Heading Out
Mar. 7th, 2013 09:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aearwen2Yes, I'm still breathing air.
Today is the day I'm taking off (so to speak) to travel to AZ to visit my brother and attend the Arizona Renaissance Faire. I'm taking Amtrak, as I really am not fond of the idea of having to go through the TSA security crud at all - much less the fact that the airplane seats are comfortable only for folks with anorexia (which I definitely don't have!!).
My daughter decided she didn't like the idea of my driving the LA freeway system with all the painkilling meds I have to take nowadays in my system - especially since I would have to borrow her car to make the trip. I've noticed some side effects dulling my responses myself, so I was more than amenable to changing the travel plans.
BUT...
I'm REALLY not looking forward to 22½ hours on a train (two trains & a bus, actually) to get to Phoenix. I'm traveling coach this time, so hopefully being able to recline the seat a bit will mean I can sleep a little better than I did in the sleeping car to OR last May. That was an exercise in futility, I swear.
JJ will be responsible for taking care of the tropical fish that he's become obsessed with to the point of having three (count 'em, THREE) tanks now, with daughter Súl poking her head in morning & evening to make sure that he does what he's supposed to. Hubby will be doing the cooking and continuing his creative stuff in the Man Cave outside.
Then again, I'm only gonna be gone a total of 5 days, so hopefully there isn't a whole lot that can go wrong in that time. I have plenty to keep me busy on the long ride: music I need to create a piano arrangement for, creative writing (both o-fic and fan fic) and my tablet with all the unread Kindle books I've got in the last month or so. If I get bored, it'll be my own damned fault.
Anyhoo, ta until this coming Wednesday, F-list folks...
Today is the day I'm taking off (so to speak) to travel to AZ to visit my brother and attend the Arizona Renaissance Faire. I'm taking Amtrak, as I really am not fond of the idea of having to go through the TSA security crud at all - much less the fact that the airplane seats are comfortable only for folks with anorexia (which I definitely don't have!!).
My daughter decided she didn't like the idea of my driving the LA freeway system with all the painkilling meds I have to take nowadays in my system - especially since I would have to borrow her car to make the trip. I've noticed some side effects dulling my responses myself, so I was more than amenable to changing the travel plans.
BUT...
I'm REALLY not looking forward to 22½ hours on a train (two trains & a bus, actually) to get to Phoenix. I'm traveling coach this time, so hopefully being able to recline the seat a bit will mean I can sleep a little better than I did in the sleeping car to OR last May. That was an exercise in futility, I swear.
JJ will be responsible for taking care of the tropical fish that he's become obsessed with to the point of having three (count 'em, THREE) tanks now, with daughter Súl poking her head in morning & evening to make sure that he does what he's supposed to. Hubby will be doing the cooking and continuing his creative stuff in the Man Cave outside.
Then again, I'm only gonna be gone a total of 5 days, so hopefully there isn't a whole lot that can go wrong in that time. I have plenty to keep me busy on the long ride: music I need to create a piano arrangement for, creative writing (both o-fic and fan fic) and my tablet with all the unread Kindle books I've got in the last month or so. If I get bored, it'll be my own damned fault.
Anyhoo, ta until this coming Wednesday, F-list folks...
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