It's almost summer, folks. You know what that means: it's vacation time!

I'll be traveling quite a bit in the next couple weeks, and even though it's not for pleasure or fun, it has me thinking about the summer trips my family has planned that are supposed to be fun.

And we're driving, not flying, which is great for me because I LOVE road trips. That's a bit weird, eh?

But it's true. I like the driving part, I like the riding part. Packing the car for a long road trip feels so much more...momentous and adventurous, I guess, than running to the airport to catch a flight. And as a kid, I liked looking out the window as we moved through small towns and big cities, through farmland and forests and mountains. My imagination would run wild as I made up stories about people who lived there. Seems a bit odd to me now, how much I lived in my imagination, but if I'm being honest, I still do that in a way. Only now I'll see something and think, wouldn't that be interesting for my current project or wouldn't that make a cool story.

So what about you? Have any trips planned for this summer? Do you share my love for road tripping or do you feel a little more like this on long car trips:




(Heh.)