// Slower C++ solution:
#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 srt(a)      sort(a.begin(),a.end());



const int MAXN = 1000005;

const int SQRTN = 1003;

const int LOGN = 22;

const double PI=acos(-1);

const int sz=1e5+9;



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";

}



int a[100005][4], dp[100005][4];

int N;



int rec(int pos, int type){



    if(pos>N) return 0;



    if(dp[pos][type]!=-1) return dp[pos][type];



    int ret = -1;

    for(int i=1; i<=3; i++)

        if(i!=type)

            ret = max (ret, rec(pos+1,i) + a[pos+1][i]);



    return dp[pos][type] = ret;

}





void solve(){

    memset(dp,-1,sizeof(dp));

    int i,j;

    cin>>N;

    for(i=1; i<=N; i++)

        for(j=1; j<=3; j++)

            cin>>a[i][j];





   cout<< rec(0,0) << "\n";



    //printvec(v);

}





int main(){

    //FasterIO;



    solve();

    return 0;

}

// Faster C++ solution for the same problem (measured speedup: 2.567274315556308x):
#include<bits/stdc++.h>

using namespace std;

const int inf=0x3f3f3f3f;

void A() {

    int n;

    cin>>n;

    vector<int> a(n,0);

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

        cin>>a[i];

    vector<int> dp(n+1,inf);

    dp[0]=0;

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

        dp[i]=min(dp[i],dp[i-1]+abs(a[i]-a[i-1]));

        if(i>=2)

            dp[i]=min(dp[i],dp[i-2]+abs(a[i]-a[i-2]));

    }

    cout<<dp[n-1]<<endl;



}

void B() {

    int n,k;

    cin>>n>>k;

    vector<int> dp(n+1,inf);

    vector<int> h(n,0);

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

        cin>>h[i];

    dp[0]=0;

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

        for(int len=1; len<=min(k+1,i+1); len++) {

            int j=i-len+1;

            dp[i]=min(dp[i],dp[j]+abs(h[j]-h[i]));

        }

    }

    cout<<dp[n-1]<<endl;

}

void C() {

    int n;

    cin>>n;

    vector<vector<int>> a(n,vector<int>(3,0));

    for(int i=0;i<n;i++) cin>>a[i][0]>>a[i][1]>>a[i][2];

    vector<vector<int>> dp(n,vector<int>(3,0));

    dp[0][0]=a[0][0];

    dp[0][1]=a[0][1];

    dp[0][2]=a[0][2];

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

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

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

                if(j==k)

                    continue;

                dp[i][j]=max(dp[i][j],dp[i-1][k]+a[i][j]);

                //cout<<dp[i][j]<<endl;

            }

        }

    }

    cout<<max(dp[n-1][0],max(dp[n-1][1],dp[n-1][2]))<<endl;

}

int main() {

    ios::sync_with_stdio(false);

    cin.tie(0);

    C();

}