This trip takes longer than expected. We left LA early Saturday morning. The plan was to stop by Malibu for Breakfast (and check out the space shuttle of course!) and then head up to Big Sur to spend the night.

We did not get very far. Malibu was too nice and we borrowed some body boards and chilled in the water.

Around 3pm we got into our car again but soon we realized that we would not make it to Big sure that same day. Highway 1 is not Autobahn and speeding in 200 km/hour is not really possible in the US.

So, instead of Big Sur we decided to take a really crappy Motel on the way. I imagined plastic covered madrasses and other disgusting things that one is supposed to experience at least once in life. Around 11pm we started to get really  nervous. It was Saturday night and not one single of all the at least 25 motels we had stopped at had a room free for us. We started to get used to the idea of sleeping in the car next to the road.

The road was becoming more and more narrow, my eye lids were getting heavier and heavier. For one second I turned on my full light. And there they were, only 15 seconds after I turned on the light, 2 deers blocking the road in front of us. Thanks to the full light I was able to slow down and make a smooth turn around them. If it would have been 15 seconds earlier I would probably have hit them.

A few minutes later we saw the light: Vacancy. We got a room. For sure the luckiest 10 minutes of this trip. This luck beats baking at Nomad, big time.