If you read this blog often, you know I like to travel and have travelled with my family to various places on the Western Hemisphere. Travelling is something I love to do, and I still look back fondly at the memories created with my family when driving or flying to our destinations.
April Vacation Plans
This week is School Vacation week. It’s a time when children across the country take a sigh of relief as they enjoy mornings without being hurried and hassled. It’s a week when parents leave the house in the morning and hope everything is still standing and intact when they return.
The Boy and his Fruit Loops have a week of bike riding and carousing planned for their days of freedom. There may even be another trip to Cape Cod planned. Apparently, my wife loves to witness more shenanigans. Why not?
Travelling to California
On the other hand, we have The Oppressed. She and a friend have decided to take a trip together to the West Coast for the week and spend some time away from parental monitoring. Well, away from parental monitoring. The girls are staying with family of The Oppressed’s friend.
I’m happy for my youngest daughter. She has a bit of the Travel Bug like both of her parents. Wife and I are happy she has this chance to see what’s out there. The three of us had lots of conversations before the day of the flight. We have also been in contact with parents of the friend. All four of us wanted to make sure everything was taken care of before the flight and surprises could be minimized during the big week.
My Vacation in New Hampshire
My brother and I took a trip when we weren’t much older than The Oppressed is now. We spent a week in New Hampshire. A family we grew up with rented a house and drove five quiet, reserved, laid-back, well-behaved boys for a week that involved arcade games, wiffle ball, and swimming. Growing up, there were plane trips to Florida and a car trip to Washington D.C. Countless trips to New Hampshire and Maine were sprinkled in between those longer journeys.
Hoping my Daughter has Fun
I’m excited for my daughter to have this opportunity. It’s her first time on the West Coast, so the jet lag was something that needed a little adjusting. One of their first stops in California was Dunkin Donuts much to my dismay. In my humble opinion, travelling means checking out the local establishments, not the chains. The Oppressed new how much this irks me and made sure to tell me where she ate when the plane landed.
The family has been getting frequent weather reports, usually mentioning warm weather and sunny skies. Back here in Massachusetts, we’re in the middle of our annual Spring Monsoon, so we are happy that at least one member of the family is getting to see Mr. Golden Sun.
Traveling is Fun
Traveling is good. I hope you get the chance to do it. Hopefully, The Oppressed will return home with stories of fun she and her friend had while they were away. In addition to the daily updates, we are also getting lots of pictures as our daughter documents her time on the other side of the country.
My children constantly hear me talk about a road trip my wife and I took right before we moved into our house. We went down the east coast seeing Virginia and Savannah, Georgia. On our way back north, we stopped in South Carolina and Philadelphia. Since then, children have accompanied us to various sites in and beyond the United States. There are more trips waiting for us. Hopefully, they will occur sooner rather than later. Maybe there will be a day on vacation when The Oppressed will see something, and it will remind her of a day in California, and she will tell us a story about a particular event when she and her friend were travelling and witnessed something exciting. No doubt the girls are seeing and doing fun things over there. Maybe she’ll write about them some day.
This is going to be a different experience for The Oppressed. She’s been on vacation with the family before. We are down Cape Cod most of the time, and there is something of a structure when we are there. It usually involves a little yard work or a small project in or out of the house. If you have a home or a yard, you understand what I’m talking about.
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