Going back to Cali...I'm going back to Cali...

On I40 bound for the Hollywood Hills. Lunch meeting with Speilberg to discuss a future part. Dinner date with Halle Berry is in the works as well...

Woke up this morning at 5:30am and went back to the park. We planned on watching the sunrise at Yaki Pt, but the road was only accessible by shuttle. We chased the bus for a while, but didn't get on because of where we had to park and then wait on him to make it around again. We were afraid we were going to miss the sunrise so we hung out at Mathers again. There are a lot of Europeans who were at the point. I wouldn't have thought the Grand Canyon would be a destination point for foreigners but the more I thought about it, I am not sure if Europe has a lot of desert/canyon type areas so maybe this is truly a once in a lifetime opportunity for them. Just a hypothesis. I tended to doze off in Western Civ so other than knowing "Big Ben and Parliment" and other destination points from European Vacation with Chevy Chase, my knowledge of Europe is slightly less than Pre-K level.

Looks like it will take us somewhere between 6-8 hours to hit LA today. We met a family at the GC last night from Cali and he gave us some advice on "backdooring" our way into LA and missing some of the traffic. He was a truck driver so we are going to trust his word. His son is also named Daniel....we know that because he only yelled at Daniel for various things for 45 minutes.."No, Daniel...come here Daniel...stop that Daniel...get in the van Daniel...get out of the van Daniel...don't climb on that Daniel...go over there Daniel...come over here Daniel...get away from your sister Daniel....go stand by your sister Daniel....". We saw there van at the hotel this morning and prayed Daniel and his family were not in the breakfast room when we went in.