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Tomorrow our daughter and I will be driving her new car (formerly ours) to California to report to her new duty station (US Coast Guard), once again in the Bay Area. We'll be five days on the road, after which we'll spend nearly a week with my sister, who lives about three hours north of San Francisco. Then I will fly back home.
May the rest of May be blest, for you who experience May as spring. For you in the south of the world, may it be a time of other-seasonal loveliness.
~ Mechtild
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Our daughter just finished up an eleven-week course in being a "Boatswain's Mate" in Yorktown, VA. She flew here first on Saturday for a few days at home. The cats are going to be SO SPOILED. She's been getting out their interactive toys (things at the ends of strings attached to rods that you can twitch and whisk around, making the toy behave like prey) every other hour and giving them long play sessions. They usually only get one! :)
The weather from here to western Colorado does not look that great, which is too bad. We really wanted to see the mountains, crossing the Rockies there, but they may be swathed in clouds. It may even snow.
After that, once we get out into the desert stretches, it looks like it's going to be clear with high's in the mid-seventies, very pleasant.
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But she had a great time at A School nonetheless. She said she was more sad than happy at graduation, because she'd had such fun with the people in her class. I asked if the instructors had liked working with them and she said one of them said it was the best group he'd had in a long time, hard workers, but also a group that all got along, no "issues".
When I was visiting my mom's last month I drove to Yorktown, specially, to bring Rachel up for a weekend. I was worried the two of them would never see each other again otherwise, Rachel going off to far-flung places, my mom nearly 87. Driving back and forth on I-95, each time I saw the "Fredericksburg" exit I thought of you. Or would I have to get off somewhere else if I'd wanted to drive out your way?
Now Rachel's basking in being a first-time car owner. We sold her our car, the one she learned to drive on when it was new in 2005, at a super "daughter rate". She's out in it now, getting her hair cut before we leave. I hope our the car we've ordered to replace it gets here while I'm gone, or I'm going to be taking the bus!
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I just checked and our route on MapQuest and hypothetically it will be just over 2100 miles. We'll be driving a bit over 2450, because we are going to drop south to drive through the Colorado Rockies. Let me look that up in km's.... ah, 3942. That's pretty far. We could drive it in fewer days. Some people drive twenty-four hours a day, rotating drivers. But we're not going to do that. We want to enjoy the trip. I think 9 - 10 hours a day of driving is long enough, especially since I get creaky sitting in the same position for that long, lol. We're not spending a lot on hotels (I booked what I could find that looked decent enough but cheap), and Rachel gets a modest travel allowance from the Coast Guard that will pay her back for it in the end.
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Enjoy the time with your daughter on your trip. I wish her all the very best for her future. It seems like it will be a bright one.
Safe journey.
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Thanks for the good wishes, Maewyn. :)
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Love,
Julchen
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