Apr
20
2005

Santa Ana

PhotosWednesday, April 20, 2005 - 09:29:29 pm
(Posted Under: Travel, Arizona Trip)
The drive towards Santa Ana was reasonably eventless, until we hit Los Angeles - which truely is the rat race it is reknown for. Being from a big city myself, even I was shocked at the bumper to bumper traffic - on the interstate! Truely crazy.

We finally headed south to Santa Ana. We'd actually arrived a day early, and so we had no hotel booked, and the one we had for tomorrow and the night after had no vacencies. So we drove around, trying to find one, Katie wanting to just be anywhere after all of the driving. We eventually pulled into a gas station, and Katie phoned her family to do an internet search / booking. The Jensen's camee up with The Days Inn. We got the address, and headed out there. It turned out to be on the same road as the booking we had for the next two nights. However, I started to become dubious about the situation as we drove further and further into what looked like the wrong side of town. We eventually hit the Days Inn, which actually didn't look that bad. We got a room, and took the car around. On opening the door, my first thought was "should I really have used my credit card".

The place was an absolute crap shack. Katie was glad to be anywhere, but at the same time was quite upset. After reassuring her that it was going to be okay, and agreeing that we weren't going to look for dead bodies under the bed, because we didn't want to know what we were going to find, we decided to go out and eat. Appropriately, we found a Denny's and ate there. It had been on our list of things to do, so that was good, but I was really concerned that Katie's car was still going to be where we'd parked it.

After eating, we headed back, pulled out some clothes to sleep on (above the covers). Watching the news was interesting, hearing about the highway shootings on the I-10, where we were headed tomorrow.

I really had thought that Katie was fairly okay with the crap shack. However, it became apparent at 7am the next morning with her tugging on my arm saying "Maaaaark, can we goooooooo?!?!?", that her seemingly contentness last night was purely tiredness! She didn't have to ask me twice!!

Santa Ana / Crap Shack photos. Most of them illistrate how bad the place was (though, in highensight the photos don't really show how craptastic it was), and the last one is a nod to living the white trash lifestle. [wink] Not hard at all to do in that place!

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