On Driving...

7/6/2015

Hi Friends,

I hope you all had a great 4th of July, free from too many sunburns, bug-bites, and fireworks related incidents.  If you've looked at social media at all over this past holiday weekend then you know fireworks manufacturers put those warnings on there for good reason.  Sheesh!!

You know what's fun?  A good road trip.  You get to see little tiny bits of places that you may never even pass by again.  You know what's not fun?  A flat tire on said road trip.  At 2:30 in the morning.  An hour from your hotel. Changing said tire in a visible swarm of mosquitoes.  Here's the story.

My wife and I are on vacation.  We're driving rather than flying.  And, our first destination is fifteen hours of driving from home.  So I think, let's get a head start on that fifteen hours, and instead of one super long day of driving, we can get about four to five hours the night before our vacation 'officially starts'.  Sounds like a great plan.  Until you throw in a super busy week leading up to your vacation.  There isn't time to pack until the evening you are trying to leave.  And, then you get started close to two hours later than you had planed.
Add a dash of booking a hotel room in advance-a good five hours away-rather than seeing how far you can go, and finding something when you are too tired to drive anymore.  Mix all of that together and you too, can turn a four and a half, five hour road trip into a grueling, eight hour ordeal that makes you question everything you've ever held to be true.  Sorry, that may be a little over dramatic.

We did make it safely to the hotel.  And manage to fit in a good three and half hours of sleep before it was time to be up and looking for a place to replace previously mentioned flat tire.  Then, back on the road to finish the first leg of our vacation.

The good news in all this.  I'm still on vacation, and right now, I can see the beach from my hotel room.

D