That trip would have been better during the summer.
My vacation, by the numbers
2,715 - Miles driven by yours truly
9 - Days (10 if you look at the calendar, but what do calendars know about road trips anyway)
16 - Hours spent mingling with family
1,060 - Number of pictures I now have to sift through and/or process (1,531 if you include duplicates)
33° F - The temperature I hate most for taking pictures on a sunny day
10,630 - Total combined number of points earned (hotel, credit card)
11 - Number of Naked/Odwalla fruit juice smoothies consumed while driving
1 - Number of: cracked windshields I now have; visits to Walmart, McDonalds, Costco, and Best Buy; Jiffy Lube Signature Service oil changes; iPods broken; iPods purchased; redwood trees driven through
Notable cities/stops
- Half Moon Bay, CA (night 1)
- San Francisco, CA (some bridge thing. and chocolate. mmmm, chocolate.)
- Fort Bragg, CA (night 2)
- Gold Beach, OR (night 3)
- Newport, OR (night 4)
- Astoria, OR (northernmost point)
- Portland, OR (night 5)
- Albany, OR (nights 6 and 7. also, family. and thanksgiving. and my birthday.)
- Weed, CA (LOL the sign says “weed”)
- Sacramento, CA (night 8)
- Santa Monica, CA (night 9)
- San Diego, CA (current status)
- Various turnouts and distractions along the way
The Oregon and northern California coastline is beautiful, and I’ll probably redo a version of this trip during the summer in a few years.
