Z06 Shipped to Hawaii!
School Visit in La Jolla & a Cargo Flight to Honolulu
The Hawaii problem: You can't drive to Hawaii. But you still have to visit it if you're going to all 50 states. Ray's solution: ship the Z06 on a cargo flight, fly separately, reunite on Oahu, drive for a day, then fly home. Tomorrow: Honolulu.
Ray called Day 6 a "BIG day" — and it was. Three things had to happen in sequence, all before a cargo flight departed LAX: get the Z06 serviced, make a school visit in La Jolla, and drive the car to Los Angeles to hand it over to the cargo handlers. Miss any one of them and the whole Hawaii plan falls apart.
Everything went according to plan.
Photos from the Day
The Day's Events
Bob Stall Chevrolet — La Mesa, CA
First stop of the morning: Bob Stall Chevrolet in La Mesa for a full service on the Z06. Oil change, inspection, everything checked over before the car was handed off to a cargo handler. This was the same dealership where Ray had originally ordered the Corvette back in March — a fitting place to prep it for its most unusual leg yet.
Bird Rock Elementary — La Jolla, CA
Ray and Edward made a special detour to Bird Rock Elementary School in La Jolla to visit Amethyst's class — Amethyst being the daughter of Edward Sanchez, the webmaster who built and ran the ALL50 website throughout the trip. The kids got a close-up look at the Z06 and heard about the road trip firsthand. A highlight of the day.
Los Angeles — LAX Cargo
Ray and Edward drove the Z06 north to Los Angeles and delivered it to the cargo handlers at LAX. The Corvette was loaded onto a cargo flight bound for Honolulu, Hawaii. Ray would fly separately — owner and car on different planes, both headed for the same island. The plan: reunite at Honolulu Airport the next morning and spend one day driving around Oahu.
How Do You Ship a Corvette to Hawaii?
Carefully. The Z06 was delivered to a cargo freight handler at LAX and loaded onto a commercial cargo flight — the same kind of operation used to ship racehorses, oversized equipment, and the occasional Corvette. The car would arrive in Honolulu the following morning, where Ray would be waiting after his own overnight flight.
The cost, the logistics, the coordination — all of it was worth it for a single day on Oahu. Because the rule was simple: all 50 states. No exceptions.
The People Behind the Website
The school visit to Bird Rock Elementary was a reminder that the ALL50 road trip wasn't just Ray and a Corvette — it was a team effort. Edward Sanchez of BrassRing Multimedia had been building and updating the ALL50 website from the beginning, turning Ray's dispatches from the road into the journal entries that thousands of people were following online. His daughter Amethyst's class got to meet the car and the man behind the trip in person.
Edward would later accompany Ray on the drive down the California coast at the very end of the journey — a fitting bookend for someone who had been part of it from day one.