Christmas Catch Up

The holiday break was quick and busy. Starting with signing papers on a house (more on that in the next post), moving completely out of the storage unit and mostly out of the boat, then driving to SLO and the bay area.

Skip this paragraph if you don’t care, I’m just venting: I made the mistake of leaving the day after Christmas and a heavy rain + snowfall which closed every road but the 101 heading to LA. However, cross-referencing my traffic apps led me wrong… I went all the way to the Grapevine because a passage around the 5 closure was open, then it was closed when I got there, so I went towards Bakersfield to a road still open, except that it was flooded and closed, so I gave up and drove north 3 hours to try to make it to Paso Robles… along with thousands of other travelers in stopped traffic, idling, running out of fuel. Then got word that the pass back in Bakersfield is opening again, so I turned around and drove back… that was highway 58 through Tehachapi to Mojave and it was closed again after they decided to escort vehicles through and spin-outs and truck-against-truck accidents were happening everywhere. It was a crawl through the snowy summit passing families sleeping in their cars and people who wrecked theirs, then maneuvered some black-ice patches, arriving to my new house at 5am, having left at 9am the previous day. Worst drive I’ve ever had.

Always great seeing my family up there and it always seems too short - Had I known the future, I would have stayed an extra day.