This should be easy, having landed myself on the coast. Unfortunately, the ginormous highways out here are extremely intimidating. The 7 lane stretch makes it easy to get in the wrong lane and miss your exit. And non-highway roads are not any better. They're huge! Fortunately, U-Turns are legal. I made them in Boston, too, but they're not encouraged in Boston like they are in LA! Without them, it's almost impossible to get around. Instead of "can type X words per minute", I am going to put "can make X U-turns per minute" on my resume. This brings me to Step 4 in becoming a PT: Get lost then find your way. This is more productive than it sounds. Think of it as exploring...
Step 3: Save money and not time by taking flights that include stops. Ugh, 3 hours of sleep, 12 hours of travel time, a terrible cold, almost-missed flights, and...what? a PT Cruiser? I'm finally in sunny SoCal and I am pretending that I have more purpose and money than I actually do, and I am being sent off sniffling and exhausted in a PT Cruiser? But, what about my Mercedes, my Mini, my Mustang? I am, after all, near Hollywood and the beach and rich middle-aged men in crisis'. I thought for sure I could live out my movie star dreams in style. But, like I said, it coulda been a Rav4. This is my reconciliation with the Car Rentalship (as opposed to a dealership :-). I guess it does serve for poetic justice...and, to be fair, I never had any movie star dreams anyway.
Even the unemployed deserve a break. Some time in the middle of no where with your family and their new dog will do the trick. Two weeks without work, friends, internet, phone service, coffee, human contact...well, it all sounded good to me! Except for the coffee part...
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