{"id":2236,"date":"2023-05-21T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mossor.org\/blog\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2023-05-19T15:59:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T22:59:02","slug":"write-road-tripping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mossor.org\/blog\/write-road-tripping\/","title":{"rendered":"Write: Road Tripping!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We just got back from a 10-day road trip.  We\u2019re tired but it was a great trip!  The impetus for the trip was to visit my daughter, Laurel, down in Berkeley where she lives how for her new career as a Software Developer.  (I\u2019m very proud of her for her accomplishment as she was a broke-ass college student finishing her Graduate degree in Social Work not so long ago, so this was quite the transition)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christina and I had talked about taking a Road Trip for some time.  We travel well together and it had been a while and we\u2019d never really done anything on this order before.  We had been tentatively planning a month-long road trip, perhaps for some time this summer, but circumstances caused us to scale it back and look at this more as a training trip or experiment to see how we\u2019d do.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Historically, most of our vacations tend to be the one-week variety.\u00a0 Initially, this was due to the restrictions of work, but over time it became kind of the optimal duration.\u00a0 Much longer than that and I\u2019d start missing my stuff!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were brainstorming what we\u2019d like to do on the trip, besides visiting Laurel, and Christina mentioned that she\u2019d never been through the Redwoods before.\u00a0 Done!\u00a0 On the list.\u00a0 Years ago I\u2019d gone to the Marin County Farmers Market and it was cool and upscale, so I thought it\u2019d be fun to go to that and they had a Thursday version, so that went on the list.\u00a0 We both observed that we\u2019d never been to Lake Tahoe before.\u00a0 Done!\u00a0 On the list.\u00a0 So, the trip roughly became driving to Berkeley via the Redwoods, stay in Berkely for a few days then off the Lake Tahoe then back home.\u00a0 A girlfriend of Christina\u2019s mentioned a place called Burney Falls in California, which also made the tentative list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had originally thought a road trip with nothing fixed in stone would be fun. Still, the reality is that we planned this trip around a fixed few days in California, so that meant we had to figure out roughly how long to take to get down there and Christina had some things to do near the end of the trip, so that became a fixed end point for the trip.\u00a0 So, nothing fixed in stone sounded neat but wasn\u2019t very realistic.\u00a0 That triggered the planning part of my brain, so I sketched out our trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(I use an app called Bear<\/a> on the Mac and iOS so I can share info, sync across devices and write it without a lot of focus on formatting and more on content.\u00a0 This is dropped from that.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

California Road Trip<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Route:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n