Fear of Heights

On August 1, 2024, I wrote that the day before, Wednesday the 31st, I took the boys home after school. They were really helpful getting into the apartment, so they watched television while I started packing for our trip to Tahoe. I had the boys help getting supplies out, stuffing sleeping bags and clothing while I made dinner. After we ate, we got ready for bed and watched TV before bed.

The boys and I were up at 5:30 in the morning of the day that I wrote this. We ate and got dressed. Then we got our packs on and walked to Mission Street to catch a 14 to Transbay Terminal. I got some drinks and snacks at Starbucks.

The bus to Emeryville was OK. I got coffee at the station. I texted family and when we boarded, we went straight to the café car. Between Martinez and Roseville I opened my computer and worked my job. I had little problem working initially but later reception on my tether got a little difficult.

The boys played on their iPads until Colfax. One of my boys had a hard time looking into the American River Canyon because of his fear of heights. The other one kept trying to scare him about it.

As the evening began, I bought the boys hotdogs. I noted that the tracks were slowed for maintenance. I stopped writing in Cisco Grove.

This is an occasional series chronicling my life. This Notebook Analysis series is meant to be contemporaneous piece developed as an agglomeration of my notebook pages. In each of these posts I used my notes to develop my recent thoughts.