Movement

And then there’s movement. Staff have started returning to LAUSD campuses this week for special services, and a tentative start date for hybrid school is April 9th, as I predicted. I have no idea what that will look like - for sure it will shake up our now well established at home system, and I’m not looking forward to that aspect. But it will sure make the usual March slog easier to get through knowing there’s a definite end point! Now if we can just keep up the rapidly declining numbers and the variants don’t fuck everything up, we’re in great shape. 

Last night I finally pulled the trigger and booked our ten day summer trip I am calling the Great Southwest Road Trip. We begin with a night at a tiny house near Vegas as a good in-between point: 

Next we move on to a Conestoga wagon for two nights to check out Bryce Canyon:

Then, three nights at an earth hogan in Navajoland for Lake Powell and (hopefully) Antelope Canyon - I pretty much built the entire trip around this place: 

A stay in shepherd’s wagons near Zion National Park:

And a final stay in a cave house on our way back on the edge of Arizona:

I’ve booked these spots based on their uniqueness, not so much proximity or cost, so this trip is not going to be cheap and there’s a lot of driving that wouldn’t be necessary if I were just camping in tents or staying at hotels. But it’s all about the accommodations, so that’s what I prioritized. The BF’s car may not be able to handle this level of trip, so I may have to also rent a car (mine is too small). But I feel a certain urgency to make this trip now as it’s probably the last summer ever I won’t be working on an event and the BF *might* not have a ton of work still. I doubt we’ll have this kind of flexibility again. Now’s the time to get away as much as we can. I have us out of town practically every weekend this summer.