one road trip: gangbuster success. we left friday morning last, and once in san francisco managed to drink beers almost nonstop during waking hours through sunday night. we did step out briefly on friday for burgers and to go to a bar for a while, but saturday and sunday we let the party come to us. football game and and hanging out all day saturday, bbq and beer pong all day sunday. all the buddies just having a good time. it was uneventful and at the same time, amazing. more weekends like that, i say.

other road trip: cancelled! or at least delayed. yes, after months of trying to wrangle our friends into the RV trip to austin, we had enough people realize they couldn’t afford it or get the time off, that now the rest of us that were still committed had to finally call it off. it was within reason when we had six or seven people splitting the bill (and the driving duties), but once we got down to four or five, it just didn’t make sense any more. so no grand canyon for me this month. don’t worry, we’ll just be flying to austin to hang out and eat bbq and go to the festival.

but don’t worry: the dream will live on! perhaps a shorter, less pricey, less time-intensive RV party bus just to vegas and the grand canyon to come in the spring? don’t count us out yet, it’s still a great idea in the making. we’ll see if we can get more brave souls to join up next year.