In the morning we drove north up the Trans Peninsular Highway and made it to Encenada late in the afternoon. I have a favorite motel on the south end of town that we stayed in on the way down. But Andrea Wolf thought that it was too expensive so on the way north she lead the way to a place in the middle of town. This place turned out to be less expensive, nicer, and closer to everything in Encenada! We walked to our favorite taco place next to the Gigante Super Mercado. We bought “Tres Leches” at a bakery and at the Mercado and did A-B testing to see which of them made this desert best. Several of us wandered around Encenada looking for a famous bar named Hussongs. We found three different tourist stores called Hussong’s Offical Outlet Store and bought T shirts. If we found three, there must be more of these trinket shops everywhere in Encendada! Finally we found the bar itself which was a bit of a let-down. But we sat down and had a drink so we could say that we had been there.
The next morning we skipped breakfast and drove up Highway 3 to Tecate to avoid the awful, poorly designed border crossing in Tijuana. Rather than spend hours waiting in multiple lines to cross there we drove between lines of trucks waiting to cross at Tecate and did not have to wait at all. We drove north through California only stopping for a late breakfast / early lunch at a restaurant in the Los Angeles area. Andrea Wolf, Herb Howe and Don continued up I5 while the rest of us (Doug Hamilton, Kate DesLauriers and I) cut across to Highway 101 to drop Doug and his gear off in San Jose. I dropped Kate off in Santa Rosa and made it home to my own house just before midnight on Friday evening.