Making Plans

8.12.10 Laguna Niguel, Stephanie's

Yesterday was a day of seeing how this staying in the flow and making plans and then readjusting the plans, takes work. It seems to involve a couple of different components. One is that you need to be able to look at options. I feel that this is one of my strengths, the ability to see a variety of options, the ability to be able to communicate them and then try to move through the options and choose one and act on it.

We had planned to get going early and Ted was going to have the oil changed in the Tahoe. I would stay back and get the Airstream ready for us to store while we went south into the mass of cars that it is Los Angeles and points further south. We had planned on having lunch with my life long friend Nancy McDonough and then to go to Stephanie's and spend quite a few days with her.

I got sick in the night and was literally up all night going to the bathroom. Usually I can identify what I have eaten that caused the problem, but this time I was uncertain. We had had subway sandwiches which are usually a winner for me, so maybe it was the tortilla soup that we also had there, I am not sure. In any case once my stomach died down, I was able to get some sleep and really did not get up to start working on preparations until Ted got back from having the oil changed. We were way off schedule and we realized that we were even backed up against the time frame that they wanted us to get out of our RV space at the campground.

Then Ted called the storage people again and found out that he needed to go back to other military base where he had just been to register the Airstream and pay for the nights that we were going to be storing it. There was no rhyme or reason to this because the storage facility was on the base that we were on and why you needed to go over to the other base seemed a little ridiculous...

So now we needed to make new plans... we were clearly not going to make it to LA for lunch, now how about an early dinner? Nancy had been texting and waiting for us down in LA and we were doing our best to get all of the stuff situated in the right vehicle and pack for our trip, throw away food in the fridge and store things that did not need to make the trip to LA with us.

Making new plans not only involved communicating with each other, communicating with Nancy and Steph, but also dealing with the military regs. When Ted got back from paying for the storage, I had finished all the prep work that I could, but he said he had to make an appointment to have the guy who dealt with the storage come over from one base to the other to open up the gate at the storage facility and let us in... Yikes!!! So we ended up waiting there for fifteen minutes before he came to let us in. Make a new plan Stan... Is the last line, "