ROAD TRIP!

Tomorrow we start day one of our 1,100 mile journey to watch my oldest son Gabriel graduate from Basic Training and AIT at Fort Knox, Kentucky.  I am so excited, but at the same time I feel an awful churning in the pit of my stomach.  No, I don't get car-sick, but the very thought of traveling 1,100 miles in the cramped confines of the Hemi with my children to get to the graduation, and then back again is filling me with dread!  Its like having a baby, the baby part is great, but unfortunately you have to go into labor to get the baby out.  Labor sucks.  So, I'm sure, does traveling cross country in a suddenly not-so-large pickup truck with 4 of the wildest young people I know. Gabe is trying to come home with us for a couple of days.  That means 7 people in the truck on the way back.  Those dog kennels are starting to sound better and better as time goes by!

I am disappointed that I have not been able to spend any quality time with my Nikon D70 with all the house cleaning, trip preparations and work.  My goal... to become a paid photographer!  Unfortunately thus far my only subjects have  been ducks, geese and magpies... who refuse to pay for having their photographs taken.  I think I need to find a new market, but that will have to wait until after I quit my job.

For those of you out there who have graciously invited me and my family to visit as we pass through to Fort Knox, thank you so very much.  I would love to take each and every one of you up on your hospitality, but we have some pretty stiff time restrictions.  Once Gabe clears he only has 8 days before he has to inprocess into his new unit, which doesn't give him much time if he is to travel home with us.  I look forward to one day meeting all of you.  I can't adequately express the kinship I feel for everyone who visits me here and is brave enough to come back again.  I hope you will feel free to look me up any time you are in my neck of the woods.

But for now... I must finish packing.  We leave at sun-up.... maybe.... nah, we'll be lucky if we're out of here by noon.  We have lots of time to get where we're going so I've already made Dickidoo agree to stop at any photo-op that I may notice.  I missed out on a lot of great shots over the summer because he would not pull over and now that I have this new camera I don't intend to miss out on anything!   I have a feeling he may regret buying me that camera for his birthday by the time we complete our 2,200 mile road trip!  Say CHEESE!