Meltdown...
Aug. 20th, 2004 12:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jayIn travel, sometimes one hits a day when everything and everyone suddenly goes awry. Wednesday was like that.
One of our group, J, lost her car keys. So... we scoured the beach and campsite. No luck. We missed our ferry to Vancouver. Finally a locksmith cut a new key, and we broke camp and headed onward. Waited an hour in the heat for the next ferry, in midafternoon.
Received a text message on my cellphone fromgeekchick, while standing on the ferry, underway in the San Juan Islands. My cell mailbox is full. Tuesday afternoon (24 hours earlier) it was empty. Ulp. I called her from the ferry, getting a scratchy analog signal, and heard the news about eck. I sort of blanked after that... I remember wandering around the boat decks. Probably in shock... I had seen him just 12 days earlier, had hugged him after a visit to his new apartment. J found me in the bow and engaged me in conversation, bringing me back to the present. Sigh.
We checked into our Vancouver hotel, then headed to Chinatown. Found out that other travel plans had changed, by reading a sweetie's LJ. Got disturbing email from someone else. I was in bad shape emotionally, and was taking it out by snarling at everyone else. And Pat's fibromyalgia flared and it hurt her to walk...
Chinatown... it may be the largest in North America, but everything closes at 5pm! A shadow of what I remembered from the 1980s. So we found a pasta restaurant in Gastown andpatgreene and I bought everyone dinner.
The sunrise promised a good day, at least...
While searching up and down the beach for J's keys, I saw herons, rabbits... and this driftwood pagan altar space (rock in the table's center had a pentacle painted on it)?
More searching...
On the ferry from Victoria, a couple of minutes before I got Cathy's message.
5 adults, 11 kids, lots of noise... I was the only adult male, the other male spouses found reasons to stay at home (wry grin).
One of our group, J, lost her car keys. So... we scoured the beach and campsite. No luck. We missed our ferry to Vancouver. Finally a locksmith cut a new key, and we broke camp and headed onward. Waited an hour in the heat for the next ferry, in midafternoon.
Received a text message on my cellphone from
geekchick, while standing on the ferry, underway in the San Juan Islands. My cell mailbox is full. Tuesday afternoon (24 hours earlier) it was empty. Ulp. I called her from the ferry, getting a scratchy analog signal, and heard the news about eck. I sort of blanked after that... I remember wandering around the boat decks. Probably in shock... I had seen him just 12 days earlier, had hugged him after a visit to his new apartment. J found me in the bow and engaged me in conversation, bringing me back to the present. Sigh.We checked into our Vancouver hotel, then headed to Chinatown. Found out that other travel plans had changed, by reading a sweetie's LJ. Got disturbing email from someone else. I was in bad shape emotionally, and was taking it out by snarling at everyone else. And Pat's fibromyalgia flared and it hurt her to walk...
Chinatown... it may be the largest in North America, but everything closes at 5pm! A shadow of what I remembered from the 1980s. So we found a pasta restaurant in Gastown and
patgreene and I bought everyone dinner.The sunrise promised a good day, at least...
While searching up and down the beach for J's keys, I saw herons, rabbits... and this driftwood pagan altar space (rock in the table's center had a pentacle painted on it)?
More searching...
On the ferry from Victoria, a couple of minutes before I got Cathy's message.
5 adults, 11 kids, lots of noise... I was the only adult male, the other male spouses found reasons to stay at home (wry grin).
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Date: 2004-08-20 07:34 pm (UTC)This says it's info from Wednesday. Where are you now?
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Date: 2004-08-20 08:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-20 08:08 pm (UTC)Drugs.
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Date: 2004-08-20 08:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-20 07:51 pm (UTC)Er, that's not entirely correct.