On Saturday morning I’ll be heading for my new life in SoCal! I’m looking forward to a clean slate although I’ll miss the friends I’m leaving behind.
I’ll be leaving the Greater Houston area and making my way west via I-10. Planned stops are in Alpine, TX and Tucson, AZ. I’ve an online friend in Tucson whom I’ve never met in person. We’ve been chatting for 11 years and I finally get to meet her and her family. When I leave AZ I’ll head for Santa Monica and then Huntington Beach. LA Dopers, looks like I’ll be there around Wednesday.
I’d appreciate any travel tips any of you are willing to share. I’ll be traveling alone the whole way, which makes me a little nervous but not too much. I bought a new air filter tonight and a can of fix-a-flat. I’ve got 2 spares, full-size and donut. I can change a tire in under 10 minutes unless the guys at the shop over tightened the lugnuts.
I’ve got road flares, a battery charger/jump starter, antifreeze, jugs of water, oil, DOT 3 fluid, windshield wiper fluid, 1 gallon of gas in one of my 2 gas cans, an emergency blanket, a flashlight, a first aid kit, I even have a marker and some posterboard to make a sign if I have to…am I forgetting anything? It’s a 1500 mile trip and something is bound to go wrong at some point. Hell, last week I didn’t even make it 70 miles during The Great Effed-Up Rita Evacuation.