West Coast Help

All the Vegas weekenders from SoCal are going home. Last time we did it, we crawled practically all the way to San Bernardino. The four-hour drive took nearly seven hours. We opted for a quick In-N-Out stop in Barstow on a Sunday at 4 p.m. and the place was so packed it took at least a half hour to get our food.

 

Good to know.

Also, how's the drive? The finance is a little scared about driving through the desert, she doesn't want to get lost. Is it a straight shoot with a decent amount of highway signs? We'll have a GPS so the navigation should be straight forward enough.

 

You can't get lost on that drive.

 

You can't get lost until you get into the L.A. metropolitan area. Then you will probably get lost.

 

It would be virtually impossible to get lost, no matter how hard you try. It's a big fat highway in a straight line with nothing else around.

 

The only conceivable way to get lost would be to somehow detour off the 15 onto the 58 toward Bakersfield. That would put you on a 60-mile odyssey through nothingness (save for the Barstow "suburb" of Hinkley, made famous in "Erin Brockovich") that would eventually lead you to the crossroads town of Mojave.

There, you'd merely go south on the 14 for 70 miles and be back on the way toward Los Angeles. Actually, it's a quicker way to get to the Westside and SF Valley.

Not to mention it would take you through my digs

 

Then you could visit the singing road (or what's left of it) over and over and over and over and over and over again.