Another spring time visit
Posted on May 12, 2008 - Filed Under Travel, Parenting
We are on the downslope of our trip back east. It has been a very long 10 days thus far. We drove well over 1000 miles (which cost about $160 in gas, in case you’re wondering); slept in 3 different hotels (including tonight) and 3 different homes of family/friends; eaten exactly 1 home-cooked meal (not that we don’t like eating out–we really do, actually); visited with 22 individual family members and friends; have had to deal with a sick Maggie (she ran a fever for 3 days or so); and will finish up tomorrow on the 2000 mile return flight home. I don’t care what anyone says–traveling, to whatever destination, is a stressful event. We are definitely bruised, battered, and more than a little worse for the wear. It might sound a bit wimp-ish to say that, but I don’t have a problem admitting that we are two people who started the trip each loaded down with work stress and inexperienced at doing this kind of thing with a two year old in tow. Speaking of Maggie, she too seems to have been impacted by the stress and out-of-routineness of this. On this trip, she began taking on the typical ‘terrible twos’ traits more so than ever before. Yeah, it’s been a long week and a half but satisfying in a lot of different ways. We are very thankful to all of those who took their time to hang out with us, feed us, and put up with whichever of the three of us wasn’t feeling especially gracious at any given moment.
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