For the Fourth of July weekend, we will be in a house in South Lake Tahoe that has a view of the fireworks. An odd assortment of family, my daughter, son-in-law, and grandsons Victor and Ryan will be there, as will Peter's aunt and her husband, Peter's parents, and Mary and I. Mary tells me I've met this aunt before, and if it's the one I'm thinking of, this could be a great weekend. I'm not so hot on going out for a weekend, particularly the Fourth. My daughter dug up an article that dubbed Tahoe's fireworks show the 5th most popular destination in the Country. I expect people to be "wall-to-wall," and traffic to be of nightmarish proportions, so we take our calm and smiling faces, as well as a good classical music CD, and we take what we get on Friday.
Most people will leave today (Thursday), to get as much weekend as they can. We don't have such conflicts, so we will start out tomorrow (Friday), and hope that we won't have a lot of traffic going up US-50. It's mostly two lane blacktop, with a few passing zones, getting out of Placerville, all the way to SLT. If the big trucks are out, it can be a long day. Worse are the gawkers who don't realize that the purpose of the extra left lane was to allow for PASSING!!! [OK, must get calm. I'm starting to project again, and I need to stop.] I don't think I've ever had road rage, I've seen some guys really get into it, but I'm not a violent person, per se. I found it much easier, driving in city traffic (both in Sacramento and San Francisco) if I'm listening to classical concertos, or something of that nature. Particularly Mozart. Of all of the classical Masters, he is my favorite.
I have a friend coming over to take care of Taz. He'll have slightly non-traditional feeding for two days, so I don't think he'll starve to death. I'm going to take my little Venue, and its remote keyboard, so I should be able to take plenty of notes, and have all of the gossip next week.
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