On the Road

Holiday travel is starting a little bit early for us this year. I'm taking a long weekend to visit friends, and then back to work next week, before the actual holiday time off begins. I thought about posting a traffic report today--we traveled for a while behind an oversize load that for some reason had an official escort that would sometimes block the freeway while the oversize load took up part of two lanes. We were experiencing traffic jams in the middle of nowhere for about fifty miles before we discovered what was causing it. There was nothing particularly distinctive about the truck with the wide load, so I don't know if it had something to do with the military or other national security matter, but that would be my only guess for why it had the extra-special attention.

Anyway, all that to say, I'll be checking in from time to time over the weekend, but I may not have the chance to spend a lot of time in front of the screen. There are a couple of posts I've been working on that I might try to polish up a bit, but it may end up being a slower blogging period.