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Personal Narrative: Yay Road Trip To California

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Imagine 2 days before Christmas sitting at the table with your parents, what would you be talking about? Lucky for me my parents were talking about going on a trip to California as a family. Yay Road Trip! While in California we did many things from going to the beach to going to Hollywood! The trip to California was exhausting. We left Christmas morning around 7:00 in the morning.The fog barley let us see the road for a few hours, but it was super beautiful. We were all very crammed in the back. My brother was sitting to the left, me in the middle, and my sister to the right. Of course since I was the youngest I got stuck in the middle. The car ride took two days to get there.We went through Colorado,Utah,Arizona, Nevada, and finally we got to California. Colorado was probably the most difficult time going to California. There was a blizzard in Colorado and it was the middle of the night.The sight of the snow falling while going in the middle of the mountains was impeccable. The only …show more content…

“What are we doing today?” I asked “we are going to go and explore Hollywood first.” My mom replied. I was thrilled to be able to explore Hollywood! We headed down to the lobby and we had the best breakfast ever. The had everything you could ever want for breakfast there. I had bacon, hash browns, a bagel with cream cheese, an omelet and coffee. After the mouth watering breakfast we headed to the car and got comfortable for the 1 hour and 32 minute drive to Hollywood. I found it peculiar that we seemed to be headed to the wrong direction. I was so distracted with the alluring view of all of California that I wasn't able to notice that we were headed somewhere else. “Where are we headed to?” I asked sounding a little perplexed. “We are taking a little detour before we head directly to Hollywood.” replied my dad appearing a little too

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