Something awful happened at the tail end of our California vacation last June. A near-miss so traumatizing that it's taken me six months to write about it. As the year is winding down, I'm looking back on all the fun stuff we did as a family, and this one memory is like a sharp little pain in the corner of my mind. It's my hope that sharing it now will help me move forward and let go of some of the guilt. Last June, my family took a road trip …