Bob was driving back to SF today so I took the morning off to have coffee w him. Then made an early lunch. Then took a shower. The decided it would be 12:30 or 1:00 before I was on the snow so I’m giving my knees the day off. But I was going to get cabin fever if I stayed in the condo and the sun is out so I walked up to the village for a coffee and to look at skis. 

TrueNorth has nothing interesting left in my size. So I’m window shopping, in street clothes, with my Starbucks latte. I feel like one of the people I pass on my way down to the shuttle after skiing, who are obviously just hanging out while their friends and family ski and I wonder why? Yet here I am, in the village and waiting for my kids, having not skied today. 

It’s Friday. Time to commute to Tahoe.  Since its February Brak, aka Ski Week, we’re here for 10 days. 

And I hate dealing w the Truckee Safeway. So I brought:

Apples 12 (5.5 pounds)

Asian pears 3×5 (3.5# each) plus 6-8 loose

Oranges 2×8# (15-16 per bag)

Pears 12

Bananas 12-14

Blueberries Quart

Blackberries Quart

Plus 2 loaves of ciabatta, 1.5 loaves of sliced bread, bags of lettuce from the yard, 2 bunches of kale… 

Arrived Mill Camp, on the ride C’d already eaten: blueberries, 2 bananas, 2 Asian pears, 3 oranges. To be fair, I think HBG got hold of some of the blueberries. 

You’d clock this as a 4 hour trip. Left SF at 7:05, arrived Mill Camp at 11:00. But that ignores that Lib and left the house at 5:;0, drove to Kezar to get Clem from track practice that ended at 6:00, then drove to Townsend and 4th to get Bob. Who’d left for Public House to get a burger and beer so we sat in car and waited for him for 30 minutes. 

So my commute was more like 5 1/2 hours.