Well route 1 between LA and San Francisco is breathtaking.  It was worth enduring the switchbacks and narrow road.  We will be posting pictures of us cooking while at an overlook, I am so grateful to be traveling with such a free spirit.
  I have been in more restrooms than I care to be in, but I am very grateful that they are there.  Going cross country requires that one be creative in how they manage "activities of daily living" for all you medical people."  There has not been one bathroom in which I have not had water running down my arm to my elbows before I could dry my hands.  Why are the blowers and paper towel holders 4 feet above the floor??? I avoid the hand blowers whenever possible as they are so loud that I am afraid of loosing my hearing by the time I hit Rochester.   When I do use them it is usually to dry my wet sleeves.
  I am having such a good time and great experiences which is what it is all about. I love the USA. (except perhaps Oklahoma ,upper Texas, and Arkansas, for hundreds and hundreds of miles we saw nothing but nothing as far as the eye can see,)   However, in California along route 1 I have seen beached elephant seals, zebras, etc, along with the most stunning views possible.