Monday was our shortest travel day of the trip. We left Sacramento at 10:30 and we arrived in Oakland at 3pm. However, we made a few stops along the way. We discovered that the Jelly Belly factory is located in Fairfield CA and it was less than a mile off I-80. We had to stop. We had a 40 minute tour of the factory and then spent another 40 minutes in the gift shop where they give out free samples and sell the rejected jelly beans. They call them "belly flops".
When we left the factory, we decided that we were hungry. We took a wrong turn trying to get to a restaurant that we saw off the highway and we ended up on the Napa Valley. We got to see the grapes growing along the road and we were able to eat a California legend at In-N-Out Burger.
We found our way back to the highway and passed the Matson shipping center in the Oakland area. Our goods went through Long Beach, but it was neat to see all the containers stacked up and the loading cranes like the ones that loaded our stuff.
After we arrived at the hotel, we found a place to get the car cleaned for its journey on the Matson ship. We drop it off on Tuesday and hopefully we'll have it in Hawaii in a couple of weeks.
Tuesday will be a busy day of errands picking up the rental car, dropping the Cruiser and doing internet check-in for our flight.
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