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Impressions of the drive: Smooth, fast, economic, and fun. Great carpool buddies go a long way toward making a long drive easy, and it doesn't hurt to have a vehicle to drive that has just about everything anyone needs (except perhaps a coffeemaker) to ease the way on the road.
We took a wonderful tour of San Luis Obispo, ending in a wonderful lunch before tacking the most boring part of the drive through Central Callifornia. All very, very good.
The fires are definitely taking a toll. Off to the west, there was much smoke to be seen from still-out-of-control fires. Traffic was light, and easy, but even when it did jam for a few minutes, the hybrid features on the Tahoe made it far less painful than it otherwise would have been.
Suebob nominated me for the city driving -- a dubious honor. We fired up the OnStar directions about 100 miles outside of the city, filled up the tank before hitting the expensive gas, and headed in.
Onstar was great. Got us right to the front door of the hotel. There was just one problem. It put us on the wrong side of the street.
Go ahead and try to get to the RIGHT side of the street without losing your mind. I double-dog dare ya. As we're navigating the streets of San Francisco with little more than intuition and blind courage, my phone rings...the husband, feeling left out of the fun, decided to call at the most stressful point in the drive to update me on the teenagers' antics, including Drummerboy's rear-end fender bender, my stupid decision to approve the daughter's movie attendance at the midnight opening to Batman, and assorted other non-issues which had to be discussed RIGHT THEN.
The Tahoe was graceful and strong. Me? Not so much, not at that moment.
(to be continued...time to get to sessions!)
