Routes
QTE Hop 2: Williams, AZ, to Oklahoma City, OK
3 days, 905 miles via I-40 and I-44. I really wasn’t looking forward to this hop. Three long days on the road, almost all on I-40. There would be some scenery, but it would be dusty scenery and we were getting pretty fed up with wind and dust. We left Williams with a fine layer … Continue reading
Sedona
Last Wednesday was a beautiful day in Williams. I decided it was also a beautiful day to visit Sedona, about an hour distant. Jett didn’t come with me as she had a headache and “wasn’t that interested in scenery.” Too bad, because she missed some great scenery. She also missed a nasty, narrow, twist-and-turn road … Continue reading
QTE Hop 1: Aguanga, CA, to Williams, AZ
454 miles via CA 79, I-10, CA 177, CA 62, AZ 95 and I-40. Day 1: Aguanga, CA, to Lake Havasu City, AZ The first day of this two-day hop was 279 miles, of which about 150 were through desert that was excessively hot, even by desert standards. I was pretty worried about how the … Continue reading
My penultimate commute
I would have saved this for tomorrow, but that would have been my final commute to Temecula and it is so much more fun to say penultimate. Anyway, I wanted to document, for my memories as much as for anyone else’s edification, the glorious first 15 miles of my commute (or last 15, if I … Continue reading
The Quick Trip East (QTE)
We successfully avoided winter by hunkering down in California. It has been an interesting six months but it is time to think about making the trek back east. Our tenants have decided to not renew their lease, so we need to decide what to do with the house. I need to check in with the … Continue reading
You can’t get there from here
We will be in California for another two months – until June 8. But it is not too early to think about the route that we will take to get back to Massachusetts. We are committed to arriving by July 15, so that means that we need to travel across the country in just 5 … Continue reading
The trek-ula to Temecula
We left San Jose last Saturday, heading south in search of warmer temperatures. It was a 2-day trek with two wildly different segments. The first day was a bucolic trip down the central valley, a mostly-flat and fairly boring trip. There were a lot of orchards and vegetable fields lining I-5. The only hilly and … Continue reading
Half Moon Bay and a sunset in the Sunset District
Another beautiful day in the bay area. Another day without Jett. Another opportunity to take one of those long drives along winding mountain roads that Jett hates. So I left Morgan Hill around 2pm, drove through Saratoga up into the hills, along Skyline Drive, down to the coast, up CA 1 through Half Moon Bay … Continue reading
Congestion, or lack thereof
I have now been commuting 14 miles each way to my office for three full weeks. The office itself provides exactly what I need: a fast internet connection and a desk and chair. The people there are friendly, though it is clear that they still consider me a curiosity (why would a software guy need … Continue reading
GTW Hop 37: Gilroy, CA, to San Jose, CA
19 miles via US 101 and local streets. Cumulative distance: 6,184 miles. This last hop of the GTW was less than 20 miles and was made simply to move Patience to her winter resting place: the Coyote Valley RV Resort which sits on the border between San Jose and Morgan Hill. I will describe the … Continue reading