A day on the road looks something like this:
I wake up, like clockwork, between 6 and 6:30 every morning feeling well rested. I do not know why. I do some writing and checking of emails. I search out a hot spot to get coffee. My family wakes up and gets moving usually between about 7:30 and 8 am, showering, packing of bags, pillow fighting, playing sardines, breakfast (we always look for the breakfast included places), and then we move out in one semi-fluid motion to address the day.
We get in the car, find awesome coffee, see spectacular things, visit spectacular places. We usually stop three or four times to see or do. We pray for our intentions for the day. We either have lunch in the car or stop somewhere with a picnic table or grass and eat out of doors. So far on this trip, we have had about two hours of cloudy weather. That was this morning.
Every three or four days, I make my family eat up all the weird leftovers for dinner, which can include canned mandarin oranges, yogurt, sliced meat, tortillas, grapes, carrots and celery, corn chips, avocado mashed with aiola mayonnaise, sour cream and onion chips, Life cereal and leftover Chinese food heated up on a paper plate. It's fun!
We roll into our next hotel usually between about 4 and 7 pm, then we have a long swim. Ever few days, Albert and I go for a grocery date, where we pick up supplies for the bellies. Then we watch Chopped or Thor or Castle or Jeopardy for an hour or so and then go to bed. Albert and I plot out the next day or two's events, have a beer or a glass of wine, write blogs, check emails, distances, book our next night's hotel, read about the towns we'll pass through and the local history here.
We all pass out and sleep like rocks.
I wake up, like clockwork, between 6 and 6:30 every morning feeling well rested. I do not know why. I do some writing and checking of emails. I search out a hot spot to get coffee. My family wakes up and gets moving usually between about 7:30 and 8 am, showering, packing of bags, pillow fighting, playing sardines, breakfast (we always look for the breakfast included places), and then we move out in one semi-fluid motion to address the day.
We get in the car, find awesome coffee, see spectacular things, visit spectacular places. We usually stop three or four times to see or do. We pray for our intentions for the day. We either have lunch in the car or stop somewhere with a picnic table or grass and eat out of doors. So far on this trip, we have had about two hours of cloudy weather. That was this morning.
Every three or four days, I make my family eat up all the weird leftovers for dinner, which can include canned mandarin oranges, yogurt, sliced meat, tortillas, grapes, carrots and celery, corn chips, avocado mashed with aiola mayonnaise, sour cream and onion chips, Life cereal and leftover Chinese food heated up on a paper plate. It's fun!
We roll into our next hotel usually between about 4 and 7 pm, then we have a long swim. Ever few days, Albert and I go for a grocery date, where we pick up supplies for the bellies. Then we watch Chopped or Thor or Castle or Jeopardy for an hour or so and then go to bed. Albert and I plot out the next day or two's events, have a beer or a glass of wine, write blogs, check emails, distances, book our next night's hotel, read about the towns we'll pass through and the local history here.
We all pass out and sleep like rocks.
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