Woohoo – going to head back up to the Seattle area to visit friends and my favorite hangouts. I am driving again of course – hoping to leave the Bay Area around 5AM on November 15th, go up to the Crescent City, CA area, and refresh my pictures of the California and Oregon coastline with the new camera I bought earlier in the year (42X optical zoom!!). Stay the night in Vancouver, WA(expecting about ~16 hours of driving total for the day), before heading up to Seattle (well Bellevue) on Friday, November 16th which is my b-day.
Party as hard as I can while I am there before heading back on November 26th, just in time for my Jury Duty on November 27th(just found out about that a couple of weeks ago).
If that wasn’t enough driving – I’m driving down to Orange County on Friday night (returning on Sunday) for my sister’s baby shower. This was more last minute, as I told her I’d go down there for the baby shower or Thanksgiving but not both. Since Thanksgiving moved to a week earlier than I expected this year it turns out I wasn’t going to be able to make it down there this time around so I’m going for her little party instead.
I walk to work most of the time(0.9 miles away from home) so I hardly put any miles on my car, but I make up for it with these road trips! Though one of my co-workers says his car is only 11 months old and he already has 27,000 miles on it!! (mostly from commuting which is 70-90 minutes each way). I have almost 22,000 miles on my car and I bought it about 21 months ago.