Stop Flying!! America is truly the land of the beautiful! Drive to your destination and support the American restaurants, shops, attractions, and more! The airlines have overstepped and deserve to go down.They have outrageous costs, violate your freedom (TSA) let us not forget that, and they are happy to implement the mark of the beast shit. I have seen America in its entirety and trust me you only know it by experiencing it. America is the land that inspires songs!
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When I was a kid my dad wanted to take us to visit my uncle in CA for a couple of months. He was my dad's only sibling. His employer told him "no" so he quit his job. He was a talented machinist and he knew he'd have no problem finding another job. My dad and mom bought a small Shasta trailer and hooked it to our 1962 station wagon, packed up all we needed and three kids and took off. My dad being a history buff had poured over maps for days marking our route with iodine on a Q tip.(I guess highlighters hadn't been invented.) Our first stop was Mammoth Cave . From there we zig zagged all over the States on our way. We went to the Mississippi deltas and watched guys catch shrimp, and saw our first glow worm on the path. We slept just outside an old sugar mill and found lizards by the score. We tasted sugar cane, drank water from a roadside pump, saw where Billy the Kid was killed, went to a desert and camped by a highway with no one passing by for hours while we had a campfire and my mom and dad sang old cowboy songs. I would not ever trade that trip for one on a plane. Yeah, we would have gotten there faster, but I'd have missed all of these memories that I cherish to this day. That trip was made 63 years ago
Beautiful story - thanks for sharing!
Thank You ! I thought it was too long for anyone to stop and read it. I really appreciate you taking the time to comment ,too.
I don’t come here for anecdotes but I really enjoyed reading this. Bess your dad for having the balls to put family before work. Im sure it would fill him with joy to know that memory is so strong and vivid in your heart, all these years later.
Happy Easter to you and your loved ones.
Thank You. I know that it did . In the hours before his death I brought a beer to him at the Veteran's Home and we had a "cold one" together for the last time , I told him how I remembered the good things that he did for me. That and other trips were remembered with him and I told him how much I learned from them. He was a nature lover and had a great thirst for knowledge. I'm glad for all of those things.
Happy Easter to you also.