The left coast and beyond.

It's been a busy week but finally, here's another post. We spent four days in San Francisco and got a good opportunity to explore the city. We went on a run towards the Golden Gate bridge, tried to check out Coit Tower (but the elevator was broken), walked around Union Square, and even got to play some frisbee for an hour or two in Golden Gate Park. After a few good days of good weather and a few good nights out in San Francisco, we packed up the car and headed towards Thousand Oaks, CA.

On the way to Thousand Oaks, we spotted an exit for Cupertino and had to make the stop at the headquarters of Apple Inc. After some pictures and a stop into the Apple store, we were on our way. We spent four nights in Thousand Oaks with Alex's brother John and his wife Sandra and son Henry. Our first full day we drove to Venice Beach and walked around the beachside shops and got a chance for a workout at the original muscle beach. We spent the rest of our time in California surfing in Malibu, racing go-karts at an indoor track, and spending plenty of quality time with John, Sandra, and Henry. On our last night in California, John took us out to Dodger Stadium to see them play the San Diego Padres, which was a blast.

After leaving Thousand Oaks, we drove to the Hoover Dam, just outside of Las Vegas. We got to go down into the dam to see the turbines and saw a presentation about the dam from the 1940s. After the Hoover Dam, we continued the drive to Williams, AZ, just outside of the Grand Canyon. The following day we got up and spent about four hours hiking around the Grand Canyon and taking lots of pictures. Once we did enough exploring, we got back into the car and headed off towards our next stop, Phoenix.

On the way to Phoenix, we made a stop for dinner in Sedona, AZ. The drive coming into Sedona is absolutely beautiful, and the town itself is quite amazing as well. We sat down for dinner at Open Range Grill, which had some awesome views, and ate dinner along with watching the end of the Stanley Cup Final. We left Sedona after dinner and drove through the night to Phoenix.

We spent next to no time in Phoenix, which is mostly because we were ready to get going on the rest of the trip. This morning we left Phoenix and drove to Las Cruces, NM, where we are staying tonight. We got some pizza and saw Terminator Salvation, and we'll be getting up early tomorrow to drive to Roswell, NM, where we'll be til Monday. It was Colee's birthday on Thursday and mine is today, so thanks for the good wishes and rest assured that we're enjoying our time on the road. Thanks for the comments.