yesterday – 3:30 AM: only having just gone to bed 2 hrs ago, i’m staring at my phone confused as to how i just had a “sleepy mumble” when i don’t even recall picking up the phone. N called as D’s wife was having a health scare. She is in Seattle, about 1 month away from giving birth on bed rest. N wants to know if i’d be willing to drive them to Seattle. by the time this starts to sink in and i call N back to say i’ll do it, turns out D’s wife has spoken to her midwife and is ok. but as i’ve “woken up a bit” i am coherent enough to suggest we do it anyway so that D can be with his family.

i get dressed and by 4:20 we are on the road to Seattle.

it was amazing to watch the sun come up as we got closer to seattle. i am so glad that i was in the passenger seat. i finally got to take pictures of things i always tell myself, “oh if i had my camera and wasn’t driving right now . . .”

after dropping off D, N and I were starving, so we made our way to the amazing vegan wayward cafe for breakfast.

full, loopy and a bit del.irious we decided to head back to portlandia. it was an amazing trip.