that there was a cop anywhere near us. Jacob reluctantly pulled over and the policeman told us that was had crossed a double yellow, which is illegal. Double yellow? To get into the carpool lane? None of us were aware of this seeing as we don’t have anything like this in the Bay Area. He let us off with a warning, but the moral of this story is to always be well informed on differences of new places, particularly traffic laws. Though we had finally nearly made it to our destination, we somehow managed to get momentarily lost. We turned it into a detour and drove up Mulholland Drive, becoming increasingly more jealous with each house we passed. Pausing at the top, we jumped out of the bus and took some photos of the amazing view of LA.
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