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Sep. 1st, 2020
The great 2016 road trip, part 1
Sep. 1st, 2020 06:35 pmTechnically, the SO drove to Orlando and back. I just handled navigation.
The idea formed in our collective mind sometime during the winter of 2015-2016, when the SO suggested that driving to the opposite corner of the country might actually be more pleasant than flying, and then it struck me as a fun challenge, and so neither of us ever tried talking the other out of the idea.
I changed jobs in the spring of 2016, but the new place let people work holidays and take a different day off instead, so between saving up my holidays and my pro-rated number of vacation days for 2/3 of year, I was able to put together enough days off to take two and a half weeks in September.
In trying to come up with a suitable analogy for how far we'd be travelling for my co-worker in the next office, who had recently arrived from the UK, I learned that Portland to Orlando is about the same straight-line distance as London to Baghdad. Except we did not go in a straight line...
Day 1: ( Read more... )
Day 2: ( Read more... )
Next time: Taking that left turn at Albuquerque
The idea formed in our collective mind sometime during the winter of 2015-2016, when the SO suggested that driving to the opposite corner of the country might actually be more pleasant than flying, and then it struck me as a fun challenge, and so neither of us ever tried talking the other out of the idea.
I changed jobs in the spring of 2016, but the new place let people work holidays and take a different day off instead, so between saving up my holidays and my pro-rated number of vacation days for 2/3 of year, I was able to put together enough days off to take two and a half weeks in September.
In trying to come up with a suitable analogy for how far we'd be travelling for my co-worker in the next office, who had recently arrived from the UK, I learned that Portland to Orlando is about the same straight-line distance as London to Baghdad. Except we did not go in a straight line...
Day 1: ( Read more... )
Day 2: ( Read more... )
Next time: Taking that left turn at Albuquerque