Saturday, July 4, 2015

This might have been the longest day of my life..

All started well and amusing at the SF airport... We quickly got a car at around Noon (could have been the top story on it's own, that process, but on such a day...), and started making our way towards Highway 1... Normally this drive should take just over 1.5 hours, but apparently Americans love to drive on 4th of July weekends, so we got to Monterrey (more or less the start of the amazing pacific road) at roughly 4:30 PM...
Had a quick lunch, were told by the locals we will be driving 10~ more hours (instead of 6-7) cause of traffic, started considering our options and decided we gonna go trough with it, as it kinda sucks skipping a pre-booked hotel...

Highway 1 is AMAZING. It's perfect. I'd spend a week there ez. I might just do that before November 9 (which I'd be a part of, ofc). Also traffic got way better quickly, and by 8PM we were already out and on our way to LA with 4 hours of driving left according to our GPS.
What I didn't anticipate at this point, is not having a single gas station over the course of the next 2.5 hours...

In the middle of no where (highway 46 if anyone knows), we started running really short, and I started getting super worried... Than BAM - Gaz station shown on the GPS. Got there. Gonna laxxx now.
Shit, Card doesn't go trough and store is closed.
Panic attack (first I had since December 8th, 2011). Mrs tilt tries to calm me down. I'm already considering calling for rescue.

Couple guys drive by tell me there's another station few miles down the way. We are not sure we have couple miles left (we are at 0 a while already).
Nothing works so we decide to gamble and go for it.
We find a station and manage to fuel-up literally on the 98th minute of injury time...

We get to our hotel in LA at 1 AM.

Totals:

13 hours on the road.
425 Miles I drove in one day - That's 680 KM~. <Eilat to Metula (south point to north point of Israel) is around 520KM~>
1 Panic attack.
1. Mrs tilt who needs compensation...

Funny that this is our official US trip song...

Happy 4th of July to all my American friends!

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