July 15, 2005
Home from the NACR, Day 1
We left Huntington Lake early and headed to Los Angeles. The traffic there is really awful. It took us a long time to get to Costa Mesa, but we managed to get there by 2pm.
Proctor is an interesting place. They make good spars, but they are not very communicative. When we arrived, I found that the booms were not done and the reason was that the only extrusions they had were damaged. The damage was only cosmetic, so I had one boom made at a 10% discount. The mast butt on one mast was not available, so they will need to send that to me. The boom I’m bringing home will be used by Jim W. if he so chooses. If he wants, we will trade him. The damage is cosmetic, so I doubt it will be a problem. We finally got out of there around 5pm, two hours later than we had hoped. We made it to Kathy’s brother’s house in Corona. The problem with California is that you have to pay to use a toll road that is like a non toll road during rush hour in Houston. We moved so slowly, it took us an hour to go 10 miles. We finally got to their house and had a nice visit.
Our speed through LA traffic is apparent from this:
