What’s the Most Memorable Road Trip You’ve Ever Taken?
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road trips are really one of the most beautiful things of life. recently, I needed my degree to get verified from the education department's main office which is located in the capital city. i had to apply for my graduate admission and the deadlien was very close. as soon as I got appointment I booked my bus tickets to Islamabad. I live in Lahore and it's 6 hours drive to islamabad. the path is beautiful as the whole highway is amde by cutting mountains...it was lovely when I reached at islamaba, i got my degree verified in one hour (when usually it takes two days at least) and I wandered across the city as if I was tourist. it was drizzling and the sight of green mountains was filling my heart with joy...it was lovely. then i had my favorite chickecn cheese burger before buying the ticket to get back home.
While I was recently on two months of terminal leave from the active duty Army, I took a 5500 mile, round trip, cross country drive-by myself. I got drunk and shopped on the Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas; sang with a live band in a club on Bourbon Street in New Orleans; jumped off a 20 foot high cliff into a beautiful, cool lake in Clarksville, Tennessee; and spent a week hoofing it as a tourist in Washington, DC, visiting the grave of my best friend at Arlington National Cemetary in the process. I returned from Iraq in September of 2008, and while deployed I went through a divorce. A relationship with a very wonderful man I had met ended in June, so I had a lot to leave on the road. With every state line I crossed, I felt as though I got a little piece of myself back. Time indeed heals all, but I'll testify that distance, too, can make a heck of a difference.
Recently, I went up to the Burlington, Vermont area to visit Gardeners Supply to get some self watering pots. We stayed at a Motel 6, where the lobby looked like a scene out of Twilight Zone.
On the way back, we needed to stop at a Duncan Donuts to get coffee and use the bathroom. They had some unusual things for sale. I bought some Barsdarda and Barsdado wines to give to friends as gifts. We had to go down some long winding roads and the Duncan Donuts was in a log cabin. Extra cool.
Road trips? I had taken several during the time I was on active duty in the Army. The last one actually was from Fort Hood, Texas to Fort Carson, CO July 1984. Happiness for my wife was Fort Hood and the State of Texas in the rear view mirror of my 1978 K5 Blazer. To give an idea why I chose Route 85 north into Colorado was to follow the ATSF and BN (pre-merger days) main line to get photos of the trains. And driving a truck, what better way to do it: See train coming, see side of road, aim truck for ditch -- hang on to your boot straps.
There were other sites we saw along the way too -- But one picture that I took while driving was across the flat Texas Panhandle driiving toward Amarillo through the cotton country -- the horizon and curvature of the earth. It takes a lot to impress me, but I was definitly impressed by the sight. The tallest thing out there were the storage bins for the cotton.
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Once I left Ohio for Hartford Connecticut with a friend to watch my cousin in a Wake Board Tournament. We decided to map out a few day destinations afterwards and ended up riding around for a week. We went to 2 states, and many cities, just enjoying the sights. We had a blast in Boston. We took a train in, and once we got there we took a cable car tour. It was our only splurge. We never got lost, which was pretty cool. I went again for my honeymoon in 2005 but we went to a few more states and a lot of cities.
Touring the Rocky Mountains on a motorcycle was quite an adventure last summer. Seeing that
national treasure up close was quite an experience. I felt like I was in the middle of a movie.I
have also seen Mt. Hood /Mr.Rushmore/Mr. St. Helens/Old Faithful by motorcycle trip but I think
Rocky Mt. tour was the most awesome.
Our trip to Europe last summer would be the most memorable for me. We landed in London and picked up our car. It was the first time my husband drove a car with the driver sitting on the right side and driving on the opposite side of the road. The drive was nerve wracking, but fun (for our kids). During our seven week vacation we travelled by car, land, and sea. Drove around Paris and got stuck in the biggest and famous round about. Road the bus to Ireland and were stopped at the border for a long time because the bus driver forgot his passport, we were searched at the border because I stuck a couple bottle of shampoo from Westin (didn't realized they were shaped like small grenades) :) in my suitcase, walked around Rome and nearly melted from the heat. We learned to carry euro coins in our pockets becasuse public toilets were not free. The wealth of knowledge, customs, history, that we accumulated during this trip was grand. But it was the closeness of our family that I loved the most
I was with my mom and sister and we took a little trip to Ocean Shores which I thought was very exciting. Well after about four hours or so we arrive and are on the beach and we get our misbehaving mutts out. The big one follows my sister who is racing down to the water and in he goes along with her. Clothes and all this would have been very funny at the time for me if I hadn't been connected to the end of the leash! We get ready to leave and realize that since this was a completely spur of the moment thing we didn't pack extra clothes and we were drenched. What did we do. We took the few towels we had and stripped down, we did keep our shirts on though and drove home with cold shirts on and towels wrapped around our legs. This may not sound embarrasing until you realize I was 14 and comletly humilated.
Another Ocean shores trip after finding some kittens we went home the "long" way which went around Ruby beach through Sqeuim and forks, going through a rainforest. Beautiful.
My youngest son (20 yrs old at the time) and I took a cross country trip from Virginia to Washington state to bring home the car he had bought from me. It was 4 days of the most wonderful days of my life. The laughter, the tears, the remembering, the making of new memories and the quality of that time will live forever in both of us. I had done a horribly wrong thing when he was 16 and left him with his father, while I moved away to a new life with a new husband. He wanted to finish high school where he was at, so I allowed him to stay. He's never once ever blamed me or critized me, and we are the absolute best of friends. As you might guess he's a wonderful young man, who has become a very successful banker, has a wonderful love interest, and a great dog, but who never ever turns down time to spend with me. It's a true joy and a blessing to have had those 4 intense days with my boy, and I will cherish it always.
My most memorable road trip was several days after I left the school. Me and my friend John we were moving from Mwanza to Musoma for the aim to greeting her girlfriend .It took us a set of hours to reach the place it was good joinery for me because was my first day to Musoma, and it was the firs time to pass along Serengeti National Park. We had a great time on the joinery.
