Gaggles
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So a couple months ago I was itching for a road trip. I was seriously considering driving from Canada and then flying JR to Vegas for a fun SW adventure before flying her back to the Great White North and then driving back myself. JR gets much less time off than I do so we have to maximize her time. Now, a road trip is a fabulous time don’t get me wrong. But that 16ish hour drive back home through Idaho, Utah, and Montana just didn’t raise my skirt. Just driving through Montana takes 5 hours. I’ve done it in the past and while driving down is a good time, driving home is less exciting.
After costing things out and in consideration of the cheap flights out of Kalispell, Montana versus Calgary’s stupidly high costs, it made no sense to put 5000 km (3100 miles for my American brothers and sisters) on my car, plus gas and hotels etc. Though the freedom of not catching flights or returning a rental is liberating when you have your own vehicle, the price to benefit was not there.
Long story short, The Gaggles are driving to Kalispell tomorrow and catching a ride to Vegas. We shall rent a car versus grinding down my own vehicle to break up the Vegas on either side.
Our itinerary includes, in no particular order, Vegas, Zion, Bryce Canyon, Lake Powell, Mesquite, and Vegas. Actually…that is the exact order. We will be in Lake Powell for our 7th anniversary. I am pretty sure JR rented us a seadoo for the day
If you are opposed to gluttonous, excessive drinking this may not be the trip report for you. If you are opposed to the possibility of reading my TR before bed and then waking up for work to find me STILL posting live from a random casino and feeling my all-night gambling is grotesquely irresponsible, this may not be the trip report for you. If you are opposed to the occasional needless, some would argue slightly exploitive picture of JR in a bikini, this may not be the trip report for you. If you seek refined behaviour and fine dining, I would respectfully direct you to another Trip Report. Some of us might consider fine dining to be a barely touched room service tray that we find in a hallway at the end of a hard night of drinking.
And in fact, to give you an indication of how hard we are going, I am literally going to see a lawyer today to get my will, power of attorney and personal directive done in order. Now if that isn’t commitment to decadence you tell me what is?
And the “Aces with a kicker” on all of this, JR is going home towards the end of the trip and letting me stay in Vegas for the NFL opening weekend. Three day of Gaggles without supervision.
Now if you will excuse me, I have to finish packing.
I am gonna go “Super Himalaya” fast.
After costing things out and in consideration of the cheap flights out of Kalispell, Montana versus Calgary’s stupidly high costs, it made no sense to put 5000 km (3100 miles for my American brothers and sisters) on my car, plus gas and hotels etc. Though the freedom of not catching flights or returning a rental is liberating when you have your own vehicle, the price to benefit was not there.
Long story short, The Gaggles are driving to Kalispell tomorrow and catching a ride to Vegas. We shall rent a car versus grinding down my own vehicle to break up the Vegas on either side.
Our itinerary includes, in no particular order, Vegas, Zion, Bryce Canyon, Lake Powell, Mesquite, and Vegas. Actually…that is the exact order. We will be in Lake Powell for our 7th anniversary. I am pretty sure JR rented us a seadoo for the day
If you are opposed to gluttonous, excessive drinking this may not be the trip report for you. If you are opposed to the possibility of reading my TR before bed and then waking up for work to find me STILL posting live from a random casino and feeling my all-night gambling is grotesquely irresponsible, this may not be the trip report for you. If you are opposed to the occasional needless, some would argue slightly exploitive picture of JR in a bikini, this may not be the trip report for you. If you seek refined behaviour and fine dining, I would respectfully direct you to another Trip Report. Some of us might consider fine dining to be a barely touched room service tray that we find in a hallway at the end of a hard night of drinking.
And in fact, to give you an indication of how hard we are going, I am literally going to see a lawyer today to get my will, power of attorney and personal directive done in order. Now if that isn’t commitment to decadence you tell me what is?
And the “Aces with a kicker” on all of this, JR is going home towards the end of the trip and letting me stay in Vegas for the NFL opening weekend. Three day of Gaggles without supervision.
Now if you will excuse me, I have to finish packing.
I am gonna go “Super Himalaya” fast.
