Cali or bust!
Mark K June 19th, 2008
My son turns 17 today. For his birthday, my wife and I flew him out to Florida to spend a week with his friend Eric and then to road trip across the US back to California. They asked me if I’d like to join them and I jumped at the chance. I knew that they would probably want to drive incredible distances each day and then crash at a motel next to the Interstate, so I thought that if I came with them, I could maybe persuade them to slow down a bit and see the country. I had my own selfish motives as well - I had never driven across the South and I wanted to visited places like New Orleans, that I had heard and read so much about. My other motivation was to spend some time with my son, taking a trip that we would always remember, knowing that in a year a two he’ll be moving away from our home and starting a life (more or less) independent of his parents.
We leave central Florida at 4:30 in the morning and head for New Orleans.
