But what do you "do" on vacation?

When we had young children we used to take them to Kelowna or Vancouver, one year to Las Vegas. Vacation never really began until we got where we were going. All the whining and complaining (mostly from me) about how loooonng it took to get anywhere ensured that vacations were never fun until we had arrived! People say they are going to Los Angeles or Las Vegas or wherever and they have a thing to do there...go to Disneyland or go shopping or the beach or ....something.

Now First Lobster (my husband) and I go on vacations where the end point is just the point on the earth where we will turn around and come back. We came to Los Angeles again this year....why? Because it has good roads to ride our motorbikes on that we haven't been on yet.

Other people can drive to LA in 24 hours, switching drivers and driving straight through - their vacation begins when they get there. We take 6 days to get here (which includes one really light day, or entire day off) so our butts can have a rest.

We will not go to Disneyland. We will go shopping this year, but only because we went to the mall where they filmed Bad Santa or because we "needed" something from the cycle store we don't have in Canada. We will spend our days in the nearby hills/mountains riding twisty roads just for the joy that brings. Yes, there are twisty roads nearer to home, but we've been on a fair number of those and there are a few bragging rights to saying I road my bike "all the way" to LA (and home again too actually).

So see you laters the twisties are calling me to nothing more than drive them!