Destination Anywhere

With the impending holidays, we have resigned ourselves to the fact that Tim most likely won't find a new job until after New Year. Which leaves us with the question of what to do with December. Of course we could easily pass the days and weeks with our usual routine, since we seem to be living in some sort of time suck lately and accomplish very little other than feeding and clothing the many people now banging around in this little apartment. However, it seems with so much free time, and our recently tested new road-trippers, we should do something. But I can't figure out what the perfect something is. Yosemite sounds exciting, but the required tire chains for the car sounds intimidating. A visit to the Bay area is easy, but is that a cop out? Matilda has been talking about the Grand Canyon a lot lately, but we just went that way so it seems silly to go straight back. Any recommendation? Maybe someone has the perfect house sitting situation for us in some exotic locations.