{"id":446,"date":"2008-08-29T07:16:59","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T14:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sackrider.org\/?p=446"},"modified":"2025-06-15T06:07:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T06:07:31","slug":"a-great-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/a-great-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"A Great Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lexi stretching her legs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Stephanie and I have been married for nine years, yesterday.\u00c2\u00a0 I took several days off work to celebrate the occasion, even though we had not made any formal plans.\u00c2\u00a0 Back when Stephanie and I got married, we used to take day trips on a regular basis, even some weekend driving trips on a whim – trips to near by cities a few hours away, trips to the beach or to Washington DC over 8 hours away, and even longer trips to see family in Maine or Charlotte NC weren’t uncommon.\u00c2\u00a0 But as we got more busy, added children to the mix, and moved across the country, those driving mini-vacations all but vanished.<\/p>\n

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J-Haul - that made me laugh!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We both miss them despite all the ups and downs of being in a car for several hours at a time, so when I suggested we hit the road and head to San Francisco – Stephanie said yes with enthusiasm!\u00c2\u00a0 Wednesday night we headed out and got as far as Blithe, CA.\u00c2\u00a0 We stayed in a cheap (in every sense of the word) hotel.\u00c2\u00a0 The next morning, we hit the road with a San Francisco or bust mentality.\u00c2\u00a0 Zander and Lexi have been been great for being trapped in a car most of the day, but we did stop to let Zander climb a tree or two at rest areas and we took a few pictures along the way.\u00c2\u00a0 We got into San Francisco last night at about 9pm.<\/p>\n

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Zander being awesome!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After paying $4 to cross the bridge from Oakland to San Francisco, calling several area hotels, attempting to drive around to look for a descent place to stay that wasn’t $200 bucks a night, and climbing the scariest hill of my life in a stick shift four cylinder, please never do that again to me car – we left San Francisco and headed back to Oakland for the night.\u00c2\u00a0 Let me pause here to say, if you ever drive to San Francisco and get there after dark and you are in a Hyundai Elantra – don’t climb the hills!\u00c2\u00a0 It was difficult enough just driving up them, but when we got the red light, and my wife started yelling for me to run it, then panicing that I stopped, then screaming when I rev’ed the engine to over 5 thousand RPM with the emergency break on, dropped the break, came off the clutch, in first gear, only to still travel backwards, I must say I was beginning to doubt turning up a street that looked like it went straight to up to heaven.\u00c2\u00a0 It was only after I rev’ed it to 7 thousand RPM and quite possibly damaged the transmision that we started to move forward at a pace of about 1 mile per day.\u00c2\u00a0 The entire time, my son was saying, “Its OK Mommie, I’m not afraid.” and my wife was trying to remember the number for 911.\u00c2\u00a0 We are on a great Adventure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stephanie and I have been married for nine years, yesterday.\u00c2\u00a0 I took several days off work to celebrate the occasion, even though we had not made any formal plans.\u00c2\u00a0 Back when Stephanie and I got married, we used to take day trips on a regular basis, even some weekend driving trips on a whim – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}