The worst thing though is that I am running out of power. I know now how Mad Max the Road Warrior felt. I had a back-up battery for the phone, two chargers (mains and 12 V) and a charging cable, all in the check-in luggage. I bought a 12 V charger today for charging the phone while I am driving. I have the offline maps of California in my Lumia 1020, but apparently Here Drive software eats a lot of juice because the phone is in power saving mode after navigation, even if it is plugged in to a charger. So driving doesn't get my phone charged. And I am expecting a phone call from my airline. I have diverted the calls to Minna's phone now.
Tomorow is Wednesday. We're in Santa Monica now. In the http://baysidehotel.com/, with a seaview. And my car is parked in a place where it is forbidden to park between 7 am and 9 am on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. After 9 am it is possible to park for 5 h. But because tomorrow is Wednesday, the car has to go somewhere for two hours. And, what I've noticed, most of the parking spaces are like that.
We took a 5-minute walk to the end of the road today. Route 66, The Mother Road. I need to reread The Grapes of Wrath. Santa Monica Pier looked exactly like in the movie 1941 http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1941_(film), except that the roller coaster was intact. I played a game of The Getaway http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=1000 in the arcade because there was a broken bumber (insider tip from a fellow gamer) in the Addams Family http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Addams_Family_(pinball).
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