I’m hittin' the road on Sunday for a little R&R — rest and Rochester-ization.
I’m off from work Sunday, Monday or Tuesday, so it’s a good opportunity to head upstate and reconnect with some friends and family members who I don’t see nearly often enough. I loathe the long drive up the Thruway -- which I’m doing alone (ugh!) — but what’s waiting at the other end is good for the soul.
I’ve already made plans to get together with two friends from my high school days — hard to believe it was more than 25 years ago — and I’ll hook up, too, with my college roommate and his family, my wife’s brother and his family, and my father-in-law and his wife. Oddly absent will be my own parents, who are blowing me off to spend most of the week on Cape Cod with my sister and her family. Can’t blame them, though. I’m one of Cape Cod’s biggest fans and most frequent visitors, and I sure wouldn’t turn down an opportunity to go there. (My time is coming: Rhona, Marc and I are spending a week there in late August. You’ll know I’m there when you notice a weeklong gap in my blog postings.)
The downside to these Rochester trips is that I always eat WAY too much — because the get-togethers with friends and family tend to be at restaurants for lunch or dinner, and I have no clue how to eat light at restaurants. So I’ll have to work off the weight at the end of the trip. Perhaps a long WALK down the Thruway on the way home will do the trick. By my calculations, it should only take a little over four days.