My very last family road trip... Even after we had air conditioning in the car, we always had to cross the desert in the middle of the night. (Before A/C, that was essential!) And to get anywhere eastwards, one must cross the desert. This time I think the idea was to all get a bit of sleep at the family cabin, about 140 miles to the east and then crack on.
Re: the Rainbow; they used to play the best music, mostly glam stuff, but disco had started creeping in. Eric, the Marc Bolan-looking guy I met in the 1976 entry and who had since started DJing there, had great taste in music but I guess this Japanese-American DJ did not.
16 July 1977
We were gonna leave at 9 am but they changed it to 2 pm. So I talked to Tiger, Jade, Marie and Jerry, and went over to Susan's. I asked Marie who the DJ had been [she and Jade had gone to the Rainbow last night and from the following I assume the music had been bad ], if he had blondish brown or black hair. She said dark brown and I said, "Was he Japanese?" and she said she thought so. So I thought it was that guy cause he plays bad stuff, but Jade said it was Eric!! Japanese???!
So we left at 2:00 and went to Pinyon Crest. I didn't sleep there at all. We set off at 11:30 and ate dinner at Sambo's in Indio. Then drove all night. I slept off and on. We stopped at some rest stop just before dawn and had to stay there two hours! It was so hot there I couldn't sleep and the bathrooms were ultra gross.
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