We are currently in Minnesota, after deciding to drive from Connecticut over the fourth of July weekend. We thought of the craziness on Tuesday, decided on it Wednesday, left on Thursday.
On Friday the Fourth, we surprised my parents in Wisconsin. Luckily, they were meeting my grandparents for dinner that evening, so we got to see them as well. Saturday we drove up to the Twin Cities, where we have been seeing friends over dinner, coffee, drinks, Wii, walking to parks, and every other imaginable manner (warning: exaggeration alert).
We are almost to the point of making the long journey back. It’ll be the standard bittersweetness of travel: glad to be home in one’s own bed and comfortable surroundings but sad to be leaving friends and family and places we love. David Sedaris and Sarah Vowell and Ira Glass make the drive quite nice, even through the boring states. (I’m looking at you, Indiana.)
Then we’ll be doing the regular routine for a few days before starting the travel process all over.
4 responses so far ↓
1 unkie dave added // Jul 9, 2008 at 3:02 pm
stupid Indiana! Happy 4th of July!
2 Ivy Six-Pack said // Jul 9, 2008 at 4:11 pm
hey now, there are nice parts of Indiana. It could have been Wyoming or Kansas!
3 Jeff & Lisa said // Jul 10, 2008 at 7:49 pm
how was the road trip?
4 tpy wrote // Jul 11, 2008 at 9:11 am
ISP, I know some very nice people who have lived in Indiana and made a wonderful reason to stop there. However, if one has no reason to stop, and is simply running the I-80 corridor, Indiana is, shall we say, monotonous.
J&L, the road trip has been good so far, but there’s two days of driving left. That’s two more than I care to do.
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