...my family and I will be on the road to Disneyland!
Yes, the trip starts today. I'm writing this entry ahead of time (on Monday afternoon) to ensure I don't forget. Anyway, the plan is for us to get up at 3:00 AM, put the kids in their car seats (we'll have them sleep in their travel clothes), and hit the road, hopefully getting through Portland, OR before rush hour commences.
En route, we're planning on doing a bit of letterboxing here and there (letterboxing is a hobby in which people carve rubber stamps and hide them, providing clues to their location on a web site... when you find one, you stamp your logbook with the stamp you've found, and stamp your own stamp in the logbook at the location before hiding it again), and may be making a few touristy type stops here and there (there's a "Paul Bunyan" statue in Oregon I'd love to check out). We'll be making our first stop for the night in Redding, CA, and then making the second leg of the trip on Friday, arriving at Santa Clarita, CA for another hotel night (yes, I know that's like two hours away from Disneyland). On Saturday, we'll travel the rest of the way to Disneyland, the first of five days there and at California Adventure. Plans call for visiting the park first thing in the morning, and then around lunchtime heading out for a meal break and to give the kids a chance to recover, and then heading back in around dinner time.
We're hoping to dine at a few restaurants featured on Food Network's "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives," and of course, we'll be hitting an In-N-Out Burger at least once!
Even though we'll be taking Jessi's laptop with us, chances are I won't get a chance to catch up on comments here or on the other blogs until I return... but I will catch up sooner or later!