Day 55 –Wednesday 3rd July 2013 - Los Angeles – 2 Miles.

Up early again as we had to have the van back at Escape Campers by 8.30 am and get back to the motel before our friends arrived.
The trip to the depot only took a few minutes in the early morning traffic. On the way I asked my wife a question.
If we were to keep the van for another month, where would we go from here?
Her reply was, I don’t know.
Mission accomplished.

I don’t think I could have spent anymore time on the road as what we had done. I was not enjoying the driving on the last few days as I normally do. It would have been a different story if we were still out on the road exploring.

But being in Los Angeles I think we felt ready to head home to our family and see the three grandsons again.
The beauty of the internet was we were able to talk to them on Skype and tell them what we were up to.

We dropped the van off and completed the paper work before catching a taxi back to the motel.
We were really pleased with the van and if we were to do it again I would not hesitate using them. It served our purpose and we couldn’t fault the van or the service from Escape Campers.

Back at the motel we met up with some friends who had come down from Fresno for the day.
We did a bit of touring around Los Angeles before finding a nice Italian Café near Venice Beach.
I had been to Venice beach on our last trip but didn’t get to for a walk along the beachfront and markets. I did this time and it was certainly an eye opener.










Before heading back to the motel we found a factory seconds outlet and purchased another suitcase for the trip home.
We spent the next few hours sorting and packing until we had it what we thought was OK. But it still looked like we had too much. There was no way I getting any more luggage.