A lot of my time on the web is linked very closely to my time as a child / teenager traveling with my parents. My mom and I always loved to travel together and she would get me to research and book things for us, starting from age 10 or so. So it has been almost 30 years of doing this.
I'm extremely good at picking and buying flights, train tickets, bus tickets, hotels,.. anywhere in the world. it was a superpower i went on to leverage in my own personal life (i was always able to get places with minimal stress because i have excellent travel agent skills). like, i actually enjoy doing it. i still do.
I've been planning things for them this entire trip. (My parents live 8800 miles away) They don't need luxury, but of course cleanliness and comfort are important.
Yesterday, we made it to LA hitching a ride with a friend from Monterey. She prefers to drive the back roads instead of the 5, so we also got to see much more interesting scenes. The vast farmlands of central California that go on, and on.
When we arrived in Los Angeles, we had ramen, gyoza, pork buns.
This morning, they are off on a bus adventure by themselves to get dimsum from Chinatown. After many years in California my breakfast repertoire has expanded to also include tacos for breakfast, so I am going to do that myself at Tacos 1986 or Guisados.
