Drive, Drive, Drive

Korrin B.

September 20, 2010 - 10:15 AM

This past week, I have covered some ground. Please don't tell my fellow Planning, Public Policy and Management majors, as I'm sure I will be shunned for my excess gas usage.

Anyway, it was a lot of time, a little exhausting, but overall very nice to just cruise. I started in Eugene and then drove down to my hometown of Arcata, California first. I stayed there for a while, mostly spending time with my brother as he was moving to Irvine on the 7th to start school again.

After Arcata, I continued south to Napa. I spent a few days in Napa spending time with my aunt, cousin, uncle, and grandma. I love getting the chance to see them at least once a year and I'm hoping to make it back down there again this winter.

Come the 15th, a friend of mine from middle school was coming to visit me. She moved away our junior year in high school and I hadn't seen her for about five years. I was pretty excited. The plan was that she would take the shuttle from San Francisco to Napa and we would leave from there to Eugene. Unfortunately, I realized that I had to be back in Eugene on the 16th for a meeting after she had already booked her flight. Originally, we were going to meander our way back up California and spend some more time in Arcata before going up to Eugene and then flying her out of Portland.

Anyway, she missed her flight out of Salt Lake City, which ended up making her miss her shuttle to Napa. Therefore, I drove into the city to pick her up. It ended up working out just fine though, as I love San Francisco. We got the chance to walk around downtown a little bit and have some dinner before hitting the road. Someday, I would like to live in San Francisco.

We chose to break up the drive since it was late now, so we headed back to Arcata to spend the night and then wake up really early to hopefully make my noon meeting in Eugene on time (about a five hour drive away). We got back into Eugene just about noon. It had been a close one! All went well with the meeting though and we spent the next couple of days going around Eugene, including going to the Saturday football game against Portland State.

Sunday, the driving began again, as we came back down to Arcata to spend some time here before getting her up to Portland for her Saturday flight back to Utah.

Oh, and then I start school again on Monday. What a last couple of weeks of summer this has been!