No road trips here, I'm afraid. My freelancing isn't bringing in enough for fancy things like vacations and road trips and while Gav has a gig at the biggest box store (with the most interesting schedule ever), the bills get the bulk of his earning. And while he doesn't work that far from home, due to the highway and the river, (and odd over and under combination) there really is no straight line between here and there so it is too far to walk and he doesn't drive, so I get to provide the Uber-ish services. We are blessed enough to have a garage (which is so awesome in bad weather) but its at the back of the house and at 3:30am, my knees are not dealing with steps and traipsing thru the back yard (except on street sweeping days when the car needs to be off the main drag to avoid that $40 ticket), but usually the chariot awaits out front and once we pile in - it is a simple 3 right turns and a left to get him into the parking lot so he can start his day (and I can go back home to bed).
That folks is the extent of my road tripping these days - one round trip in the morning and one around 1pm. As far as schedules go - it isn't bad - although the store is open 24 hours, there isn't a lot of customers until closer to 10am and by then he's already had his 'lunch' break and the day is darn near over! But it's not like we haven't worked opposite schedules before - for many years, he worked night shift and I worked day shift - we were perpetual ships passing in the night! We shared 1 car between us which was ok - unless someone busted the schedule and got home late making the other person late and all hell broke loose, but... shrug. Life, you know? I miss the regularity of the paychecks of those days.
But we still get little adventures here and there - a trip to the green house over on 419 for potted plants & water plants for the pond; a trip to Hornings over on 501; I drove some ladies over to the Schuykill County fairgrounds a few weeks ago for the Wine Festival and made enough to treat us to chinese food! Sure they aren't grandiose adventures to Salem or Mt. Union or Ocean City, MD - but I still get out in the sunshine with some loud music on the stereo, wind in my face and driving at my speed and for a few minutes - the knees don't hurt, my pockets aren't empty, and all is right with the world. It IS a road trip!
That folks is the extent of my road tripping these days - one round trip in the morning and one around 1pm. As far as schedules go - it isn't bad - although the store is open 24 hours, there isn't a lot of customers until closer to 10am and by then he's already had his 'lunch' break and the day is darn near over! But it's not like we haven't worked opposite schedules before - for many years, he worked night shift and I worked day shift - we were perpetual ships passing in the night! We shared 1 car between us which was ok - unless someone busted the schedule and got home late making the other person late and all hell broke loose, but... shrug. Life, you know? I miss the regularity of the paychecks of those days.
But we still get little adventures here and there - a trip to the green house over on 419 for potted plants & water plants for the pond; a trip to Hornings over on 501; I drove some ladies over to the Schuykill County fairgrounds a few weeks ago for the Wine Festival and made enough to treat us to chinese food! Sure they aren't grandiose adventures to Salem or Mt. Union or Ocean City, MD - but I still get out in the sunshine with some loud music on the stereo, wind in my face and driving at my speed and for a few minutes - the knees don't hurt, my pockets aren't empty, and all is right with the world. It IS a road trip!
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