Day 24 - Monday, April 11 - San Diego, CA to Alhambra, CA

Starting mileage:  79756 Starting time: 1:30 pm
Ending mileage: 79873 Ending time: 3:30 pm
Travel mileage:  117 Travel time: 2:00 hours

Looks like it will be a beautiful day.

A very busy morning. Around 8:30 I went over to Amy's to connect the GFI outlet by her crawlspace entrance and the junction box inside before turning off the power. Then I went to Costco and used Amy's card to get gas at only $5.29/gallon but even so, paid $75 for gas, the most ever for us. Then to Home Depot to return the PVC cement I didn't use and buy a storage container to move gravel into Amy's crawlspace.

I picked Carmen up at Anna's on the way back. We put down landscaping fabric over Amy's "lake" in the crawlspace and put down several inches of gravel. Carmen would put about 10lbs into the storage container, push it through the crawlspace opening, I dragged it over and dumped it.

Then I turned the power off for the house and connected the power to the new outlets - fortunately it all worked!

I finished at 12:30 and we had a very quick lunch at Amy's as we wanted to leave at 1pm. We zipped back to Anna's, picked up the laundry in the dryer, packed up and left by 1:30.

The traffic on the I-5 was typically heavy but moved along at 75 most of the way. We got to Surana and Nic's house just after 3:30.

We had a nice evening with Nic, Surana, Mia and Mathias. We got delicious take-out Indonesian food for dinner.

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