Thursday 19thApril to Friday 19th April Just Started

Having spent about an hour trying to find where to type a draft,  offline, I've finally found everything listed under accessories so I can get started.  How this will copy to the blog page will of course be in the lap of the gods
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   A good flight out on Thursday 19th April leaving at 12 noon and arriving at 3.30pm the same day. California is 8 hours behind the UK.

   I was suprised to find we flew up UK and out over the Outer Hebrides, Harris to be exact then over Iceland, Greenland, Northern Canada down through central Canada just east of Calgary and then to Salt Lake City and on to destination of Los Angeles.

   North of Iceland and down to the American border some six hours or so say 3000 mile was totally snow or ice covered, we think we are unlucky with a few days of the white stuff!

   Taxi from airport to hotel some 18 miles $80  (times 2 and dived by 3 for approx £s) ie £53.  Freeways though are something else.

   Our first experience. in the taxi, was a five lane freeway  all the way to the hotel.  Outside lane for cars with two or more persons inside lane for singletons.  Outside lane doing 50 to 60 miles per hour most of the time inside lanes 10 to 20 mph stopped a lot of the  time.  One person one car we've heard it all before here was the proof that single  drivers in cars clog up the entire system and here
in LA this clogging goes on for most daylight hours on all major roads.

   Great sight whilst driving a woman flossing her teeth, marginally different to the many mobile phone users drinking coffee at the same time
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   Picked up the motorhome, RV here, and drove it, Friday now, to Buckingham RV Park which we had booked for 4 nights hoping it was close to Chris, Judith's nephew.  The drive along interstate 5 and other roads was horrendos.  The rv was larger than anticipated and the roads were concrete in terrible condition, lane widths constantly altering and inside lane or lanes turning off right without much notice so you had to get out across one or two lanes to continue on your way. Not easy
 on a six lane motorway totally full of cars and trucks moving at 50 to 60mph of stopped waiting to move.

   We got there.
 
   Our rv nemisis struck as soon as we arrived. water flowing over the floor of the van from an obvious split or damaged joint which sprayed water out whenever the water pump was used.  Easily identified but to rectify ment removing the complete shower cubicle under which the pipe ran.  Friday evening !!  no hope of getting anything done till Monday then the rv had to go back to base for the repair.