Be warned, not just about using a perfume dispenser at a gas station restroom but the fact that this post wasn’t written for many years after the events depicted herein. Whatever is presented as a potential storyline is simply the musings of a now-old man filling gaps in a record of experiences that were being had prior to me adequately documenting the important stuff.

In any case, what I do know is that on this day, we left Phoenix, Arizona, and headed for Monterey, California, an ambitious drive for a quick weekend. Considering that this day of October 8, 2004, fell on a Friday, I am certain that we left in the afternoon. Otherwise, we would have made it all the way to our ultimate destination. Instead, we made it 620 miles to San Simeon, California, which I deduced from the first photo of the next day, which shows our motel.