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This is Charlotte's 10th Birthday Celebration Solo trip. For those who don't know this Disney Family, we take each girl on their own solo trip to The Disneyland Resort for their 10th Birthday. If you haven't read my previous TRs, you should probably do so now. We never hold back and have an ABSOLUTE BLAST on every trip. NO SISTERS!!! We start in Phoenix, where Amy's little sister flew in to watch the other two girls while we were on our trip. She took the other two to school, and we left the house shortly thereafter...sorta.
4/11/2019...7:53 AM... We FINALLY left... after numerous we forgot this, we forgot that, let's take one more potty break, etc....
Charlotte folded both of the second row captain's chairs so she'd have a mini-living room to stretch out in waaaaay back in the 3rd row of the Axiom.
A quick mile and a half on surface streets, and we jumped on the I10, and headed West!!
Traffic in Downtown Phoenix where we call home was surprisingly light!
We settled in, and made for the last fuel stop in AZ, where we always fuel, bathroom, and food, before we enter CA!!
Amy occupied herself with sewing Char's Stitch Ears for the coming Sunday.
9:43 AM, we hit Ehrenberg and the Flying J where we always fuel. This is a common sight with a 6000#, 450HP luxobarge which we affectionately call the Axiom after WALL-E.
12.78 gallons refilled after the 148 mile trip didn't bode well due to the substantial headwind we were running against (11.6MPG running on 91 octane). I try NEVER to fuel in CA due to their ridiculous fuel prices largely due to the tax, but we'd figure it out. At 9:52, we were back on the road, fueled, dead insects cleaned off the windshield, and some food in our stomachs. Imagine my joy when I found that the headwind we had faced all the way from Phoenix, quickly dropped off, and I was able to post some respectable fuel economy.
Feeling happy that we were getting closer..
Nearing Indo and the wind farms..
After we got off the 10, and onto the 60 by Hinda, I noticed that I'd NEVER seen those hills that green. Here's to hoping CA has a mild fire season.
FINALLY, we are getting close!!!
I'll never get used to the site of Guardians... BLECH.
Char is back awake and getting excited!!
Oh how I wish they had just demolished Paradise Pier Hotel and put the third gate which would be a combined Star Wars/Marvel land on that property... could have connected it with tunnels...
Here was our turn. Been a few trips since we've stayed at our CA home, Disney's Grand Californian Hotel and Spa.
We gave our name, and pulled straight through. It was oddly not busy.
We relatively quickly valeted and put our 12 bags (yes, 12 items, for 3 people for 4 days) on the Bell cart, and made our way inside... so happy to finally be home. I couldn't help one look back at that favorite porte-cochère I love so much.
4/11/2019...7:53 AM... We FINALLY left... after numerous we forgot this, we forgot that, let's take one more potty break, etc....
Charlotte folded both of the second row captain's chairs so she'd have a mini-living room to stretch out in waaaaay back in the 3rd row of the Axiom.
A quick mile and a half on surface streets, and we jumped on the I10, and headed West!!
Traffic in Downtown Phoenix where we call home was surprisingly light!
We settled in, and made for the last fuel stop in AZ, where we always fuel, bathroom, and food, before we enter CA!!
Amy occupied herself with sewing Char's Stitch Ears for the coming Sunday.
9:43 AM, we hit Ehrenberg and the Flying J where we always fuel. This is a common sight with a 6000#, 450HP luxobarge which we affectionately call the Axiom after WALL-E.
12.78 gallons refilled after the 148 mile trip didn't bode well due to the substantial headwind we were running against (11.6MPG running on 91 octane). I try NEVER to fuel in CA due to their ridiculous fuel prices largely due to the tax, but we'd figure it out. At 9:52, we were back on the road, fueled, dead insects cleaned off the windshield, and some food in our stomachs. Imagine my joy when I found that the headwind we had faced all the way from Phoenix, quickly dropped off, and I was able to post some respectable fuel economy.
Feeling happy that we were getting closer..
Nearing Indo and the wind farms..
After we got off the 10, and onto the 60 by Hinda, I noticed that I'd NEVER seen those hills that green. Here's to hoping CA has a mild fire season.
FINALLY, we are getting close!!!
I'll never get used to the site of Guardians... BLECH.
Char is back awake and getting excited!!
Oh how I wish they had just demolished Paradise Pier Hotel and put the third gate which would be a combined Star Wars/Marvel land on that property... could have connected it with tunnels...
Here was our turn. Been a few trips since we've stayed at our CA home, Disney's Grand Californian Hotel and Spa.
We gave our name, and pulled straight through. It was oddly not busy.
We relatively quickly valeted and put our 12 bags (yes, 12 items, for 3 people for 4 days) on the Bell cart, and made our way inside... so happy to finally be home. I couldn't help one look back at that favorite porte-cochère I love so much.