Stop the presses -- we're going to DC!

Just a quick update here before I stow the satellite dish, possibly till Friday.

We got word today that our presidential inauguration tickets came through! I just got off the horn with the TrawlerFest people, and they were happy to switch our registration to the San Diego event at the end of February (actually, it turns out that they had mistakenly registered us there anyway, but that's another story), so we will not be under a time crunch to get out of DC.

So our new schedule looks like this:

Today through Friday we will be at Disney World, staying at Disney's Fort Wilderness. Friday night I expect to be back here for a night, after which we will start making our way toward Arcadia. We'll be at the Bussin' 2009 rally in Arcadia Sunday evening, 12/28, through New Year's day.

From there, we will head down to Fort Lauderdale, where our Trawler School charter runs from Monday through Friday, 1/5-1/9. After that, I expect we will spend a few days in the area, enjoying the warmth and relaxing. Since we'll need to be in DC by the 18th, there's really no point in trying to get down to the keys on this trip.

We'll start working our way slowly back up the coast through, perhaps, South Carolina, and then make a cobra-strike into DC on the 18th. We expect parking to be tight and weather to be foul, so we want to limit the time we are there. We need to pick up the tickets during the day on the 19th, which is why we need to be in town a day early.

I expect to be rolling back out of DC the very next day, 1/21. We'll start a southerly loop towards Phoenix immediately, and so will not be coming back this way through Florida. More on that plan after I've had some time to figure the logistics of DC.