{"id":904,"date":"2015-03-27T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/?p=904"},"modified":"2015-03-26T21:48:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T04:48:10","slug":"rode-hard-and-put-up-wet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/2015\/03\/27\/rode-hard-and-put-up-wet\/","title":{"rendered":"Rode Hard and Put Up Wet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do the words \u201cRode hard and put up wet” ring any bells? \u00a0That\u2019s Bill and I as we drive north on I-5 through northern California.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier today, after leaving Napa, we spent 45 minutes traveling five miles in a backup on I-80 where a collision with a half-mile long debris field had four lanes of traffic coned down to one. \u00a0Later, when we stopped for our Burger King two-for-one coupon Whopper, Bill exited the car and locked it while Bella and I were still inside. \u00a0When I opened the door, the alarm went off. \u00a0I managed to silence it, but in a way that turned off the automatic door openers. \u00a0Fortunately, several months ago, when the car battery was dead, a manager at the Speedway Enterprise location in Tucson showed us how to liberate the old fashioned non-electric keys that are hidden in the electronic fob. \u00a0So we managed to get into the car, finally. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Then, in the process of getting to the gas station across the street, the GPS went flying off the dashboard and landed on the floor. \u00a0When I picked it up to put it back, I must have punched a wrong button, one that made the lady in the machine want to send us back the way we had come.<\/span><\/p>\n

By the time we were back on I-505, we were both grousing at one another, and that\u2019s unusual. \u00a0Most of the time we travel the highways and byways with barely a ripple in our little sea of amenity. \u00a0What the grousing really means is that we\u2019re tired. \u00a0The driver is tired. \u00a0Bella is tired. \u00a0And the author is definitely tired.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the odometer, in two days under three weeks, we have traveled 2,478 miles. \u00a0I\u2019ve done 27 hour long presentations and signed countless books. Any number of people have told Bella how cute she is. \u00a0Bill has kept us moving safely through a spiderweb of strange (to us) California freeways. \u00a0You really do need to be born in Oakland to fathom how to get around there.<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve managed to adjust our luggage so we can get in and out of hotels in a single trip. \u00a0That takes plenty of advance planning. \u00a0As for hotels? \u00a0\u00a0We\u2019ve seen plenty of those. \u00a0I don\u2019t understand why they give you tiny plastic bags for ice and then put the button on the ice-machine in a place where you can\u2019t hold the bag and press the button at the same time.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m ready to be home in our own chairs where our clicker will allow us to fast-forward through commercials; where I\u2019ll know which side of the room contains the door to the bathroom; where Bella will not have to be walked on a leash; where we\u2019ll have access to our own coffee machine.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, book tours may sound glamorous, but there\u2019s a whale of a lot of nitty-gritty that goes along with book touring. \u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m ready for this one, the Cold Betrayal tour, to be over. \u00a0The problem is, my other publicity team is already working hard to set up the next one for Dance of the Bones.<\/span><\/p>\n

I remember how my mother used to say, \u201cThere\u2019s no rest for the wicked.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Based on that, Bill, Bella, and I, must be really BAD!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do the words \u201cRode hard and put up wet” ring any bells? \u00a0That\u2019s Bill and I as we drive north on I-5 through northern California. Earlier today, after leaving Napa, we spent 45 minutes traveling five miles in a backup on I-80 where a collision with a half-mile long debris field had four lanes of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tour-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3nsBA-eA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}