The Aerie
Well preparations are underway for an early morning departure for Tennessee, there to visit my birthmother. When I found her she was living on Cape Cod, but freed from the subconscious need to remain where I could locate her, she immediately bolted from the Cape for Points Distant. Eventually she found her way to Tennessee and Dollywood, and she must have fallen in love with something down there, because she has since remained.
We were supposed to be all packed and ready to go before bedtime tonight. And I suppose we are - except bedtime is pushed back to midnight. Ah well, at least we're pretty-much ready.
The plan is to rise at 4:00 a.m., load the kids in the car and let them go back to sleep, and drive. Arrive Springfield about noon. We'll see how that goes.
Hopefully the idiot drivers won't be on the road. Been getting a lot of those lately. Yesterday I was driving by the U of MN and crossed paths with one. Of course, idiot drivers by a college are nothing unusual.
This one was in front of me in the left lane. As we approached a corner he slowed down. So I assumed he was slowing to turn left... since he was in the left lane. I pulled into the right lane in order to pass him.
Suddenly he cuts in front of me, inches from my bumper, and turns right.
Before I can even consider honking the horn or doing anything, he sticks his arm out the window and flips me off.
Que?
Moron.
Anyway we're packed. It's a lighter load than other times. For one thing I put all our audio tapes on MP3 and bought a CD-MP3 player, which I hooked up to the car's tape player with one of those funky cartridges. Instead of a huge case of 60+ poorly-recorded tapes, we have a small wallet of CD-MP3s. Sweet.
Likewise for our 2000 trip to New York - the last trip of comparable size - we camped. So along with everything else, we had tents, sleeping bags, etc.
So despite the fact that the kids are bigger (well, so are the parents too, unfortunately), we have more room in the van.
Anyway, enough - we're off for Tennessee. I'll try to blog from the road...
Posted by Albatross at August 6, 2005 12:11 AM | TrackBack