On the Road
Jul30
They say opposites attract. Ryan enjoys getting up early… you can tell by his cheerful demeanor. Randie… not so much.
Here’s another road trip in Squid Row History:
Randie and Ryan
Tripping through married life…
They say opposites attract. Ryan enjoys getting up early… you can tell by his cheerful demeanor. Randie… not so much.
Here’s another road trip in Squid Row History:
I have been told, in no uncertain terms, that people who are cheerful before 6 a.m. Should be shot. But we morning people can’t help it! We try to be quiet and respectful, but we see morning as a lovely start to another great day. Please don’t hate us. Ryan and I, we thank you.
My morning habits changed drastically when I started drinking coffee. Having chosen to drink joe, my eyeballs PING open at 6 and it’s up and adam! I find that morning is when ideas flow… when the action happens, when things get going. I like it, actually.
Yeah, I’m with Judy: I’m an early morning person. Bright-eyed & etc. at 5:30 even before my first cup of coffee. And for the same reason: The morning! A new day! Why waste it abed?
When we travel to cons and such – also a combo of work and play – or do any kind of travel for a fun day, I’m exactly like Ryan. Leave while it’s still dark and have miles of road behind you by sunrise. My family lets me do this because they can sleep in the van and we stop for breakfast around 9am.
You are a morning master planner and action-maker. You get the bus moving and the day is in progress! Yup, mornings hold so much promise, don’t they!? I get so much done in the morning as opposed to after lunch. It’s a downhill slide after lunch, I’m afraid… you can see the graph… Peak is before noon… and after that… meh.
Yup, opposites attract. One of the givens of a new partnership is that each will naively believe they can convert the other. Eventually I, the morning person, realized my wonderful spouse was a genetically-wired night owl and I was just being irritating. Now I and our Monterey Jack terrier make sure our cheery entrances to the morning bedroom are carefully timed and preceded by an offering of coffee-in-bed.
I am thankful for every night-owl since part of the beauty of morning is the cool stillness, the temporary suspension of chatter and bustle while the morning light flows and grows.
It’s great that you found a way to celebrate the morning… and you get a nice walk with your dog. Finding good solutions rather than sulking is a good answer, and a positive way to handle things. Cheers!
Randie and I are from the same planet. All my ideas start to flow after 9 p.m. Irish, however–see that look on Rye’s face? That’s my honey, who thinks sleeping in is staying in bed till 6. Somehow we’ve made it work for 40 years. Think we have a shot at compatibility?
That cheerful waked up morning person weds sleepy-eyed night owl…. Opposites do attract… and somehow, through love and compromise, it works! Yay, for your 40 years!
If left to my own devices I wake up at 7 PM and go to bed 36 hours later. I am literally made tired by direct sunlight for reasons unknown, which cuts that cycle back to a more sane ‘going to bed by noon’. Needless to say I haven’t been involved in a relationship in over a decade. At the end of the day…… I get up. Night-life is the ONLY life for me!
Goodness, Trev… 36 hour runs? Whew… I get loopy after half that! I need my full 8 hours sleep and when I don’t get it, I am cranky. I feel like if I’m in bed passed 7, my whole day is off kilter. YOU have a definite different-like cycle!
Yeah, I once worked a week straight on the railroad (I was a brakeman at the time). I only started getting kind of weird during day 5. It’s a thing. Might explain why I’m irritable and cranky all the time!
But you’ve gotta be pretty young to survive it.
Me? 34 years old and a hundred more worth of aches.
Dang.
I am all about an early start. Ver will crash the first hour then we’ll get coffee and be a traveling pair to be reckoned with.
Look out! Jack n Ver on the loose… after Ver wakes up.
Been crazy busy, sorry to be so late in catching up. I love shooting photos at the Big Sur Marathon. I’ve been lucky to be assigned to shoot at Bixby Bridge each time. We head down around 5:30 am, have to be past Otter Cove before the close the road to southbound traffic! The twilight is just barely breaking when we park and we get to enjoy both the beauty of the sunrise on the bridge AND no road traffic. And then Michael Martinez playing on his Grand Piano for hours as the runners come streaming by (and we take photos). It’s a tough job but someone has to do it. 😉
Well, that somebody is YOU! What a tough job… I’m sure that you look forward to it every year!
Yeah, with or without coffee, there are very few scenic views that I have ever gone ga-ga for. I can take the outdoors in small doses (especially in the early hours), but much prefer my urban settings.
ARe you familiar with the series of books (and the website that started it all) called “Urban Sketching”? I love the sketchbooks (Moleskins) filled with drawings and sketches of urban landscapes.