We're now in Sunnyvale, CA. Yesterday was stunningly gorgeous and today it's overcast - typical. Here are some of the things I've been thinking about:
It looks like the economy is improving. I saw a lot of interstate truck companies advertising for drivers, more than I remember from the past few years.
Washington state has free coffee at highway rest stops along the 5.
Salt Spring Island, BC is really very beautiful. But strangely, it costs more to take a ferry from the mainland to Victoria than to take a ferry from the mainland to Victoria and then from Victoria to Salt Spring Island. It's the same on the return - Victoria to the mainland is $50, but only $22 if you started from Salt Spring. If you're on Victoria headed for the mainland, and you have two hours to spend, you can save $30 by going to Salt Spring first. Weird.
We met a guy who works for Microsoft in their search engine team, trying to make a better search engine than Google. On the drive south from Seattle, I asked my wife, "Why does Microsoft keep trying to eat other people's lunch? It's not like Google is making operating systems."
She replied, "If Google made an operating system, would you install it?"