Why?

Because it's about 35 miles closer to Bakersfield (my destination tonight) than my place in San Diego.  I'm going to leave in about 30 minutes with the hope that most of the crap holiday traffic will have subsided a bit.  If all goes well I'll make it to Bako by about 1am.  Mom's plans to hang with her husband's family (they do each year) were ( Read more... )

My weekend didn't play out quite like I had planned but I still did have an enjoyable time. I drove up to Hot Scott's pad on Friday and made really good time. I left Carlsbad around 6pm, took the LB toll road, stopped for a burger at In-N-Out and still made it to Scott's by around 8pm. He wasn't home from work yet so I made myself comfy, read my ( Read more... )