Road Trip !!!

I love road trips.  I am a truck drivers' daughter. And I have never gone this long in my adult life without a road trip.  Now there's one in the works.

This year of diminished income has cut out all but the smallest of travels.  The last time I left the state (except for over there to Louisiana the other day) was for Kate's graduation from Alabama last August and we flew.

I like to fly just fine but its mighty pricey. I really love road trips.  Love to plan them, take them and look back at the memories of them.  Facebook makes it even worse with sites of places I've been and places I'd love to see.  Hatch Chili, La Fonda, Ireland, England, New England, you name it, I want to go there.  Then there are my many fortunate friends who go to beaches and islands, and cities and towns.  Then there are my FB friends who already live in really cool places, like Fairhope, Alabama, close to Gulf Shores, Orange Beach and Perdido Key.  I have not seen one drop of salt water for an entire year!  Or a grandson who's sailing the Alaskan coast and another who's happy in Chattanooga, TN, and tells me I'd really like it.  Of course I would.  I like most of the places I go.  I even watched a special about Marfa, TX the other night and longed for one more visit to Big Bend country.

Anyway, whine, whine, whine, I have a road trip ahead.  Yay.  Granddaughter Alexis, a sophomore at UAB and cheerleader, is down for the UAB football game against UTSA, in the Alamodome in San Antonio in October.  I'll get to see her sister too, who will be in grad school at St. Mary's.  I may even get another visit with my new great-grandson.

I know, there's no other state, nor beach, nor new territory involved, but its over five hours from here to there, I get to stay in a hotel (love hotels) and eat at some of the best Mexican restaurants in the world.

Its really great to have found a job that I like and while it doesn't pay a lot, it pays.  I also work with interesting people from many different parts of the world, who travel and transfer to other places.  Obviously, listening to all there travel experiences only whets my already voracious appetite.  I do have a small cache of frequent flyer miles, maybe enough for one trip to Europe.  So when I get road tripping back on the map I will probably start thinking of farther fields.

Beep, beep ... see ya'.