Sea of Opportunities

 Spent the last 3 days driving over 1300 miles round trip so my son could check out Marietta College and Mercyhurst University.  He's been accepted to both, has financial offers to row at both, but they are only 2 of the dozen he's been accepted to.  We've made a few trips - down to Florida, Washington, DC, PA, MD and now Ohio as well.   I really liked Marietta, and I'm hoping he leans that way - they seem to have the most to offer academically - but we'll see.  I did enjoy spending some quality one on one time with him.  I told myself that this may be the last trip him and I take together - so I didn't really worry too much about my diet.  I didn't track my macros.  I even had dessert - and it was GOOD !  Came home, and stepped on the scale the first morning, only to find out it was at a new low !!  How TF this happens, I have no idea.  But I'm not complaining.  It was the incentive I needed to not even take a day off fro...

  Last weekend my son and I took the opportunity to go visit a couple more colleges he's been accepted to.  Normally this would have been a fun trip, find out about the schools, have a few meals together, and check out the surrounding areas.  Of course, the timing of this trip was completely wrong - we left and after 6 hours of driving, ran into a snow storm.  I had checked and knew it was going to happen, so it wasn't a surprise.  I just squeezed my rental in between to 18 wheelers and managed to get to our destination still doing 75+ mph.  Those truck drivers on a whole are amazing - anytime I have to drive that kind of distance, especially in bad weather, I try and get behind one (but far enough back that they can see me)   I almost felt as if I should wave thank you when we part.    Anyway - it snowed the entire time we were out and about - I carefully planned the time on the road so that we would miss the worst of it - and it worked...