California river rocks

While we've got plenty of fun stuff about which we want to write- spending time with friends and family in the Bay

Steve, Bb and our close friend Keith

Area- at the moment we are sitting out in front of a Panera Bread shop, sipping coffee, waiting for one of Jocelyn's accounts to open up for the morning.

Oh, and we are in Georgia.

Our introduction to the area hasn't been all that great so far. That could be on account of the fact that we took the redeye out of San Francisco last night (this morning?) so our bodies are feeling like we got up at about 3 am after getting about two hours of really uncomfortable sleep. That could be it. Or it could have something to do with the fact that Steve took a somewhat devil-may-care attitude about getting us a rental car reservation but failed to take into account the notion that there wouldn't actually be any people in the rental car kiosks in the airport at 5:45 am (local time). Or it could be that despite having signs at the rental kiosks saying "we have cars", the only "car" that Alamo had is a Minivan that costs about twice as much per day as a smaller, more comfortable, more fuel efficient vehicle.

It just might have something to do with the fact that the very nice woman behind the counter at the Alamo (actually National, but same building, same counter, same cars...) couldn't (wouldn't?) do much for us in terms of giving us something that resembled a deal on the car and thus we opted to save ourselves about $50 and just put Steve on the contract, so now he is the official chauffer of this leg of our journey.

It is just as likely that the cause of our initial discontent is Steve's inability to effectively merge and therefore completely miss our exit on the highway, which resulted in a few extra miles of driving and an extremely slow-speed viewing of five or six cars which had crashed earlier. Slow because we (and a hundred or three other cars) were stuck in stop and go for 10 minutes, all of which would have been avoided had Steve been paying attention to where he was supposed to be driving.

And speaking of accidents, we've seen more of them in the last hour than in the last month. Crazy. Must be something special in the air today.

If all of the above isn't enough, when Jocelyn finally found us coffee (mmmmm, coffeeee) the girl behind the counter shortchanged Steve a dollar. She coughed it up when he pointed out the mistake, but the whole situation gave the distinct impression that it might not have been a mistake. Taking advantage of people before they've had coffee is just plain wrong....

But now, coffee in belly and correct change in pocket, we are sitting here enjoying free WiFi, getting directions to where we need to go next, and looking forward to heading off to Savannah. Pictures to follow as soon as we take some.

Labels: california, photo, travel