Hippocleides Doesn't Care » skiing http://www.teebiss.com/blog The Adventures Of Tom Bissell Sat, 03 Jul 2010 01:13:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 BRB http://www.teebiss.com/blog/2009/03/01/brb/ http://www.teebiss.com/blog/2009/03/01/brb/#comments Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:40:53 +0000 Tom http://www.teebiss.com/blog/?p=560 Going to Truckee with Yum this morning. We’ll be back in four days. It’s supposed to snow and/or rain the whole time we’re up there. Ahhh, it’s going to be so beautiful! I hope to make it over to Lake Tahoe (since it’s only 20 minutes away) to take in the scenery. Doesn’t look like we’re going to ski this time–we just can’t afford it.

BRB (be right back).

]]> http://www.teebiss.com/blog/2009/03/01/brb/feed/ 0 Let's go to Truckee again http://www.teebiss.com/blog/2009/02/25/lets-go-to-truckee-again/ http://www.teebiss.com/blog/2009/02/25/lets-go-to-truckee-again/#comments Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:39:41 +0000 Tom http://www.teebiss.com/blog/lets-go-to-truckee-again/ Yes, let’s!

But this time we’re going for longer. Sunday through Wednesday, is the plan.

Will we go skiing? Maybe!

]]> http://www.teebiss.com/blog/2009/02/25/lets-go-to-truckee-again/feed/ 0 The road to fun http://www.teebiss.com/blog/2008/04/16/the-road-to-fun/ http://www.teebiss.com/blog/2008/04/16/the-road-to-fun/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:11:34 +0000 Tom http://www.teebiss.com/wordpress/?p=441 When I was a kid, highway 80 was the road to fun. I would get sooo excited when we made that turn off 680 north and onto 80 east. Because I knew that we were on our way to do something really cool. I knew that we were going to Walt’s cabin in Truckee, or we were going skiing, or going to visit mom’s family in Sacramento.

When I got older, highway 80 was the road we took to No (Reno). “I wanna go to No, dude!” Dave or Scott would say, in a drunken stupor at 2 in the morning. Reno meant gambling and drinking and hotels and skiing and more stories to make and tell and retell.

When I moved to Chico, 80 was the highway I took when I was going home. Home, meaning *back* to Chico. Because for the short 3 years that I lived there, Chico felt more like home than any other place I’ve ever lived. And highway 80 meant that I was leaving the Bayarrhea, and that always feels good.

Highway 80 still means the road to fun. It means that Yum and I are off on another adventure. Walt’s cabin, Truckee, Lake Tahoe. Now I live in Vacaville, and I’m a stone’s throw from highway 80. It means that I’m now less than an hour’s drive up highway 80 to Scott and the boys in Roseville.

I take 80 every day to work. While I’m driving I think of all the fun times and good memories that highway 80 reminds me of. I’m thankful that I’m so lucky, that I get to live in such a great place. I arrive at work feeling peaceful and happy.

Thirty six years of driving highway 80 and I still get excited–every time. Because finally, I *live* on the road to fun.

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