Day 26 - Acton, California KOA

MIL decided to stay at the motorhome today and rest up for tomorrow's tour of the Warner Brothers Studio. A three hour tour, in Burbank, California.

The road the campground is on, is this very winding road with numerous hair pin turns and a double yellow line. The speed limit is 55mph. The California residents have been passing us on the double yellow line constantly. Its crazy!

Traffic is nightmarish to say the least. We can't imagine making this commute everyday! So far so good on, no earthquakes.

We decided to extend out stay one more day so it wouldn't be pure madness tomorrow (Saturday). The original plan was to drive to Burbank in the morning which is 60 minutes away from the campground with no traffic. Take the tour from 9-12. Drive back to the campground, pack up and drive 292 miles to Yosemite which is approximately a 6 hour drive. Can be longer if we stop for diesel or groceries. So instead we are leaving on Sunday. We are are scheduled to arrive in Yosemite area on Sunday and leave in Tuesday and then push for home. After talking to the campground staff about staying an extra day, we also asked them how long ago the fire that devastated the area was. The KOA rep said the campground tenters were evacuated on July 23, the RVs and staff were evacuated on July 24th and July 29th was when the fire came over the mountain.

Today we had the second half of our Hop On Hop Off double decker bus tour with Starline. Instead of driving all the way to the Santa Monica Pier again I chose one of the stops in West Hollywood. We decided just to do the yellow and red tours today which combined was 4 hours plus we stopped midway which happened to be around the Santa Monica Pier area again for Lunch.

I chose stop 15 on the red tour which happened to be in front of a Starline ticket office. After waiting for about 10 minutes the lady in the store told us to come inside and wait. We could sit and wait. She asked me what stop we got on at, and then I explained that this was our second day. So she had me come over and explain with the map. I said we just did the green tour yesterday. She couldn't believe we only did the green tour. So then I explained we got a late start. We bought the tickets at the Santa Monica Pier, walked up the big hill, waited for the bus, rode to Marina Del Rey, had lunch, ran across the parking lot to catch a bus, got off, walked down the big hill, walked up and down the pier, and we were done! She understood. She told us a funny thing about the Gruaman's Chinese Theater and the Hollywood Stars. Apparently, Donald Trump has a star on the walk of fame due to The Apprentice & The Celebrity Apprentice TV Shows. The problem is that people against him, keep egging his Star. So eventually the red bus came and we thanked her for her hospitality.

We decided to do a giant loop, starting with Red Tour, transferring to the Yellow Tour, follow the yellow loop and transferring back to the rest of the Red Tour. Basically it was a figure 8. From a distance we saw the HOLLYWOOD sign up on the hill., Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, Fox studios, Screen Actors Guild building, Producers Guild buildings, City Hall, places movies or TV Shows were filmed, UCLA, and a lot more! The funny thing is DH must have yanked my ear phones out at least 10 times by accident. I have small ear canals and it doesn't take much to yank out the ear phones. In fact I have to sometimes hold them in my ear. Well today I had just as much trouble keeping my baseball style hat on as I had yesterday with my cowgirl hat.

Today we had lunch at the Blue Plate Taco restaurant on Pacific Avenue. I had lobster tacos and DH had a steak quesadilla. Both were delicious! There were two guys next to us baking in the sun. I suggested they move their table closer to ours to move out of the sun.
They said they requested that spot, so it was their own fault, but did move closer to us. They thanked us. I noticed they ordered ice so I did too for us. The ice made a world of difference! After lunch we hopped back on the yellow tour and then the red. My phone only holds a certain amount of photos before it won't allow me to take any more. So once I post them to Facebook or upload them to Dropbox, I delete them from my phone. So even though I meant to bring my Canon Rebel EOS camera, I walked off without it. I also left my selfie stick in the MDX.

Traffic wasn't quite as bad as yesterday getting back. We stopped at the campground and picked up MIL and then we went to the local grocery store.