Into a Writer's Head

On the road again...

It's a very good thing that Mom and me get along well. Also that we are able to laugh at ourselves. Especially considering our excursion yesterday. It was frought with opportunities for one or both of us to lose our cool.
it started out great. for all of you who don't know it, we always try to leave early, which really means leaving late. We actually left on time yesterday. We were cruising along, having a blast. We get through the border crossing with no problem (though there was a huge back up of people trying to get back into the US). Of course, once we get through and look at the map, we realize we're going to have to find our way west somehow, because we're on the wrong highway. The way we were going, we'd actually by-pass Vancouver, which was not the plan.
So, we stop and get directions, and make our way down 10 toward 99. I (as navigator) see signs for 99 North, and tell mom to go to the right, but then we rethink it and say go straight (cuz darn it, the sign was confusing). Needless to say, we get on 99, and drive and drive and drive. Eventually Mom starts to wonder if we're on the right road, which according to the part of the map i'm looking at, we should be. But if we look at the street signs, it does not appear we are going the right way. One more stop to ask for directions later we find out we're on 99A, not 99. I'm sorry. That is just confusing!! at least put another number on there and make sure your signs show the A!!
4 hours of driving later we finally make it to Vancouver. Normally this is about a three hour drive. Good thing we were laughing about it.
We got to Stanley Park starved, and tracked down the Shuttle Trolley to hitch a ride up to Prospect Point for lunch. The trolley driver was a hoot. :D Sadly, i think i'm the only one who got her jokes. One lunch later we started walking down along the seawall. Of course, during lunch we realized that we really didn't know where the car was parked, or how to find it again. Sigh. More laughing.
But before anyone worries, we did find the car eventually. of course, it required another ride around the park on the trolley. And we eventually made it home.

posted by Erin @ 11:20 AM