Journey vs. Destination

At some point this evening, after I finished packing clothes (deciding to go with the many-small-bags approach), identified the few things that still need to go in the laundry and added things to the List (socks!!), I realized something shocking and horrifying:

OMG! We are going to leave for a month starting Sunday. We are going to DRIVE across the continent. Are you kidding?!?

I avoid driving to Mountain View unless I’ve got a good reason. Going to SF usually requires an immediate monetary reason. And despite the rumors of beautiful beaches, we’ve never been to Mendacino because it is too far.

Shouldn’t someone stop us? Talk some sense into one of us?

This trip has always been in the future. And even though we’ve been getting ready for weeks, it has still been in the future. But if we decided to leave a day early, we’d be leaving tomorrow. To drive across the continent. For a month.

This is just insanity. I’d never agree to this. I’m sure I’ll wake up any minute now. Or transition into taking college exams naked…