Home From FilkONtario

[billroper]

We are home from FilkONtario and really, really tired. The trip took a bit longer than we'd expected, despite excellent weather. The big glitch was a wreck that happened on the 401 while we were stopped at one of the enRoutes. Traffic was massively backed up, as the wreck forced traffic into a single lane on the shoulder. Given that they were just finishing cleaning it up as we passed by the scene of the accident, it's entirely possible that we would have been there when the accident was happening if we hadn't stopped, so the stop looked better and better, all things considered.

I had a good time at the con, but traveling long distances with the girls is being challenging. We need to figure this out.

Of course, we have a year before the next FKO...

Comments

[deborah_c]

When our kids were the age of your girls, we always used to break long journeys overnight by stopping at somewhere (often a pub) with nice food and rooms available within baby monitor range of the restaurant... That, of course, is for UK values of "long journeys", meaning we did about 3 hours travel each side of the stop, which is a bit impractical for North American values of "long" :-(

[billroper]

We actually break down the trip to FKO into two days -- it's the trip back that's the killer...