Dreaming of the Next Big Family Road Trip
Posted in Dreaming, Road Trips, Uncategorized on August 31, 2009
We just got home a few weeks ago from a massive road trip in which we logged about 50 hours in the car, drove through 8 states, and visited several dear friends. This road trip had a mission though…to move my little sister and her two children to Suffolk, Virginia where she began her life as a Navy wife with her new, wonderful husband. My two children played with her two children the whole way. We saw some very cool stuff like the Mayfield Dairy, Suffolk Peanuts, Boyd’s Bear Country, Mt. Trashmore, loggerhead turtles and lots of corn (blog posts to come in the near future on all this great stuff!).
We got the huge Uhaul truck unloaded and we got my sister unpacked. The trip was bittersweet. It sounds like everything went smoothly right? Why is the trip bittersweet then? Well, for the most part it did go smoothly. We only had a few mishaps (like the morning we left we realized my sister had ordered a truck that was too small and she couldn’t fit all of her household goods…yikes!), but the saddest, most bittersweet part about the trip? Waving goodbye to my sister, my new brother-in-law, and my niece and nephew.
For now, I have pictures to go through, a road trip video to make, emails to send her and her Facebook status to check. Luckily, we are all equipped with video phone on the computer, we are all linked up through Facebook, and we can text unlimited! It doesn’t feel like she is all that far away until I want to call her up and see if she wants to meet for a Girl’s Night Out or when my son asks when we are going back to “Birginia” to see Big D. It is times like these that I start planning the next family road trip in my head. I know we will be going back to Virginia next summer and who knows what might happen in between. We have a tentative trip planned for October and they have a tentative trip planned back to the Gulf Coast.
Maybe we will just throw a bag and the kids in the car and drive the fourteen hours for a short visit just because we can.
I love you and miss you lots Marissa, Declan, Keira, and Dan!
Drop by Mother of All Trips to read about her Empire State Dreams and see what other travelers are dreaming about.
I love the picture of all the kids in bed. How bittersweet indeed! But at least now you have something to look forward to or trip to be planned.
That picture of the kids in bed is one for the ages. And I love that you’re thinking of taking a 14 hour drive to see your family just because you can. That’s a sentiment I can definitely get behind on Monday or any day.
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Okay … now you’ve got tears in MY eyes!!!
We miss you too! I am lucky to have such a talented blogging, road-tripping sister, nephew, and niece! Our beds are always ready for company! As to the cousins in bed…they didn’t HAVE to all sleep in that bed together, we were in a HUGE hotel suite that night!…they were DYING to be so close at all times! Moments to be remembered forever!
OK, now you have me crying to
. My best friend is moving to Uruguay this fall. Not THATS a long road trip!
Wow! Sounds like such a fantastic trip. Just spent time with my sister and her kids. It’s precious to have siblings who you can travel with and cousins who have loads of fun together. We did quite a bit of road tripping to summer ourselves and I am so thrilled that our kids are old enough that they can sit and listen to audio books for hours on end without a complaint. We drove one day for 14 hours with a sick child who slept on and off all day and a 6 year old who couldn’t get enough of Swiss Family Robinson. We listened to 30 chapters that day.
Amy-We are definitely excited about making another trip up there! So much to do and see along the way!
Luckily, this trip was wonderful. I love Swiss Family Robinson! I can’t wait until my kids are old enough to listen to extensive novels in the car!
Mara-We are so lucky that the four cousins are close in age and love to play with each other. We have so many cousin pictures, it was hard to choose!
Mom and Riss-Start packing/getting the couches ready for a trip!
Bridget-That is too far but at least it is a reason to go to a new place!
Lilang-Family trips can be so exciting (and stressful!