Malam tu, yg jadi driver adalah KK. Aku duk seat belakang jer.... aku difahamkn, the journey would take about 8 hours to reach Lake Tahoe. Normally for a long trip, we switch drivers just to be fair. So supposedly back seat passengers should take this time to sleep. Tapi ak xboleh tdoq... pasal ak teruja kaw2... haha... Lama da ak teringin nk travel using U.S. freeway nie.. Rugi lorh kalau wa tido.. Cuma waktu malam xnmpak sgt la permandangan... lolz.
Dec 7th, 2013
After about 4 hours, halfway of the journey, we stopped at ARCO gas station to fill up the gas, settle a 'small business' at the restroom, buy some stuff, etc...Some of the stuff that I bought are a lip balm, to avoid my lip from getting too dry, and a sunglasses. I bought a cheap one only, around 10 bucks. But it still did a good job of protecting my eyes from the bright shining sun. Then we continued our journey. This time, the driver was Wah Seng. Tapi ak still duk belakang lagi.. So still can relax2 lorh.. haha
Masa nie baru lah ak dpt lelap kejap. Maybe dalam 30 minutes kot. But then psl ada problem ckit dengan gathering point, kitorang berhenti lagi kt ARCO. Tapi xtau kt area mana masa tu. Probably Sacramento. Isi minyak lagi, kasi full and then gerak g McD for breakfast. Menu kt sini sumer ak xleh mkn, except pancake and hash brown jer... Pastu baru kitorang teruskan perjalanan. Kali ni ak plak drive, tapi untuk kereta Chevy Cruze. Owner kereta nie Zainal. So basicaly, he's the only person who 'can' drive in that car. His wife needs to take car of their children. Ak switch driver ngan dia supaya dia boleh relax2.
Waktu nie lbey kurang pukol 6 pagi. Ni lah first time ak driving on a long journey. Dalam perjalanan tu, scenery dia da tukaq skit. Ada bukit2, and snowy2 ckit. Masa nie ak tetiba rasa familiar. Tetiba ada "GAME" moment. Rasa cam dalam GTA plak. Sangat cool. Haha.. Makin ak drive further, makin putih scenery. Snow makin banyak. That was quite a 'WOWZA' moment for me. Before we reach Lake Tahoe town, we need to pass by a small town. Ak xigt nama town tu la, but the environment is quite nice. At least lain dari scenery kt Irvine. We proceed again our journey, but need to stop again because the road over there was covered by snow. So we need to install tyre chains on our car. It was quite hard actually to setup the chains, pasal kitorang xpenah ada pengalaman pun psang before this. Dah tertonggeng2 ak ngan Zainal nk pasang benda alah tu. Nak pasang pun kena bukak glove, psl lagi senang kalau x pakai glove. Tapi tangan jadi beku la makan dia... but it gets easier when we finally know the proper way to setup it.
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| This is how a tyre chain looks |
Bila da setel pasang tu, baru lah kitorang teruskan perjalananan. "Geduk Geduk Geduk.." bunyi kereta sebab tyre chain punya pasal. kalau bawak slow, gegor jer kereta... (gegor tu begegar).... and then xboley bawak laju2.. kena slow2.. dalam 20mph-30mph jer... sebab takut tyre chain tercabut or tayar pancit... lolz.. so even ada lagi 55 miles nak smpi Lake Tahoe town, but it took about 2 hours to get there. Then, dtg lagi "GAME" moment....rasa nak ber'FUS RO DAH' jer.. if you get what I mean.. haha...
Scenery makin lama makin putih.... and then also got snow shower some more. Ak rasa sgt2 teruja bila first time dpt tengok scenery cmni.. Alhamdulillah....
Tapi, pasal bwk perlahan sgt, ak jadi makin ngantok.. 20 minit perjalanan dapat cover 1-3 miles jer.. haha..
and then psl kitorang bawak slow sgt, sampai byk kereta yg follow belakang kitorang.. hangin jer dworang agaknya.. haha.. biasa local kat sini pkai 4 wheels jer.. dworang bley bawak laju.. tapi hari ni, dworang terpaksa tahan sabaq follow dua kereta foreigner yang slow... (satu lagi kereta, Dodge, dah tertinggal belakang..) Sampai satu tahap, one of the local hilang kesabaran, iman x kuat, terus potong bila ada peluang.. and then siap sempat gave middle finger kat kitorang.. lolz...
And then, finally......~~~
TO BE CONTINUED....
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