This adventure is going to be slightly different than usual...
In the very early days of June, I had been pondering taking a road trip. My initial plans were to fly out west, rent a minivan and make a large loop of the west - Seattle to Reno to Phoenix to Albuquerque to Denver and then fly back home, or another loop of similar geography. A thought popped into my head, wouldn't it be nice to actually take my car up the Pacific Coast Highway? I realized this was a farce, with only 9 days for my trip, there was no physical way I could make it to California, drive up the coast and back eastward in that amount of time.
But what if I didn't have to actually drive my car out there?
I asked a good friend of mine, Carrie, to join me for lunch on Tuesday, and I outlined my audacious plan: we would load up my car with all of the camping gear and other assorted necessities, and then she would take off for Los Angeles. I would then fly out a week later and meet up with her (and the car) and we would take off up the Pacific Coast Highway to Seattle, and then back home.
I predicted that she would tell I was nuts, but that after some thought, would agree.
I was right.
In a few short days, my friend and my car would set off on the first part of a road trip, without me.
Slightly different, indeed...
