Tell us about five road trips--in your childhood, in your family, in your recent past, with friends, and/or hoped-for-places-to-drive-to. Don't forget the one that stands out as the BEST or as the worst time.
1. in 1984 we drove from Alberta to Chicago, up through Ontario to Sarnia, Toronto and Ottawa then back via the north shore of Superior. Highlights included driving past Flint in the midst of a storm that was spawning tornadoes (quote from that section as my mother was looking at a map: "remember that mall we just passed? that is where they just said a tornado touched down") finding out just how long the trip through Northwestern Ontario could be, and lots of grasshoppers through the prairies.
2. worst road trip ever. in 2002 Beloved and I were planning a trip out to BC for my grandparents 60th Anniversary. WE were to leave on a Monday. 4:00 Friday afternoon the alternator light came on in my car, no garage open until Monday morning. So we spent Saturday arranging for alternate transport to Edmonton where we could continue with my parents -- 28 hours on the bus. On a full bus for most of it. Not fun.
3. a trip we plan to take. Beloved and I would dearly love to fly to Halifax and take the train back across the country. With stops to explore various places along the way. But we want to wait at least 5 years until youngest is 6. Sadly it will be a very expensive trip.
4. most recent trip. LAst summer. Our big move. Thunder Bay to Edmonton over 4 days, travelling in a convoy of 3 vehicles, with a 1 month-old. It was a bit of an adventure. Then after a couple of recovery days a final day up to our new home.
5. last fall Beloved and I joined the other members of this Presbytery for a bus trip up to Whitehorse for the fall meeting. First time either of us had been north of here (not surprising since the move was the first time we had been this far north [apart from interview and house-shopping on my account]). And in 2015 the PResbytery should be due for a bus trip to Yellowknife.
I never even thought of bus trips as road trips although I guess they are. I bussed from Bridgeport, CT to Dayton, OH for my roommate's wedding back in 1968, when smoking was still allowed on busses; it was awful. Trips home from Mass. to Me. in college were by bus too, and I invariably got sick. I am all for public transport but not those old Greyhounds. I do hope you get to take the train ride with your kids -- that would be a great memory for them.
ReplyDeleteI remember going on lots of Greyhound buses when I was in college and later when I was newly married. Sorry yours didn't turn out so well. I've always wanted to take the trans-Canada railroad trip. Hope you get to go on that train ride!
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