Answers for the clue that begins, “Some treks through…”

1st part

The illuminated areas of the first three license plates are “6-L-0”. Since you’re looking for a word, you replace the number 6 with the 6th letter of the alphabet (F). The zero also looks like an O. So it spells “F-L-0”. Which is directing you to Flo’s V8 Diner just up the street.

2nd part

The eye chart has numbers on the right side, one for each line. The numbers on the clue are a decimal, like 9.7. This is telling you to go to line 9 and letter 7. When you do that for all eight letters, it spells:

CORONADO