How To Spend Eight Hours
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Travel time to and from the airport: 1.5 hours
Time spent getting through security, waiting at the gate, and at baggage claim: 2.5 hours
Time spent on an airplane: 4 hours
Total time spent traveling two thousand miles between my parents' house in Chicago and my house: 8 hours
Time spent traveling two HUNDRED miles (a 3.5-4 hour trip, usually) between Steve's parents' house and ours when it is snowing, the Grapevine is closed, and the detour route is covered in snow and slush and California drivers who can't drive in snow: 8 hours
It was charming for a while. We left Fresno at 1:30 and adjusted our original estimated 5:00 arrival home to 6:30 because of the detour. We were enjoying snow-covered mountains and flurries. It was beautiful! Steve joked that he hoped we were home by 10:00. Haha.
(All pictures were taken before it started getting bad.)
Then it started getting backed up for no reason. Then (two hours later) it started getting backed up because there were no snow plows and no salt or sand and there was black ice and people don't know how to drive in snow and it was scary.
We were home by 10:00, but not by much.
All in all, we spent more waking hours in the car than we did visiting Steve's family this weekend.
Travel time to and from the airport: 1.5 hours
Time spent getting through security, waiting at the gate, and at baggage claim: 2.5 hours
Time spent on an airplane: 4 hours
Total time spent traveling two thousand miles between my parents' house in Chicago and my house: 8 hours
Time spent traveling two HUNDRED miles (a 3.5-4 hour trip, usually) between Steve's parents' house and ours when it is snowing, the Grapevine is closed, and the detour route is covered in snow and slush and California drivers who can't drive in snow: 8 hours
It was charming for a while. We left Fresno at 1:30 and adjusted our original estimated 5:00 arrival home to 6:30 because of the detour. We were enjoying snow-covered mountains and flurries. It was beautiful! Steve joked that he hoped we were home by 10:00. Haha.
(All pictures were taken before it started getting bad.)
Then it started getting backed up for no reason. Then (two hours later) it started getting backed up because there were no snow plows and no salt or sand and there was black ice and people don't know how to drive in snow and it was scary.
We were home by 10:00, but not by much.
All in all, we spent more waking hours in the car than we did visiting Steve's family this weekend.