Time to wipe the eye caca and get our trip going… The first step is leaving our place to pick up the other members of our party. It's really nuts but somehow we've committed to travelling in a group that will at its max size have 30 people!

Now I've gotta get up at the ass-crack of dawn and collect the other travelers.

The really nice thing about getting around town this week early in the morning is that there is practically no one on the roads. The smart folks have already skipped town before Christmas week and those left behind are starting to take time off now.