Dave and Sam playing a good game together…Dave is quite a strategic thinker but I think Sam will get him sooner or later!

So after weeks of planning and waiting, bags packed for 7 days, we reluctantly bought commercial tickets for a trip to San Diego to celebrate Thanksgiving with our family. Reluctantly not because of the gathering but that space-a didn’t work out for us this time. The only flight going anywhere near our destination had 22 people plus their families competing for 10 seats. Thankfully mom and Richard are helping us out with the airfare so we can join everybody and the boys are super excited about their trip 🙂 I was doing some reading tonight on the space-a message board to assuage my disappointment – reading about other people’s travails helps a bit  – and ran across one guy who posts about his accounts biking from Romania to Italy (about 70 miles) on his fold-up bike that he transports with him. Way to get around without the hassle of renting a car or figuring out bus schedules! That is SO awesome! Just wait until we retire…