Saturday, February 10, 2007
Feb 10, 2007: First, you have to dream
Here's my situation; my wife and I have great 2 kids entering their teenage years (Kimberly, 12 / Jacob, 10). Both are heavily involved in the standard extra-curriculars (church, sports, dance, band, drama), and both are great students by all accounts. I want to have them encounter the great country we live in, not by flying over it, but by driving it and experiencing as many of its regions as your basic family vacation will allow. I want them to understand the geography of the history they have begun learning in school. I want them to actively and willingly participate in this excursion. Since I don't always get what I want, we'll see how it goes.
The motivation to move beyond dreaming began when my sister-in-law and her family of 6 from Redding, CA, accomplished this feat in the summer of 2005 - visiting Mormon church history sites from Utah to New York. I have been further motivated by the recent miniseries on the Food Channel called "Feasting on Asphalt", in which Alton Brown and Crew traverse the country on motorcycle in search of "road food". That extremely entertaining and informative series really got the juices flowing. I would suggest to all thinking of such a trip, buy this DVD box set.
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