Road trips, graduation and...
Dear all,
I'm traveling again.
It's a completely different sort of traveling, I'm not living on an island in the Mediterranean and I'm not jumping around Greece via train. We're road tripping the U.S!
My sister Kara and I drove up to Spokane, WA via Boise, ID to spend a week and a half with our other sister Erika just before her college graduation. E was attending a small Christian college called Whitworth and it was fun to meet her friends and get to know her professors who she's gotten to know well. The rest of our family joined us the day before her graduation and we were able to have breakfast with old friends, attend an art exhibit and the senior communion and commissioning the school has.
Her graduation was long and sometimes tedious but enjoyable and we screamed ourselves hoarse as her name was called and she graduated Summa Cum Laude!
We left the morning after the big day and it took two cars to cart all of her stuff and the six of us back home. Now we're unpacking, doing laundry, repacking and getting ready for leaving tomorrow. Five of us will pile into a car once again to drive from Colorado to Virginia in two days. We're leaving dad behind so he can continue to make money for this gas guzzling trip and he'll fly out later for a long weekend with all of us as we visit old friends and family members.
Virginia is one of my favorite states. It's true that I haven't been to quite a few of the states and some that I have been to I haven't seen in many years but I have lots of good memories connected with VA. I spent nine years of my young life in the western tip close to my father’s family and a small, well connected church and a crazy homeschool group that absolutely loved our family. Now when I go back it's scary how very few people there are to visit- our family, of course is a highlight and there is always fun times to be had and tension not far off when we visit them. My best friend ever in the world is there and I'll be spending quite a lot of time in her presence this trip, but other than that everyone else has slid away, been lost or forgotten and we've grown apart. In fact I have a better time visiting with my parents old friends whom I lovingly call Aunt and Uncle than kids my age who I no longer know.
We'll be in VA for about two weeks before heading down to N. Carolina to visit some of our favorite friends before a long trip to Texas to pick up an Aunt and two cousins and continue our trip to Arizona where we will be for quite some time as we work to clean and prepare my mothers parents house for selling.
It'll be a long, sometimes tedious trip with lots of family and far too many people to see in far too short a time but it'll be worthwhile and interesting. We've always been good at long distance driving and now we're all at the driving age, the real problem will be deciding what CD is listened to at what time and what book on tape should or should not be listened to. In other words, pray for us!
Until I write again, Kristen Rose
I'm traveling again.
It's a completely different sort of traveling, I'm not living on an island in the Mediterranean and I'm not jumping around Greece via train. We're road tripping the U.S!
My sister Kara and I drove up to Spokane, WA via Boise, ID to spend a week and a half with our other sister Erika just before her college graduation. E was attending a small Christian college called Whitworth and it was fun to meet her friends and get to know her professors who she's gotten to know well. The rest of our family joined us the day before her graduation and we were able to have breakfast with old friends, attend an art exhibit and the senior communion and commissioning the school has.
Her graduation was long and sometimes tedious but enjoyable and we screamed ourselves hoarse as her name was called and she graduated Summa Cum Laude!
We left the morning after the big day and it took two cars to cart all of her stuff and the six of us back home. Now we're unpacking, doing laundry, repacking and getting ready for leaving tomorrow. Five of us will pile into a car once again to drive from Colorado to Virginia in two days. We're leaving dad behind so he can continue to make money for this gas guzzling trip and he'll fly out later for a long weekend with all of us as we visit old friends and family members.
Virginia is one of my favorite states. It's true that I haven't been to quite a few of the states and some that I have been to I haven't seen in many years but I have lots of good memories connected with VA. I spent nine years of my young life in the western tip close to my father’s family and a small, well connected church and a crazy homeschool group that absolutely loved our family. Now when I go back it's scary how very few people there are to visit- our family, of course is a highlight and there is always fun times to be had and tension not far off when we visit them. My best friend ever in the world is there and I'll be spending quite a lot of time in her presence this trip, but other than that everyone else has slid away, been lost or forgotten and we've grown apart. In fact I have a better time visiting with my parents old friends whom I lovingly call Aunt and Uncle than kids my age who I no longer know.
We'll be in VA for about two weeks before heading down to N. Carolina to visit some of our favorite friends before a long trip to Texas to pick up an Aunt and two cousins and continue our trip to Arizona where we will be for quite some time as we work to clean and prepare my mothers parents house for selling.
It'll be a long, sometimes tedious trip with lots of family and far too many people to see in far too short a time but it'll be worthwhile and interesting. We've always been good at long distance driving and now we're all at the driving age, the real problem will be deciding what CD is listened to at what time and what book on tape should or should not be listened to. In other words, pray for us!
Until I write again, Kristen Rose
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