Bored in Ventura

Well, actually Camarillo. I'm here on my annual Memorial Day out-of-town trip. Which, for the past few years, has been here. A really easy trip, it involves bringing my passengers up to Camarillo on Thursday, late, after all the traffic. Then, Friday morning I take them to the boat landing where they board a boat for Channel Islands National Park. I go take care of my business (dump the head, get diesel fuel), and I'm basically done and on my own until 1800 or so on Monday. Pick up the hikers, stop immediately for dinner, and head back to San Diego after the worst of the returning holiday traffic is over. What's not to like? Well, just gets a bit boring. I do have the laptop, and a semi-decent Internet connection, and a TV, and a book, and walking shoes, and a Fry's Electronics about 5 miles from here. I can drive the bus there, and did yesterday. But, otherwise, the bus stays parked. One thing I did do that was kind of fun; I set up Jacque with a Skype account before I left San Diego, so we could teleconference. Skype software is especially easy to use that way. It worked great! But, still, there's hours of "not much to do". I guess that's why they pay me to sit here, I'm not home with my wife. Doesn't happen all that often, so no big deal. Next trip (AFAIK) is 4th of July, also a 5-day trip. Only, quite a bit more work on that one....