Set up mobile posting for the blog

A few more hours left!

Last-minute wrapping up and we're off to the train station.

Set up data access today with our cellular provider so we can post from the road. Thanks to promotional deals, when you sign up for $5/month for 1MB internet, or $3/month for sending of 20 multimedia messages, each of these services has the first month unlimited access! Is that a perfect time frame, or what?? Hehe. We can post to the blog by e-mail, so I just want to be able to do e-mail offline, log on for 5 minutes and do my send/receive, then sign off. These plans I signed up for couldn't possibly be more perfect.

This is gonna be so awesome!!!

Los Angeles, California - inclement weather

Just in case anyone is under the illusion that we never get inclement weather here...

...these are all from today.


Heavy hailstorm


Streets flooded up over the sidewalk


The river that was the 60 freeway onramp - Hacienda Blvd.

While I will grant you that this isn't our usual weather, it's not like we haven't seen it hail before. Just not this hard. I've seen really heavy rain before, but I've never seen the skies just open up quite like that. It started as sheets of rain, then suddenly came down with hail just as hard. The streets were instantly flooded, and we knew if we didn't get out of there soon we were going to have a stalled engine.

Maybe God wanted to prepare us for the weather we're going to experience on our trip? LOL