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Photo: Sunny Seagold
California Dreamin’
My grandmother turned 95 this year, and my husband and I wanted to take our two daughters, ages 5 and 7, to see her in Southern California (and sneak in a visit to Disneyland at the same time!). But after pricing out airfare, car rental, and hotels from Portland, Oregon to Los Angeles I had a crazy idea: what if we drove and saved the cost of airfare? Even better, what if we drove something we could also sleep in? Neither one of us had ever driven anything larger than an SUV, and the longest stretch of time that we’d all spend in the car together was three hours, but the promise of a new adventure was too much for us to resist.