Adventures with the Lopez's

It has been 20 years since the last time me and Lyna went on a road trip and that one didn't end up to well.  So we had every right to be nervous on this road trip, but it turned out to be AWESOME!!! It was Me, Lyna and her mom Erminia went to Los Angeles, California to visit her sister Loretta and her family.  We have been planning this trip since February we were originally going to go 50 miles for 50 years to celebrate Lyna's 50th birthday but we soon realized that we would end up in Nephi and decided to go to Wisconsin to see her niece Raquel but for whatever reason we decided to go to California to see Zane and Marley.  I was able to take 10 days off of work and I was gone for 6 days! It was really fun but I sure missed Paul and the boys!!!!!!  

Lyna and her mom came and picked me up early Saturday morning our plan was to drive to Las Vegas stay the night then continue to California.  We were making good time (even with the many stops along the way)so Lyna decided to drive straight through to California.  Lyna took the first shift on driving she made it to Mesquite had lunch then I would drive.  They gambled and I watched I had no desire to throw away my money (I suck at gambling) It was windy leaving Mesquite didn't think anything of it even after I had to hold open the door so Erminia could get in it kept hitting her legs. I was nervous driving Lyna's car she has a brand new 2015 Ford Focus (Oliver) it wasn't my car and I have never driven it before I just thought all the wind was because I wasn't used to her car.  We were about 50 miles outside of Las Vegas when we hit a HUGE SANDSTORM!!!  It was like driving into a brick wall you could not see the vehicles in front of me so much wind it was horrible you could only see maybe 10 feet in front of you. Once we reached downtown Las Vegas it did get better but not by much. When we could finally see good enough realized we were stuck in the express lane and we had to get gas of course I would take a wrong turn trying to get to the gas station finally get gassed up and it is raining and windy so not fun to drive in the first part of our trip we had really good weather of course when I drive it is horrible! We stopped again in Victorsville for a break we switched drivers in Barstow Lyna wanted to drive El Cajohn Pass (The day before there was a wildfire at El Cajohn Pass it burned 8 cars and a semi damaged a couple of other ones people were leaving their cars and running up the hill super crazy) It was a downpour with the firefighters and tow truck drivers I think our top speed was 20 mph.  With it raining and windy Lyna decided she had enough of the freeway and wanted to get off even though we only had a 1/2 mile to our exit to get to the hotel. We were so lost we ended up in Downtown LA, East LA and China town (the worst areas to be in) finally get Lyna to follow the direction to the hotel and we make it there safe.