ROAD TRIP!!!!

Is it just a Southern tradition to just hop in the car and go for a joyride with no particular destination in mind?

When we were kids we would be sitting around enjoying the wonders of our THREE TV Channels with diddly squat on them on a lazy Sunday afternoon and Daddy would take out his keys and jangle them and say......"Okay- Let's go for a ride young'uns!!"

Sometimes we would go towards the mountains. Sometimes we would go towards the lakes. Sometimes we would go by one or both sets of Grandparents for a short visit. And during the holidays we would go out and ride until it got dark enough to see the Christmas decorations twinkling in the windows of the houses and on the front lawns.

Of course, it was a time when gas was 10 cents a gallon.....but then again, wages were much less as well, so I suppose it balances out in the end.

The point is we did it - and enjoyed it. I still love to just hop in the car and ride for a couple hours on a lazy weekend afternoon. I don't do it very often now because of the rising gas prices....well, that AND the fact that my auto has almost 200,000 miles on it now and I'm almost afraid to drive it very far- or for very long. Heck, I washed it the other day after two years of NOT washing it and afterwards was nervous about going too fast in it just in case the grime that I washed off was all that was holding the body parts together!

But I digress..........The best way in my opinion to go on a true "ride" is to go with at LEAST one partner/co-pilot and take turns deciding which direction to turn or which exit to take.

Paulius and I took a road trip like that up towards Brevard and Asheville NC a couple years ago and it was a blast....despite the fact we not only got TOTALLY LOST- we got caught in a God-Awful Thunderstorm in the process!! It really was fun tho. We like to refer to it as one of our "Little Life Adventures". We took another one a while back as well to White-Water Falls and decided to go on an impromptu hike......no water- in July and hot as hell.....not a fun hike let me tell you....but we can look back on it and laugh NOW.

Do yourself a favor and just go for a ride with nowhere in particular in mind soon.......Create some memories.
You won't be sorry.
Unless you get seriously lost.
Have some FUN for a change.
Don't be such grown-ups all the time.
And you only live once so PLAY once in awhile!!!

Eh- Just bring your cash card....and some cash just in case you get lost in an area where there is no ATMs.