The Drive to Palm Desert

Spring Break meant a Road Trip for the

Brockbank Forced Family Fun 2011.
We started out from home and
headed down I-15 for California.
With our trusty GPS we were on our way!
(wondering how we used to go on trips
with a map or a TripTik from AAA.)
After leaving Las Vegas, our Trusty GPS directed us
to Highways 95, 62 and 177 which we drove for over 4 hours.

The roads looked like this for miles and miles and miles!
It was like riding a roller coaster in a car!
All along the way Blake kept us entertained by
letting us know when he saw a Call Box
(which was about every 2 miles.)
The scenery was the same as we drove
across the Mojave Desert.

As we turned onto Highway 177
there was a lone gas station and we decided
we would go until the next gas station.
Our Trusty GPS told us there was one along
the highway that we could easily reach.

When we got there it looked like this:
And our gas gauge looked like this:
Lots of silent prayers were said in the car
as the low gas indicator "dinged."

The Trusty GPS said there was no gas stations nearby.
But we were blessed as we came down US 10
and saw the gas station at Chiriaco Summit!

A verbal prayer of thanksgiving was offered at that point!!!

Next Forced Family Fun we need to remember:

Nothing is better on a Road Trip
than a full tank of gas!!

(You would have thought we learned our lesson
on the way to Palm Desert,
but on the way home we once again listened
to our Trusty GPS and drove home through
Yucca Valley on Highways 62 and 247.
We did keep the gas tank full for this drive!