This will be the first ROAD trip I've ever taken. I know, I know, you're thinking "What, what, what? How can that be?" Let me explain. I've taken road trips before. We've been to Door County, Wisconsin, New Orleans, even drove to Orlando to watch the Boilermakers in a New Year's Day bowl game. But I've never taken a ROAD trip where the road was the trip. Our road trips have always been destination focused. When I explain to friends that I'm taking a road trip the first question they ask is to where. Then I have to explain it’s not about the where but the how. I guess I'm just part of a rare breed that enjoys the journey as much if not more than the destination. While I don't feel I'm seasoned enough to term myself a Road Warrior, I definitely think I could work up to it.
As I drove to work this morning and looked at the rising flood waters, I thought to myself, what will we do if we start our travels and the road is closed? Since the road is the trip I imagined myself reacting like Clark W. Griswold when he arrived at Wally World. Now obviously I'm not going to go get a gun and make them let me drive the road. That would be crazy. I may be crazy but I'm not that kind of crazy. Besides, the unexpected is always good for material for my book.
I'm sure that a ROAD trip will be just as enjoyable as a road trip. Now I just have to convince everyone else.
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