I’ve never flown so many miles in such a short amount of time… but it was for the most worthy cause imaginable. Mom doesn’t want to fly alone anymore so I flew out Sunday to pick her up for a trip back Monday. Fly: BWI -> Denver -> San Jose. Drive to Los Osos. 10 hours later Drive to San Jose then FLY: San Jose -> Chicago (2 hour delay) -> BWI. Door to door in about 36 hours. Whew.
I was greeted into Morro Bay with probably one of the most beautiful sunsets I had seen in a long time if not ever. Bob and my cousins came to her house to see her off and hang out for a couple hours…. we had an amazing time and I met many of their kids for the first time. But it was early to bed for us so we could hit the road in the morning.
Mom hung in there throughout the journey and let me push her around in a wheel chair in Chicago while I drank beer waiting for our flight. I learned that mom reads the airline safety card cover to cover and that she actually enjoyed the convertible that we rented for the drive.
So you may ask, where was dad in all this? Well, he refuses to fly and took the train.
