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The bad news is, I'm an idiot and a space-case.
The good news is that sometimes this yields good results anyway....
Case in point: somehow, some time in the past three days, I got it in my head that the moonviewing was today, Tuesday, not tomorrow, Wednesday. So I went on up to the Japanese Gardens. I wasn't sure how long it would take, so I got there woefully early.
But! It turns out they close at 7 pm in the summer (not 6 as I had somehow got stuck in my brain at some point), so I was able to go on in and walk around. I confirmed I do have a ticket for the moonviewing tomorrow, and I discovered that another time the garden is relatively peaceful is within the hour before closing. It was really very pretty.
Then I got in my car and decided to come home the way I would have to tomorrow. I usually take the twisty little road down from the zoo - and it closes at 9 pm. As the moonviewing ends at 10, this is not an option. So I got directions from the Garden staff on the phone on how to get out the "regular" way.
The directions were passable - in daylight. I'd have missed one turn in the dark (I might yet, but I don't think so - because now I have a nice brick wall to one side as a landmark for that turn!), and I probably would've panicked at one point.
("Park Place turns into Salmon. Follow it...." Park Place does not turn into Salmon, folks. Park Place T's into some street (King?) whose name I didn't catch. If you turn right there, 30 feet or so along you turn left onto Salmon. To the city planners and the street maps, that may be 'Park Place turns into Salmon'. But I'll tell you that at night, if I didn't know better, I'd have frozen at that intersection, trying to guess which way to turn on that street, when I expected to just go straight until I crossed the freeway....)
Whee! The gardens were very pretty, though. I felt stupid, but it was an effective sort of stupid - and now I know how long it takes to get there. Even in rush hour traffic it is far quicker than I expected.
The good news is that sometimes this yields good results anyway....
Case in point: somehow, some time in the past three days, I got it in my head that the moonviewing was today, Tuesday, not tomorrow, Wednesday. So I went on up to the Japanese Gardens. I wasn't sure how long it would take, so I got there woefully early.
But! It turns out they close at 7 pm in the summer (not 6 as I had somehow got stuck in my brain at some point), so I was able to go on in and walk around. I confirmed I do have a ticket for the moonviewing tomorrow, and I discovered that another time the garden is relatively peaceful is within the hour before closing. It was really very pretty.
Then I got in my car and decided to come home the way I would have to tomorrow. I usually take the twisty little road down from the zoo - and it closes at 9 pm. As the moonviewing ends at 10, this is not an option. So I got directions from the Garden staff on the phone on how to get out the "regular" way.
The directions were passable - in daylight. I'd have missed one turn in the dark (I might yet, but I don't think so - because now I have a nice brick wall to one side as a landmark for that turn!), and I probably would've panicked at one point.
("Park Place turns into Salmon. Follow it...." Park Place does not turn into Salmon, folks. Park Place T's into some street (King?) whose name I didn't catch. If you turn right there, 30 feet or so along you turn left onto Salmon. To the city planners and the street maps, that may be 'Park Place turns into Salmon'. But I'll tell you that at night, if I didn't know better, I'd have frozen at that intersection, trying to guess which way to turn on that street, when I expected to just go straight until I crossed the freeway....)
Whee! The gardens were very pretty, though. I felt stupid, but it was an effective sort of stupid - and now I know how long it takes to get there. Even in rush hour traffic it is far quicker than I expected.