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Lots of traveling this summer
Aug. 20th, 2007 10:10 am(or what I've been up to in the past month or so)
To catch up a bit... first up was the trip to Canada the weekend HP7 released (all our copies of the books have been Canadian editions and we didn't feel a pressing need to change for the last one). We've discovered we really love using the Alder Grove border crossing. It seems to be popular with Canadians, so there's generally quite a lineup southward in the mornings when we're going north, and northward in the evenings when we're coming back south. Even better, Langley is just across the border and has really been booming lately, so if we just want to run up for a shopping trip, it's only about a two and a half hour drive now (instead of the nearly four hour drive we've sometimes had when we went into Vancouver proper).
( There's now a CostCo in Langley, which is where we snagged the book and scoped out some of the Canadian foods we like... )
After that, I had a quick overnight trip to my dad's place north of Spokane, so that I'd be on the correct side of the state the next morning for an appointment with an orthopaedic surgeon down in Colfax (about two hours south). There's a pair of orthopaedic surgeons there that are, quite frankly, so good at what they do they can afford to live in the middle of nowhere and people will come to them. They do general OS stuff, but they specialize in exactly the sort of shoulder injury I've been dealing with since the car accident. I'll go into it a bit more later, but the upshot of my visit is that I'll be having surgery on the shoulder in September sometime (it would have been sooner, but I won't be able to drive for at least a month afterward, and I've got this trip to Louisville and Atlanta coming up at the end of August).
( Next up was another trip to the other side of the state about a week or so later for my dad's induction ceremony as the new postmaster for Fairchild AFB. )
Of course, I've already talked a bit about the rather sudden trip down to Utah for the funeral... I ended up being home for a bit less than 18 hours between coming home from my dad's place and leaving for that one. It was definitely too much driving and made me realize that I definitely do not want to go to my high school reunion next weekend, after all. There are a few people I wouldn't mind reconnecting with, but I've found ways of tracking them down online, so it's not as urgent that I go. I only attended that school for two years, so it's not like we're talking about lifelong friends I've lost contact with. OTOH, I was really happy to see that the whole thing was going to be fairly informal... for the adults, a pot-luck gathering on Friday night at the school with a small fee at the door to help pay for the costs and then a bring-your-own-picnic deal the next day at one of the local lakes for people to bring their families. Still, I really can't handle that much driving all in a row (since I'd be leaving for Louisville two days after coming home from the reunion if I went), and airfare to Spokane is way too high to justify.
To catch up a bit... first up was the trip to Canada the weekend HP7 released (all our copies of the books have been Canadian editions and we didn't feel a pressing need to change for the last one). We've discovered we really love using the Alder Grove border crossing. It seems to be popular with Canadians, so there's generally quite a lineup southward in the mornings when we're going north, and northward in the evenings when we're coming back south. Even better, Langley is just across the border and has really been booming lately, so if we just want to run up for a shopping trip, it's only about a two and a half hour drive now (instead of the nearly four hour drive we've sometimes had when we went into Vancouver proper).
( There's now a CostCo in Langley, which is where we snagged the book and scoped out some of the Canadian foods we like... )
After that, I had a quick overnight trip to my dad's place north of Spokane, so that I'd be on the correct side of the state the next morning for an appointment with an orthopaedic surgeon down in Colfax (about two hours south). There's a pair of orthopaedic surgeons there that are, quite frankly, so good at what they do they can afford to live in the middle of nowhere and people will come to them. They do general OS stuff, but they specialize in exactly the sort of shoulder injury I've been dealing with since the car accident. I'll go into it a bit more later, but the upshot of my visit is that I'll be having surgery on the shoulder in September sometime (it would have been sooner, but I won't be able to drive for at least a month afterward, and I've got this trip to Louisville and Atlanta coming up at the end of August).
( Next up was another trip to the other side of the state about a week or so later for my dad's induction ceremony as the new postmaster for Fairchild AFB. )
Of course, I've already talked a bit about the rather sudden trip down to Utah for the funeral... I ended up being home for a bit less than 18 hours between coming home from my dad's place and leaving for that one. It was definitely too much driving and made me realize that I definitely do not want to go to my high school reunion next weekend, after all. There are a few people I wouldn't mind reconnecting with, but I've found ways of tracking them down online, so it's not as urgent that I go. I only attended that school for two years, so it's not like we're talking about lifelong friends I've lost contact with. OTOH, I was really happy to see that the whole thing was going to be fairly informal... for the adults, a pot-luck gathering on Friday night at the school with a small fee at the door to help pay for the costs and then a bring-your-own-picnic deal the next day at one of the local lakes for people to bring their families. Still, I really can't handle that much driving all in a row (since I'd be leaving for Louisville two days after coming home from the reunion if I went), and airfare to Spokane is way too high to justify.
