Solo Road Trips: Thoughts or Such
As life goes, last summer I found myself looking at the heartland's horizon, and this summer I'll be duplicating and extending some of these travels. And with that, I have thoughts. Yes, I was in the American Midwest, rolling my economical car forward, with iTunes blaring, and some flavored water at my side. In a poetic manner of speaking, I woke up and found myself on the road. Though, as we all know, the realities of life don't afford for that. Instead, I had spent weeks planning, crafting ideas in the wee hours of insomnia on my Pinterest boards, and I had prepped my car. I had ample data for my GPS, I had a cooler with bottled water and a couple of sandwiches, I had carrot sticks, and I had a somewhat curated playlist. What that came down to was my asking friends for road trip songs and adding their suggestions to my questionable music library. I planned to stop and see some old friends, from college and before, but as...