Last week Friday, my wife and I headed out to Las Vegas to celebrate my birthday. Since we are competing in a contest with 11 others to do 1 blog post a day for 30 days, we needed to plan time to do our posts and bring the equipment needed to stay in the competition. Each competitor’s post must have 351+ words in it and at least 1 picture. After a post is published, we also have to email all the text and the actual post URL before 11:59pm, or we are eliminated.
The drive to Las Vegas normally takes us about 4 and a half hours with a snack break along the way in Barstow California. Since we have to leave on a Friday after work, I shift my schedule to get off a little earlier and both of us try to get home by 3pm so we can leave our home by 4pm and beat the “Vegas Friday Rush”. We have our Internet businesses in place bringing in some nice side income every month that covers our medical insurance and leaves us a little left over any extra monthly surprises that may come up. We would both like to increase the internet business income to EXCEED our regular work salaries so we can work from home full-time with unlimited income potential.
This past getaway to Vegas gave us a “realistic” idea of what it would be like to have such an ideal situation. We were able to leave the house by 4pm like we planned and heard that we would run into some trouble along the way since a tanker truck had overturned on the main freeway that takes us into Nevada. Most reports were estimating an additional 8 hour delay and said to prepare for a long trip in to Vegas. We debated briefly about staying home till late in the evening and heading out early the next morning, but since we had booked the hotel already, we braved the news and hoped for the best.
It ended up being a very long ride like the reports had said and we got to our hotel lobby at 11pm. With one hour left to get our blog posts up, we scrambled to our room and I booted both our laptops up and connected my cell phone’s wi-fi so we could start writing by 11:20pm. With only 39 minutes and counting we scrambled to get our content written and posted and we were both starving from missing dinner. Both of us had our doubts about making it in time.
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