Day 07 (Saturday, July 5th)

From: Philomath, OR
To: San Jose, CA
Miles: 605
Time in the car: 12 hours
Weather conditions: Mostly sunny
Traffic conditions: Good
Break down: 1
Number of stops: 4
Todays road:

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Day07

Events:
09:00 AM, Leaving Philomath, OR
12:56 PM, Crossing border to California
05:40 PM, Car broke down
09:00 PM, Arrived in San Jose, CA

Early wake up with the family to start with some coffee and a nice breakfast: for the occasion, Glenn cooked some small pieces of deer and elk, very tasty :) Galen left to go to work and we stayed there talking a little bit before starting to prepare the car for a big day on the road. With Glenn, we checked the car (oil, tire pressure...), everything ready, it was time to say goodbye. I have to say I was really sad with that little thing in the throat!!

Glenn, Deanna, Galen, THANK YOU so much for your hospitality, my friends and I had a really good time and I was really happy to see you again! I was looking forward for this step of our trip. Time went really fast for this moment with you, because it was a good one!! I am now looking forward to see you again! Already!!!! (PS, I left a little something for you in the house! Did you find out?)

I started driving with a little tear in my eyes! Heading South. Matthieu took over after he finished his night in the car! We stopped for lunch in Mount Shasta, a mountain 14162 feet high). There was a street fair in the city, we walked around and saw some real hippies! Quick lunch and we got back on the road.

While I was sleeping, Pifi woke me up a bit nervous asking why the car wasn’t responding to the gas pedal, why the oil light was on and why the brake pedal wasn’t doing anything ... So I asked him to move to the tight lane and pull over on the emergency lane. A quick check revealed that we were out of gas :( Pifi asked me before if we shouldn’t fill up as we were at a quarter of the tank. Looks like our gauge has a little problem because it should have last much longer! The engine just stopped while driving without giving us the gas warning light. We called AAA, ine the next 15 minutes, somebody was here to give us 3 gallons of gas and we went back on the road!! (and fill up the tank!). Nice story we needed to have for this trip! And it finished in a good way even if I got very scared and a bit pissed at that moment!!

We arrived in San Jose at our friend’s place: Nat welcomed us with his wife. We had a Korean diner and we went then in a bar / club for a drink and see the night life in this city!! See the pics, we enjoyed it :D