The Triangle Trip

Regular readers will recall that on October 30th the Mrs. and I planned to drive to Northern California to join our daughter on her 21st birthday. We got exactly 40 miles from home when a health crisis forced me to turn around and take my wife to the hospital. Instead of spending the day in Rohnert Park, we spent the day at Mission Hospital. At a cost to our health plan of $13,589. Needless the say, the trip was kaput.

My mom and my sister's family did get to enjoy the weekend with the girl, but we missed out and decided we needed to try again as soon as possible. The following two weekends were committed other events, and on the third weekend (this weekend) we already had plans to take advantage of the ridiculously low rates in Las Vegas for a several day trip to start on Sunday. Do we cancel Vegas and go north instead, or.....do we figure out how to do both.

We went with Plan B. We've added a couple of days to the trip and as you read this we should be on our way north again (hopefully we'll get farther than 40 miles this time). The plan is to drive up today, spend the rest of Friday and all day Saturday with the girl (including a choir concert she'll be performing in), and then early Sunday morning we'll start a 610 mile drive south and east to Vegas. Hence the name "Triangle Trip".

By the time we return home on Thanksgiving Day we'll have traveled about 1,400 miles and spent six nights on the road. We can't wait.

Blogging will be more sporadic than usual during this travel period. I'll try to post up some photos along the way. I'm giving myself a project for the Las Vegas part of the trip. In July, 2008, we were over there and I spent part of each evening walking along The Strip and taking photos of the various hotels in their nighttime splendor. I created a little web page for my shots which were taken with my old Kodak camera.

Since then I've gotten a new camera and on this trip I'm going to try and update all those photos with better ones. At least this time the sun will be down by 5pm instead of 9pm, so I can get more shots in each night without being out there until all hours of the night. I'm curious to see how well the Panasonic camera does in capturing the lights of the city.

Lots of travel ahead, but we really enjoy that stuff. See you from Northern California and Vegas!