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So I mentioned in my last post about the snow that Kerry and I were headed somewhere, but I didn’t say where. Every year around this time is the USA Sevens tournament and this year Kerry and I are joining the rest of her family to go to San Diego and watch the tournament.

The Sevens is a small format Rugby tournament designed (I believe) to make for faster play. But don’t take my word on it. I am by no means a Rugby fan.

So shortly after leaving Cameron Park Kerry and I made a stop in Folsom for some food and fuel. We met up with Mark, Liz and Candice and set out for San Diego. Kerry did most of the driving. We alternated a couple time but I can’t seem to go for more than a couple hours without my right knee starting to hurt.

The drive down was mostly uneventful which isn’t rare of Interstate 5 through central California. We did hit snow over the Grapevine though which was pretty cool.

I was able to listen to about a quarter of book four in the wheel of time series during the drive. I expect I will finish the book on the way home and get a few chapters into the fifth.

The biggest news of the trip was our passing through LA. Kerry’s GPS doesn’t do traffic so it routed us straight through on I5 which was a mistake. It took us almost 4 hours to pass through. Partially due to it being Friday and rush hour and partially from bad weather.

We got to the hotel at about 9:30, roughly 11 hours after we left Cameron Park. We are staying at the Lafayette Hotel in San Diego which is only a few minutes from PETCO Park where the rugby matches are held. After a short time getting settled in the hotel, the group of us headed up the street to Denny’s for dinner. We had a live CSI show at the coin shop next door where apparently somebody tried to rob the place earlier in the day. Mostly though it was just a bunch of cops standing around.

After dinner we all pretty much retired to bed. It’s amazing how draining it can be to simply drive all day. I stayed up a bit processing the pictures from the day and watching Road Trip on HBO until about midnight when my eyes simply wouldn’t stay open any longer.