Road Trip!!

Hello, strangers!

I'm back afer a far too long!

I just got home from an 1,080 mile road trip to move my bestie from San Diego up to Portland! We had such a great time! 

We left on Friday morning (Jessie's 28th birthday!) and drove up to her Nanny's house to say goodbye. Nanny is quite the character! She made sure to check on Jessie through every leg of our trip! 

After we left Nanny's, we headed up to Rancho Cucamunga for breakfast with Jolee and her grandma, then packed up the car and headed north.

Lucky for us, Jolee loves to drive! She drove the entire way to San Francisco to Jessie's Auntie Randi's house. We had a great time playing car games, having dance parties and yelling at cows! 

We had a very nice dinner at The Mexican with Auntie Randi, her husband and a couple of their friends! Auntie Randi made sure Jessie was a princess- complete with a special birthday crown!  

We left early Saturday morning to head into the city before our long leg of the drive. Jolee is getting married this year (yay!!!) and there is a Jessica McClintock outlet store that we wanted to check out. We didn't have any luck finding a wedding dress, but she did get a great dress for her bachelorette party! If you are ever in SF and need a great party dress, check out this outlet! They have some amazing dresses for as little as $10!!



Driving over the Bay Bridge!

 After that, we were back on the road. I had never driven through northern CA, and it is absolutely beautiful! We made one long stop in Corning, CA at a place called Olive Pit. We had the BEST time there! They have all kinds of olives, stuffed olives and pickled veggies. Best of all (and the reason we stopped!) was for their wine and beer tasting! After our flights, we went to try out their famous habinero stuffed olive. It was quite delicious and had a nice kick to it! We ended up having lunch there as well. The burgers weren't anything to write home about, but the condiment bar was amazing! We also got 2 milkshakes to share- black raspberry and banana... Both of which were out of this world good! We stayed there for almost 2 hours, but it was a much needed break :).

After that was just a LOT of driving. We saw some snow near Mt. Shasta, stopped in Weed, CA just to say we did, enjoyed the last few moments Jessie had in California before crossing the Oregon border, drove through some heavy fog, stopped for gas and had the attendant pump it for us (!!!) and finally at 11:30PM we made it to our final destination!

400 miles to go!

Beautiful Mt. Shasta









Getting gas!

Needless to say, we all slept well Saturday night!

I had never been to Portland before, so Sunday morning we took in some sights. We had a delicious brunch a cute little cafe, then went into downtown to Powell's Books. I don't think I've ever seen so many books in my life! After that we got to go see Jessie's new apartment and meet her roommate, then it was time to say goodbye to Jolee. Jessie and I were very proud of ourselves for not getting lost on our way back! It was Super Bowl time after that, then time to go home.

I am so excited and happy for my bestie to begin this next chapter in her life! I am so glad I got to spend some good, quality time with her before she left. I definitely miss having her so close, but I know she has good things going for her in Portland :).