Road trip essentials

Past blogs on the road and me being alone and what i can't live without

I won't lie, I like to road trip alone. LOVE IT as a matter of fact, and I know that I have blogged on this before, so this will not warrant a large answer to the Plinky.com question. This list is based on the many a lone road trips I have made.



Besides all the safety car check list stuff:



1. Camera



2. Music, including back up music for when your radio decides to die in the middle of nowhere.



3. Tent and camping equipment.



4. Good old fashion map. No GPS for this stuff. I have never gone in for a GPS for a road trip, it ruins it. I would rather be fighting with myself than with a stupid machine.



5. Water and nibbles and a plastic bottle...trust me.



6. The ability to not care if you get to where you were going. That is my favourite part.







It has been so long since I have been on a lonely road trip that I might have to force one on myself, however I think my husband might object.

What I love about my home town

Gig Harbor and Mt Rainier

There are a couple of things I love about my home town, Gig Harbor, Washington (State, as I always have to add). I love the water, the trees and the fact that you can live on a 5 acre plot of land but still get to town in less than 10 minutes and the thing I love the most, is the awesome view of the great MT. RAINIER.



I have been away from my home town for 6 and a half years now and SO MUCH has changed. There are things that I used to love that don't exist anymore like the "quaintness" of the Harbor itself (downtown Gig Harbor doesn't seem to exist anymore and has been moved up town where a mass conglomeration of grocery stores, banks and shops are. (They have new terminlogy like "uptown", I don't even know if I used the right place). The population has EXPLODED. Gig Harbor was always a growing, shall we just say it, suburb of SeaTac, but I never expected it to grow the way it has.



When I was young, I always cursed the new houses being built, especially housing developments. I hated all the mini vans, which led to SUV's (wow I have been gone that long that I had to google the term "HUV" because it didn't look right and it wasn't, I was looking for "SUV") that carry soccer mom's and their 2.3 children. I still gurgle under my breath and I probably let out a huge agonizing sigh of depression at the sight of these things, but I try not to let them get to me, mostly because my parent's retain their 5+ acres that are in the trees, near a beach access where there is a great view of Mt Rainier, and is about a 10 min drive to town (and Target and Costco if you wish). We don't even have a view of our neighbours.