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Topic 152: Road Trip
I've taken a lot of road trips in my time. There were the obligatory trips when I was a kid to see friends of the parents all over New England, and the occasional trip to major theme parks when Dad was feeling on top of his game and left enough vacation time for something more than those horrendous camping trips. In college, Pete and I took a road trip when he convinced me to drive up to Hartford with him for spring break. It was a lot of fun, it was annoying, it was too short, too long in parts, but ended up being the second best road trip of my life.
The best one? It hasn't happened yet.
When I was little, I used to sit down with my dad's atlas and look at the maps of each state in America. I don't know why I was so obsessed with that book, but I loved those maps. I loved the shapes of the states and the red stars that marked each capital. I loved tracing the major freeways from one point to another, seeing which states each would cross and vowing that one day I would see every state I could by car. Maybe all of Dad's rants about how the people of the nation needed to embrace their country rubbed off on me and gave me this desire to see every bit of it that I could.
I haven't done it yet. I don't know if I ever will. My life's going to get pretty busy soon once I start my new job, but I'm hoping that before I die, I can jump in a car with my sweetie and see the entire country. I even want to drive up to Alaska. As for Hawaii, well, besides the fact that it can't officially be part of a road trip, I'm not sure I'd want to go there for reasons a little too personal to mention here.
The best one? It hasn't happened yet.
When I was little, I used to sit down with my dad's atlas and look at the maps of each state in America. I don't know why I was so obsessed with that book, but I loved those maps. I loved the shapes of the states and the red stars that marked each capital. I loved tracing the major freeways from one point to another, seeing which states each would cross and vowing that one day I would see every state I could by car. Maybe all of Dad's rants about how the people of the nation needed to embrace their country rubbed off on me and gave me this desire to see every bit of it that I could.
I haven't done it yet. I don't know if I ever will. My life's going to get pretty busy soon once I start my new job, but I'm hoping that before I die, I can jump in a car with my sweetie and see the entire country. I even want to drive up to Alaska. As for Hawaii, well, besides the fact that it can't officially be part of a road trip, I'm not sure I'd want to go there for reasons a little too personal to mention here.