Roadtrips
Over the last 15 or so months, I’ve taken many road trips. Road trips obviously implying that I’m on the road, in my car. Most of the time, I was alone, and I liked it that way. Sometimes Grams was with me, and that was ok, but I really didn’t have much to talk to her about.
I’ve been to California, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado (on several occasions) and Texas. I’ve taken several trips to different places within New Mexico that were longer than usual drives (3-4 hours).
In a recent conversation with a friend as she was preparing for a road trip with her bff and her daughter and her bff’s daughter, I said that I prefer to travel all by myself because I get places faster. There’s non of that “I’m hungry” “I’ve got to go potty” “Are we there yet?” crap. I stop only when I need gas. On an 8 hour trip, that may equate to 1 stop (I get good gas milage what can I say).
So, on my most recent trip, I was headed to Snowmass, CO which could’ve just been an 8 hour trip but because I went the long way to go through Denver and get my friend Laura, it was more like an 11 hour trip. I wouldn’t trade that trip for anything. Well, except for the parts where I was driving solo to and from Denver and ABQ.
Laura and I spent a good 10 hours in the car together over the last week. And it was probably the most enjoyable 10 hours I’ve ever spent in the car on a road trip in the past 15 months. On the way from Denver to Snowmass we had so much to talk about that music was unnecessary. We started our trip with a trip to Starbucks, stopping to go to the bathroom wasn’t an issue for me (in fact, I was the one that said I needed to go).
On the way back, we were so exhausted that there was a little less talk, but Laura played DJ and that was cool by me. Being that it was daytime on the way home (where as it was night time on the way to Snowmass) we made stops and we went slow to take pictures. There was a stop for StarBucks on the way home as well.
It was a very enjoyable trip, it made me think differently as I was driving home from Denver to Albuquerque about how much more enjoyable it is to have someone in the car with me, playing DJ and being my co-pilot and for there to be non-stop conversation and laughter.
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I love road trips, with and without company. But I think years of traveling internationally have spoiled me. Now I really, REALLY love airplane trips, being given a soda by a nice flight attendant, and watching bad movies while I travel. Definitely spoiled!