We’re back! We had a fantastic trip down to Mt. Shasta (which is conveniently located exactly halfway between Seattle and LA, where our friends live). It is a gorgeous place- beautiful scenery, fantastic weather, tasty food! I’d definitely go back again.
And the kids even managed to hang the whole drive down. I got so much knitting done! I made it all the way past the gusset of the first sock in basically one go. It was fantastic.
However, the way back was a different story. Who knew that 2- and 5-year-olds didn’t want to 20+ hours sitting in the back seat of the car? Basically, what ended up happening was that my husband (the hero that he is) managed to wedge himself in-between the car seats in the back and entertain the kids the entire way back while I drove as fast as I could to get us home. So, obviously, I didn’t get the full knitting time I was hoping for. (Honestly, knitting on road trips is the only practical application I can see for self-driving cars.)
It was a fantastic trip, despite the lack of knitting time, and I’d do it again in a heartbeat (but maybe not for a couple weeks).
Do you prefer to be the driver or the passenger on a road trip?
On the Needles 
Totally agree that the only advantage for a self driving car is knitting time. I don’t even use cruise control for city driving. (uhh- control freak here). I would prefer to be the passenger but hubby’s health usually requires me to be the driver.
Totally passenger for a road trip!
Running around getting stuff done? I do that alone, I want to get where I’m going, do the thing, get the stuff, and get home to knitflix!