You may notice the blog entries for the next few days being posted somewhat erratically. The reason is that we’re on the road – or more specifically, Carolyn is on the road as usual and this time I’m accompanying her. The last time we tried this was last year with her visit to a site in San Luis Obispo. It was so successful that we thought we’d try another one. Only trouble is, I’m so reluctant to ask for a vacation from my volunteer assignments. But taking a week off once or twice a year should be understandable, shouldn’t it.
Being on the road isn’t necessarily a reason for not posting but not being able to reliably find a connection to the Internet is. Like right now, I’m sitting in our room in the Kern River Inn/Bed and Breakfast comfortably typing this entry. And the Inn has a wireless Internet connection available. But we got in so late, we don’t feel comfortable bothering the owner/manager of the Inn for the key necessary to get into their network. We’ll wait until morning.
And why did we get in late? you ask. We didn’t get away late at all. In fact we left very close to our projected departure time of 9:00 am. And the Highlander ran well. And we didn’t get lost even once or take the wrong turn more than a couple of times, neither of which caused appreciable delay. BUT, we did take the scenic route from home to here in Kernville. That turned a 5.5 hour trip into an 11 hour trip. Add a half hour stop for lunch in Fresno and you can imagine that we arrived at our destination close to 8:30 which is apparently closing time for all the restaurants in this town. Our innkeeper took one look at us, asked whether or not we had had anything to eat then shooshed us out the door to get something to eat before it was too late.
I want a map of the scenic route. It would look good on this post.
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