Beach Bound

Getting ready here to get the bikes up off the kickstands for the first time since Monday, when we decided to use them, instead of donkeys, to pack our stuff across the highway to the swanky Marriott World Center for an IT conference.  We've been living it up here since then, Kev working the days away from the room while Donna attends sessions downstairs.  The laptops are the only things left to be loaded.

At first, said conference was an inconvenience, having come up just as the plans for our Key West trip were being finalized and rooms booked.  Donna was suddenly looking at flying home from Florida on Thursday prior to our vacation, having to immediately do laundry and pack again, this time for the bike, to turn around next day and ride her ass right back to Florida. What was originally said almost as a joke ended up becoming reality: since I work from home more days than not to begin with, let's try to put 5 of them together and ride down a week earlier.  Why not?  If I could get that approved, we could easily make the trip over the weekend, and maybe get a head start on Friday.  We got both the approval and the head start, and now we're one work day away from starting our vacation at a pool bar on Daytona Beach 4:01 pm on Friday, as if Jeannie had blinked us there.

In the meantime, we made the most of our evenings, Lyfting around Orlando and working in a fantastic dinner in Disney Springs with an old friend who had handled service on Donna's first bike before I landed the job. We promised to visit him after he moved back home to Florida, and we did!

We're taking a different route around Orlando to avoid having to deal with all that nonsense again, plus rush hour thrown in.