Road Trips

A lot of the reunions blend together for me and I don't recall any great highlights, but I have vivid memories of the family road trips in the bottom of the line vans that mom and dad always seemed to have. No A/C, no carpet, no head liner and vinyl seats. Yes sir, we were real pioneers heading off across country with the little tent trailer sailing along behind us. Even without all the creature comforts, the 6 walkers made our way from Northborough, Massachusetts all the way to Utah, Arizona or where ever we ended up in between with a song and a 500 mile daily game of letter search, it seemed much harder to get all the way through the alphabet back then than when I play the same game with my kids today. Mom always had fruit, a cooler full of ice water, fresh from the camp ground hose, from where-ever the stop was we were leaving that day (we would never do that today) and a selection of munchies, fresh fruit, and other snacks available for the asking.
Now I am sure there were some arguements and some dis-cord at the end of the days long hot journey, but I can't remember any, I just remember setting up camp and swimming in the camp ground pools, and sitting by the campfire before bed, then the whole family crowding into the tent trailer for the night.
Each morning we would get up, have breakfast and pack up the camp, get the trailer hooked back up to the van, and checking the trailer lights - EVERY DAY - before leaving for that days adventure.
Yeah, it wasn't ever the destination that I remember most but the journey to get there and back again. Truly something a lot of you missed on the short hop to the reunions.