Moving to L.A: Day One on the Road
Sunday, August 17th, 2008
We wanted to get started around 7am. It was an ambitious deadline, and made a very pretty whooshing sound as it flew by. By the time we packed every square inch of our cars with the remaining boxes, luggage, etc. it was about 8:30. We finally rolled out around 9am.
We had three vehicles: one 2007 Toyota Sienna carrying my wife, two kids, my mother-in-law, and the luggage/boxes of Amusing Goods for the kids, one cat and one frog, one 2006 Lexus carrying my father-in-law, one child, and several musical instruments, and a twenty-six foot Penske diesel trunk, which I was piloting.
There is a silent agreement, perhaps even a vow which is taken by any group of people who travels together. It’s the only way to make it across country in a decent amount of time. Usually, it stands at the marker to switch drivers, stretch legs, etc. This is the Vow of Holding It. If you can synchronize the pee schedule, you can actually make decent time.
We didn’t and it cost us.
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