What I'm Reading This Week #24
Sup y'all! Welcome to flop sweat season (and Friday!) I hope you had a good week and stayed cool. I had to wave the flag and pull all of the 'impatiens' I grew from seed as that is not the plant I apparently bought. I'm still going round with the people I got them from because dammit, I want a refund. So I had to go to the nursery and get regular impatiens to replace the ones I pulled. It's already nicer to see actual color instead of looking out everyday and wonder WTF they're going to turn into other than some rando plant with a thick, juicy stem. Not that the ones I got look a ton better as they too are leggy. I don't know what the deal is with that. I also grabbed some chives half off to plant with the zinnias to keep the aphids at bay. Who knows if it'll actually work or not, we'll see. Now let's see: 9 Foot Exercises to Try at Home (I've been doing these over the last week and oochie owie for my weak azz feet...
The furthest we went would have been Florida as well and it was the only time we went there as a family. It was also my first ever flight at that point and I was 12 so Disney was a little bit too kiddie for my liking at that point but of course I loved The Haunted Mansion. I was also a big fan of Epcot which had only been opened for a couple of years at that point so everything was new and high tech, for its time.
ReplyDeleteMy parents had 8 years of traveling before they had kids - they wanted to keep it up despite the wee ones. So they bought a camper and travel the country we did!! While all my friends flew to exotic destinations on their vacations, we drove & camped. Yes, I was sad to be the 'poor' family who couldn't afford those types of vacations, but now, as an adult looking back, I feel terrible sad for those "rich" kids who only got to see palm trees and blue oceans. One year, Dad had saved up his vacation time and we went on a 6 week tour of the country - From CT to CA and many states (& tourist traps) in between!
ReplyDeleteWe flew a few times to different places, but mostly it was road trips. My paternal grandpa and maternal grandma lived about 8 hours away from each other and grandpa's was a 20 hour drive. We made the trip usually once a year. Plus various other road trips. We did Disney once, and drove deep into Mexico to a lesser known resort place. I've never been to Florida or Hawaii and although I've been to Maine I wasn't old enough to remember. I'd love to do a fall New England trip.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a young child the furthest we travelled was to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. We drove. Airfare was too rich for our blood at that time. It was also my first time out of the country.
ReplyDeleteI didn't fly for the first time until I was a teenager when my mother, brother, and I few across the country to Edmonton, where we met my father who had driven across the country. From there we spent three weeks driving and camping through Alberta and British Columbia, spending a week in Vancouver at the home of a friend of my mother's. The three of us then flew home from Vancouver, while my father drove back again.
Family vacations were up to the north woods of Wisconsin (with a trip to Bonn Falls and Porcupine Mtns in Michigan), once to camp in Colorado, and once to CA to visit relatives. When I was an older teenager I went with my boyfriend's family to nine different states out west on that I think was a 2 or 3 week trip if I recall.
ReplyDeleteFamily vacations were to visit family. Lucky for me my grandparents were early snowbirds so I visited them in Naples at least once a year from about age 7 or so. And most times we drove all the way from Northern Ohio. When we were very little that meant going to sleep in the van and our parents got up at 5 am to start driving. Also made regular trips to the Chicago suburbs and occasional trips to New England. I've been very lucky in my travel opportunities but definitely have logged more road than air miles.
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