Franklinsanity

10:31 pm, San Rafael, CA:  As Barry said, looks like we made it.

Heck of a day, today.  Nearly 800 miles – and if I count driving time only, we did it in about 9.5 hours.  Yes, folks, if you do the math, we averaged around 80 mph.  It gets even scarier if you take out the 2-odd hours Awesome Wife insisted on driving…on the salt flats outside Winemucca, I definitely covered over 100 miles in an hour.

Gotta love 80 mph speed limits, no traffic, no cops and a good car.

Highlights, aside from speed, were the rando-but-awesome sandwich shop Awesome Wife found in Elko – despite being at death’s door and largely unable to speak given her sore throat; the gorgeous weather; a Chipotle in Roseville (I’ve had enough fast food for a long, long time now); the joy that Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban brought to the kids, or at least Gryffindor’s victory for the House Cup; the dude in the white mercedes headed to Vegas who flipped me off because he couldn’t quite ditch me in the Nevada desert…and the magnificent, unbeatable perfect California sunset as we crossed the Richmond bridge to get home.

Cool trip.  Now what the hell do I do with this blog?