"Morris? It's Tom. I'm here to help you."

I took some time the other day to try and work out a route on my GPS, a TomTom OneXL. I wasn't going to bring it, but it really saved the day in Vancouver last week and now I don't think I can travel without it. Working out the route was fairly annoying on the device, seeing as how Morris has a lot of special needs. It's not just as easy as saying "Go to Mexico" like it would be in almost any other vehicle.

The trickiest part was San Fransisco. We had to do two things here, cross the Golden Gate bridge, and drive down Lombard Street. There was no real way to tell TomTom that, and then once it was done, TomTom liked to auto route back to the I5 and down to San Diego. We cannot take the I5 through California. We figure it's going to be much to dangerous in a car like Morris.

So I just sort of guessed my way back to what I thought would be a good highway and went from there. TomTom says it is going to take us a solid 36.5 hours of driving. That's no traffic, no stops, just continuous driving of Morris. So it's for sure going to take like 2 days to get there. We figure, I think anyway, that we will just drive until we hit California, and if it's not dark, we keep going until it is.

On the plus side, I know where every 7/11 in the United States is. Plus all the major travel centre's with pay showers, and all the Wal-Mart's where we can sleep for free in the car without being bothered.

I honestly think I'll go back to San Fransisco though, maybe next year. I don't really care if it's touristy. I'd love to do the 49-Mile Scenic Drive. I mean just look at this fucking palace. Plus of course, one of my favourite videogames being Rush 2049, I really want to drive some of the streets that inspired the tracks, and see the locations for myself.

This is going to take a loooooooooong time.

-steve