Tuesday, August 18, 2009

California Here We Are

On our way to California the sun was a very round circle in the horizon.

We left at around 6:30 p.m. my sister in law had her Starbucks on one hand and the steering wheel on the other, me I was only the co-pilot and my nephew enjoyed movies in the back seat of the car. Good daylight for at least another hour or so we started our trek.

I'm used to stopping stop all over the place however on this occasion we only had a pit stop at a rest stop, then drove through a Carl's Jr in Quartzite, and gassed up about an hour away from our destination so all in all we did some pretty good time without speeding.

Now here's a McDonalds were the Golden Arches don't necessarily make and "M"


As always our goal was to get to West Covina on time to eat some Rambo's Tacos. We got there with only like 15 minutes to spare so we were lucky but most of all we were hungry so we got our first taco fix. We wanted to attack them right away but not before taking some pictures with the phone's camera and sending them to Phoenix.

It wasn't until past midnight that we finally made it to our destination, two hours later we were finally hitting the hay or in my case the couch.

I had texted my sister earlier asking if she was game to go on a photo hunt around the area. She told me her complete Saturday was free so she picked me up at around noon on Saturday and we hit the road. On my last post I borrowed an image of The Donut Hole from the Internet, I wanted that to be my first stop as I wanted to photograph it myself.


Here are two of my shots from The Donut Hole. Believe it or not it seems like a busy place, and it has been there forever. You drive through the donut hole to buy your donuts, and if you are fast enough you can eat a donut inside the donut.

Then we continued on to old La Puente. There I captured some interesting street scenes, some colorful trees and even the old movie theater which even though still standing doesn't show movies these days. I hope they don't tear it down.

Landmark theater in Old La Puente.


After a good hour or so of driving around we finally decided to go to my sisters house and made plans to go to the Homestead Museum later on.

I'll tell you all about it on a different post. For now just enjoy some of the images I captured.





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6 comments:

The Proverbs 31 Woman said...

I love your blog, It has a little bit of everything. Yall have family gatherings like me and my family do. God Bless and feel free to visit my blog anytime.

MrManuel said...

I have a trip to L.A. next month and I may just try to hit up the doughnut hole.

Michelle said...

Haha the Golden disconnected arches...

Well looks like you got some sight seeing accomplished... that's something we rarely get to do on our jam packed trips to Cali usually. So fun!

Angelica said...

You drive through the donut hole to buy your donuts, and if you are fast enough you can eat a donut inside the donut.


LOL!!!

Betty F said...

I want to go to that place!!! SOunds like you had a great visit

Jose said...

Betty it's righ off the Pomona Fwy on Hacienda Blvd. Really easy to get to.

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