Protected: The Topic We Don’t Talk About
I’m Done With the Holidays
I’m sitting here trying to think of what to write - trying to write so that I don’t irritate or anger anyone with my thoughts and feelings - but holy cow, Thanksgiving sucked. I mean, it always kind of sucks for me, for some reason (I suspect, related to the topic we don’t discuss here) the holidays are very hard for me. There’s my birthday, at the end of November which, inevitably falls somewhere around Thanksgiving in addition to the whole ‘Thanksgiving Experience’ - something I’m just not all that into. In the end, it’s just not something I enjoy and why we thought heading out to beautiful (who calls California beautiful?) sunny (it rained and was foggy the whole time) California to visit John’s folks was a good idea escapes me. I guess, it goes something like Childbirth - it is the most painful, unpleasant and rigorous event a woman can purposely subject herself to, yet she does it time and time again, because for some reason, we always forget all the really bad and focus on the really good…
…In this case, the really good being the first time that John, Jerrett and I have spent the holidays with family in years. What in the heck was I thinking?
Quick Thanksgiving Day Update
Morning folks! Hope everyone is having a fantastic day so far! I wanted to post a few pictures, which we got wit the normal camera, rather than the phone.
This picture basically shows what the weather was like the whole way to California. It was foggy, cool, rainy and windy. At one point, we stopped at a rest stop close to the AZ/CA border and the wind and rain was blowing so hard it was hard to see. To say that we were ill-prepared for the cool weather would be a slight understatement.
I’d always heard about the ‘wind farms’ in California - but I always assumed they were out in the middle of no where. I was wrong. The photo below is a picture of the wind turbines that were sitting scattered around a town we drove through on I-10
This picture is just a ‘gimmie’. The signs, the road and the rain seemed interesting.
The drive was brutal. The rain, traffic and stupidity of drivers made for a very interesting trip out. We underestimated the amount of traffic that would be coming out of LA - and when I mean, coming out of LA, I mean the entire 89 miles between LA and Bakersfield. It was mind-boggling. We went 40-ish miles going no more than 20 miles an hour.
I’m charging the camera now and will update more later 
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