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:<\/p>\n
OMG! We are going to leave for a month starting Sunday. We are going to DRIVE across the continent. Are you kidding?!?<\/em><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Shouldn’t someone stop us? Talk some sense into one of us?<\/p>\n 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<\/em>. But if we decided to leave a day early, we’d be leaving tomorrow. To drive across the continent. For a month.<\/p>\n 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…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,6],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cross-country","tag-phobias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}