Hit the road, jack

Yes kids, those rumors you heard were true -- I have accepted a job at FOXSports.com in Los Angeles and will be starting in a couple weeks. It is quite an exciting opportunity and I can't wait to get started.

I'd like to thank The Sports Xchange, for whom I've been working the past seven months. TSX is a great little company that is carving out a solid niche for itself at a time much of the sports journalism business is contracting and their future is bright.

Alas, this means Dave's World will be closing its doors soon. No one has told me I have to shut things down, but I'm starting a new job and want to give it my full attention. In the interim I'll check in when I can over the next week and we'll have our regular Football Thursday roundtable tomorrow and next week.

Now, I have a question or two for the peanut gallery: I'm going to be driving down I-5 from Seattle to LA soon. I'll be taking a few days to do so and stopping to visit a couple friends along the way. Has anyone out there ever done all or part of this drive? If I was going to stop somewhere along the way and spend an afternoon seeing some sort of place that I should see at least once in my lifetime, what would you recommend? Crater Lake? Redwoods National Park? Mt. Shasta? Tacoma? Drop me a line and tell me what you think.