Three Days...

It's less than 72 hours 'til we leave on our 12-state, 5800-mile odyssey - and I'm nowhere near ready. Okay, maybe that's a stretch...I'm close...let's just say that there won't be a lot of leisure hours between now and Friday afternoon.

Who knew vacationing could be so much work?

I began planning this trip around Christmas-time last year. The Ware Family has only prior vacation under our belts (Summer 2004) so we're due for another. We've been saving for awhile (as to avoid the debt trap of '04...but let's not talk about that now) so at Christmas I said to the missus:

Me: We can go anywhere in the US that we can reach by car. Where do you want to go?

Missus: Seattle

Me: Really?!

Seattle's a great town and all, but those of you that know me know that I'm there every 4-6 weeks for work. I guess the tales of my travels piqued her interest - so Seattle it was.

It started out as a respectable three-week trip and has evolved into a month-long working vacation. It didn't take long to realize that the tension of being in the city where I do a lot of work for over a week without doing any work might cause some tension. So I decided to squeeze in a few days of work and strech the trip out another week.

As you've undoubtedly surmised, I've finally given in and started blogging. I've thought about blogging at work for some time now, but I thought it might be easier to begin having this conversation with friends. I started to say 'one-sided conversation' - then I realized that I don't just want to broadcast, I want to hear from you as well. Feel free to add your comments below.

My intent is to post frequent updates while we're traveling and to back off to a more sporadic schedule upon our return. I'm going to buy journals for the missus, the girl, and the boy prior to the trip. Hopefully I can persuade them to share some of their writings here as well.

Thanks for reading this all the way to the end :)

JDubFromTheHub