Reply #24: Memories of a lifetime

[Lydia Leftcoast]

When I was 4, I went with my parents and grandparents on a winter vacation to Arkansas. I still remember things from it.

When I was 8, we took a family vacation to Colorado. Having just seen Westward Ho the Wagons, I was thrilled to travel along the Oregon Trail, to make snowballs in the summertime in Rocky Mountain National Park, and to see the Black Hills on the way home.

When I was in my early teens, we made two road trips out West, driving out to Seattle via Glacier Park, down the Oregon coast, down the California coast to San Francisco, across Nevada, up through Utah to the Grand Tetons, and home again across South Dakota.

Flying in a plane can't compare.

There is so much geographic variety in this country (one of the few things the Bushies can't ruin), and you just don't comprehend it when you treat it as "flyover land."