// Slower C++ solution:
#include<bits/stdc++.h>

using namespace std;

#define ALL(x) begin(x),end(x)

typedef long long ll;

int OO = 0x3f3f3f3f;



int n;

int a[100005];

int b[100005];

int c[100005];

int mem[100005][3];



int solve(int x, int k)

{

    int op1, op2, op3;

    if(x == n)

        return 0;



    if(mem[x][k] != -1)

        return mem[x][k];



    op1 = op2 = op3 = 0;

    if(k != 1)

        op1 = solve(x+1, 1)+a[x];

    if(k != 2)

        op2 = solve(x+1, 2)+b[x];

    if(k != 3)

        op3 = solve(x+1, 3)+c[x];



    return mem[x][k] = max(op1, max(op2, op3));

}



int main()

{

    memset(mem, -1, sizeof mem);

    cin >> n;

    for(int i = 0; i< n; i++)

    {

        cin >> a[i] >> b[i] >> c[i];

    }

    cout << solve(0, 0) << endl;

    return 0;

}


// Faster C++ solution for the same problem (measured speedup: 2.161571296694289x):
#include <bits/stdc++.h>

using namespace std;



typedef long double LD;

typedef long long ll;

typedef map<int,int> mii;

typedef pair<int,int> pii;

typedef vector<pii> vpii;



#define pb              push_back

#define mp              make_pair

#define F               first

#define S               second

#define mod             1000000007

#define INF             2147483647

#define endl            "\n"

#define FasterIO        ios_base::sync_with_stdio(0);cin.tie(0); cout.tie(0) ;

#define precision(a)    cout << fixed << setprecision(a)

#define bug(a,b)        cout<<a<<"\t"<<b<<"\n";

#define Case(a,b)       cout<<"Case "<<a<<": "<<b<<"\n";

#define reset(a,b)      memset(a,b,sizeof(a));

#define For(x,n)        for(int i=x; i<n; i++)



const int MAXN = 1000005;

const int SQRTN = 1003;

const int LOGN = 22;

const double PI=acos(-1);



int strtoint(string str){

    stringstream ss(str);

    int x = 0;

    ss >> x ;

    return x ;

}

string intostr(int x){

    stringstream ss;

    ss << x;

    string str = ss.str();

    return str;

}

void rem(string &s, const string &c) {

	auto pos = s.find(c);

	if (pos == string::npos) {

		cout << -1 << endl;

		exit(0);

	}

	s.erase(0, pos + 1);

}

void println (int n){

    cout<<n<<"\n";

}

void printvec(vector <int> &a){

    for (int i=0;i<a.size();i++){

        cout<<a[i]<<" ";

    }

    cout<<"\n";

}



void printgraph(vector <int> g[],int e){

    for (int i=0;i<e;i++){

        cout<<i<<" --> ";

        for (int j=0;j<g[i].size();j++){

            cout<<g[i][j]<<" ";

        }

        cout<<"\n";

    }

}



void printmap (map <int,int> &mymap){

    for (auto itr = mymap.begin(); itr != mymap.end(); ++itr) {

        cout << '\t' << itr->first

             << '\t' << itr->second << '\n';

    }

    cout << "\n";

}







void solve(){

    int n;

    cin>>n;

    int v[n+1][3];



    for (int i=0;i<n;i++){

        for (int j=0;j<3;j++){

            cin>>v[i][j];

        }

    }



    int temp[n][3];

    temp[0][0] = v[0][0];

    temp[0][1] = v[0][1];

    temp[0][2] = v[0][2];

    for (int i=1;i<n;i++){



        temp[i][0] = v[i][0] + max(temp[i - 1][1], temp[i - 1][2]);

        temp[i][1] = v[i][1] + max(temp[i - 1][0], temp[i - 1][2]);

        temp[i][2] = v[i][2] + max(temp[i - 1][1], temp[i - 1][0]);





        /*for (int x=0;x<n;x++){

            for (int y=0;y<3;y++){

                cout<<temp[x][y]<<" ";

            }

            cout<<endl;

        }*/







    }





    cout << max({temp[n - 1][0], temp[n - 1][1], temp[n - 1][2]});





}





int main(){

    //FasterIO;



    solve();

    return 0;

}