May 31, 2014 | Palm Springs, CA

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Well, on this auto-take at least I got Eli in the portrait.
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The man himself. He had other vintage/antique cars aboard both “below and upstairs.”
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Other vehicles aboard
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Eli’s rig
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Eli inspects car for any physical dings
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Inspection for self-protection (Eli’s and mine). He found some small dings (scars from curbside “butterfly kisses”)
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Eli’s 16-wheeler
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Pool at Palm Springs Hilton
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Palm topiary: pipe cleaner?
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Suggest Spa Special
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Sherman’s Deli, Palm Springs, 9am. Nice place for a lox and veggies breakfast. Notice the little hydrator valves, which send a mist of H2O your way to mitigate the arid desert heat.

Well, today I bid adieu to the darling vehicle that’s been serving so well on this cross-country trip. That means, of course, that I’m throwing in the towel about 2 hours west of San Juan Capistrano, which would’ve been the first coastal destination in California. Left on May 1, today is May 31, and it’s time to come home––not drive back through Los Estados Unidos again on that higher latitude supercharger loop through the same 40 or so stations.

As a first-time flatbed user, I had some difficulty about engaging a transport company online. Eli of ELT Auto Transport arrived today, and after meeting him, getting the requisite documentation, and talking with him at length I feel comfortable handing him the key to the most expensive vehicle for which I’ll ever be in debt [at least I’d thought so at the time of this composition]. Eli has his own single-vehicle trucking company––as, apparently, do 80% of the car-transport drivers in the states.

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