Posts Tagged “tropical storm hanna”

*sigh*  It’s always challenging for me to leave my family after spending a week with them at the beach. I start to get used to the luxury of hanging out with my nieces and nephews every day. They’re great kids and I really enjoy spending time with them. I’ll definitely miss them. But alas, our OC trip is over.   In a way, it’s probably good that it is over, because I don’t know how much more abuse my body can take. As Isabel mentioned in an earlier post, I did a head plant into the ocean floor while trying out my new boogie board. I received a nice goose egg for the effort. Also, the repeated tumbling I suffered from the waves has put my back in quite a state. Always a good starting point for a 5 week road trip.

So anyway, we actually left OC an evening early because of this:

Somewhere under that green/orange/red blob is Maryland. We heard yesterday that there was talk of closing the Bay Bridge to traffic on Saturday if the winds picked up. We decided that was reason enough to pack up early and head home. We still ran into some treacherous conditions last night, but we managed to make it back to DC around midnight. So now we’ll have two full nights in our own apartment before heading west for the next leg of our journey. We’re trying not to get too comfortable.