Home sweet fucking home... welcome back to the mosquito capital of the world... We've been killing these little fucking vampire bastards that got into the house while we were moving all our shit inside for the last hour now....
So we got home a day earlier than expected... Actually it was on purpose....
And I am pleased to announce the body bags were not used on this trip other than "for information purposes" if you get my drift...
Many a lesson can be learned from a long road trip with family...
And the decision at Cresent City, CA with 3 soda pop induced and corndog-addled hellions in the backseat playing fist-a-cuffs with each other's throats, to cut inland to the I-5 instead of driving up the Oregon coast and get to our last destination, Seattle, a day earlier, was the right indeed one...
My kids are definitely NOT 'the take your sweet time looking at the pretty incredible scenery the Pacific coast has to offer' type of people. They ARE the let's get the fuck out of Dodge and get to our next hotel right-the-fuck-now and stay there for a few days kind of people..
In fact, it would suit them just fine and dandy just to hang out in a hotel room for the entire vacation watching the teevee and fuck around at the pool....
Shit like the swimming the warmest lake in Canada, enduring the Kootenays blackout with over 32,000 homes without power, watching one of the wife's all-time favourite movies on a big screen on the beach and seeing, not one but 2- 1980's era one hit wonder bands kick it up a notch on Santa Cruz beach, driving across the Golden Gate bridge, eating fresh dungeness crab and clam chowder in a sourdough bowl on Fisherman's Wharf, seal watching at Pier 39, a Silicon Valley tour including the Google and Apple campuses, wine tasting in Napa and Sonoma, driving thru the Redwood forest and the Chandelier "Drive-thru" Tree, seeing the Pacific Ocean beaches, riding up the Seattle Space Needle on its 50th Anniversary, the Pike Place Market and flying fish, the Gum Wall, the northern coastline tour on a boat, hitting up 15 different Costcos, 5 different Whole Foods, and chowing down on my fav, the $6 Dollar burger at Carl's Jr meant sweet fuck all and will be just a blur to these kids by next week...
Highlights of the trip for them: Jumping off some private dock they shouldn't have been on, meeting "Scarlic" (Scarlet) "the cutest baby ever", and playing with Hank- the coolest British bulldog in the whole world even though "he's like a pig!!" according to the 6-year old...
Everything else is just details....
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