Friday Five

1. What is (or would be) your dream vacation?

Great Britain. The literary sites. The geographic ones. The historical ones. ::deep sigh::

2. What's one thing no vacation can do without?

Money. :-) Well, you have to stay somewhere and also have regular meals.

3. What has been the best trip of your life so far?

Oh, definitely the two trips I took cross country by car in 1975 and 1978. (The routes were similar.)

4. Who was with you on that trip and what is the role of that person in your life?

My parents. We had a grand time; I saw things I'd only read about or seen on television. Not just the big tourist attractions like Disneyland and Fisherman's Wharf and the St. Louis Arch, but things like sunrise in Western Wyoming, the stars in the incredible blackness of sky above on the old roads heading away from the Grand Canyon, the variable blue water of the Pacific and the rainbows of wildflowers in the Rockies and the "greengrass" of Wyoming that Mary O'Hara wrote about. Pronghorn antelope streaming across the prairie, slick seals sunning off the coast of California, contented Clydesdales in the paddocks at Grants Farm. California poppies and sagebrush and lupines and goldenrod, vast fields of corn in Nebraska and wheat in Kansas. Open vistas with purple mountains in the distance, woodland grottoes, bleak expanse of glaring desert, the stalwart sequoias. 115°F in Las Vegas and snow still under the trees at the Donner Pass at the end of June. Storm clouds and high white clouds, grey sky and heaven blue. Big hotels, tiny motels, cinderblock rows and individual cabins and campgrounds. Salt Lake City painted against the valley from the top of the Continental Divide, San Francisco under fog while Marin County is sunny and hot, the shady streets of Independence, Missouri and the old groves of Hyde Park, New York.

Oh, yeah, those were good trips.

5. What's the worst thing that can happen during a vacation?

Sickness. Money can only buy new tires and replace lost clothing.

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Comments:

You really should visit the UK. There are often very cheap flights available, especially from the east coast, and you can find cheap places to stay even in London that are clean and comfortable. And they usually give you a free English breakfast, mmmm!

# posted by  Tina : 12:08:00 AM

 

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