While birds do this every day, we just got a kick out of this one... rather than show us his face, we got every other angle of him... including this 'money' shot as he prepares to abandon the paparrazi stalkers below.

All we could do was laugh.

:D

The Trip, Part 4

So, gentle readers, I imagine you thought this day would never come. But, it has. The end of the trip. Once upon a time, a blue girl took a trip to Washington State to see her best friend. Then they came back home. Chronicled here for your entertainment. :D So, now to finish. Please forgive if it seems a bit foggy, but you must remember, we're driving on 2 hours of sleep... the world was all in a fog, even though the sun was brighter than I ever remember seeing it, before or since.

Imagine, if you will, sleeping in a car. I'm sure many of us have, actually, for one reason or another. Unfortunately, they are not built for women of substance... so the only comfortable one was the dog. Luckily, Cap's new vehicle was suitably plush enough, it wasn't like sleeping on a kitchen chair or anything, just a bit cramped. Once we woke up to the sun's insistent knocking on our eyelids, we spent almost as much time stretching out as we did sleeping, before we began the final leg of the trip.

It's 7 am in northern California. The area is not very exciting, most of this leg of the trip was through land that, barring the mountain range, looked almost like Illinois. Acres of wild land, followed by acres of orange groves (ok, they don't have those in Illinois), followed by more acres of wild land. Dotted with the occasional town/city. We were in a race by this time, just wanting to get home and rest in proper beds, and put the driving behind us. But still, the sense of camaraderie was there. Cap calls her beloved, and gets the report that if traffic is good, we should be able to get home by 1:30 pm. Sure enough, we hit it just about there, avoiding LA traffic and any other real snarls, and stopping for breakfast and a change of clothes.

Why the race? Why not meander as was the original plan? By this time, we were both ready to be done with it. We wanted to see our beloveds, take showers, and admit that perhaps, just maybe, we were too old to do this kind of thing anymore. *laughs softly* At least, without sleeping properly in between.

Honestly, those were the best 4 days I've spent in a long time. The most important part was getting to spend time with Cap, just hanging out, working side by side, laughing at our usual silliness in a place that hasn't had the opportunity to experience us yet. That made all the rest of it worthwhile. And that is why I'll do it again in a heartbeat. After we get some sleep.

For those who have waited patiently, I finally have a picture from our trip. One that will forever remind me of the jaunt up north... in the oddest way. At some point in the future, I'll show you all the rockin' t-shirt I got to commemorate the event. It brings new meaning to the idea of road trips, at least to me.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again - it's the little things that make life worthwhile. So try not to miss them...