So it turns out Emily and I drove 310 miles round trip for lunch and a nap on the beach. And it was totally worth it. To be honest, we didn’t end up leaving at 6:30 like I planned (demanded), the only exercise I got was pushing the gas pedal, and we didn’t exactly not use [...]
Posts Tagged ‘roadtripping’
getting away from it all. sort of – part ii
Posted in my people, travel, tagged best friends, getting away from it all, iphones, Mendocino, roadtripping on March 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thanksgiving in LA – part 3
Posted in my people, travel, tagged moving on, roadtripping, travel on December 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Editor’s note: This the final of three entries about my trip to LA. I promise.
In the past driving up Highway 1 has always coincided with a major change in my life. But I guess that is true of all great road trips. There is nothing quite like packing the car with a backpack, running shoes [...]
Yosemite trip – part 2
Posted in travel, tagged roadtripping, travel, yosemite on September 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
By 6:30 a.m. we were only running half an hour behind schedule.
This is nothing short of a miracle if you know Emily and me. In high school I used to forge notes excusing our tardiness because we couldn’t quite manage to rally before first period. (And when I say ‘we’ I mean Emily.)
As we boarded the on ramp of the Bay Bridge [...]
Yosemite trip – Part 1
Posted in travel, tagged life saving skills, REI, roadtripping, travel on September 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
With T minus 12 hours until our departure for Yosemite, Emily and I had packed exactly nothing. Between the two of us we had the following: one sleeping bag, one survival kit my dad assembled for me the last time I got stranded in the woods at night, and one pink Swiss Army knife equipped with a nail [...]
