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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 1 – Beginner)
Topic: Car Trip (07/18/05)
Our Car Trips
7/18/05

Our car trips usually consisted of me, my brother and my parents. It seems we always started out on the hottest day of the year and came home on the coldest. When you’re a child every car trip seems like an eternity.

We would spend a week packing up the car to go who knows where, but my father would give the impression that he knew where. He would dig out wall maps and folding maps of all kinds and start drawing on them mapping out the route. We would then get excited, still not knowing where we were going or what we would be doing, but just the same we supported Dad with our excitement.

When the day finally came to leave, we would all cram into the old 68 wagon and through pillows and mounds of blankets, Dad would back out of the driveway. Well, it didn’t take more that 45 minutes or so and I became extremely board (something I still do today). Then I would start the infamous “are we there yet” routine. Mom would reassure me that it would be soon, even though it never was. I would also start in with the bathroom requests, one thing my father never did was stop. Once he started that was it until we arrive at our destination.

Our vehicles were always something to be desired too, with overheating engines when we would come upon a hill or no brakes as we descended the other side. Dad was a nervous driver and it seemed he always sniffled when things weren’t going well. He sniffled a lot when I was young.

As I try to equate those experiences with today, I realize that I am on a trip of sorts, not knowing what I will be doing or where I am going but knowing that the Lord has me in the palm of his hand watching my every step and guiding my every move. This is a trip that I want to be on.
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Nina Phillips
07/25/05
Hey, we must be related. Nicely written.
Brought back an old memory. Thank you for sharing. God bless, littlelight
Shannon Redmon
07/25/05
I liked the way you compared life's journey with your childhood road trips! Good job!
Debra Brand 
07/25/05
I know so well the father that wouldn't stop till we got there. Good start.
Venice Kichura
07/26/05
I could relate...enjoyed this...keep writing!
Melanie Kerr 
07/26/05
I liked the comparison of not knowing where you were going on a car trip with not knowing excatly where God leads. I think I picked up a spelling mistake - it should have been "bored" instead of "board".
Shari Brian
07/27/05
I enjoyed your car trip. When I was young we never once took a road trip. I always thought it would have been romantic. But maybe not...good job.
karen McLamb
07/29/05
Very Good! I really enjoyed.
Beth Muehlhausen
07/30/05
Nice thoughts, full of nostalgia. I loved this excerpt: "Dad was a nervous driver and it seemed he always sniffled when things weren’t going well. He sniffled a lot when I was young." Betcha he was snffling as an alternative to road rage..... :-)