PORCH PONDERINGS

A Vacation, What a Concept

PROMPT March 24th

Write about some of your most memorable vacations. Where did you go? Who were you with? What was your favorite part of the trip?


We never went on many vacations as a family when I was a kid. If we did it was in a soft-sided travel trailer. When I married, we never had money to do anything or go anywhere. So my kids never had vacations of any type. I wanted to go camping, but my husband at the time claimed he had enough camping in the army, so that cheap option was off the table.

Current hubby had a different attitude. He took me to New York City for the first time. We saw a Broadway show and went to a nice restaurant, stayed in a nice hotel. We went hiking on the Appalachian Trail once. We took a trip to Arizona and hiked a trail in the desert. Then when we lost our jobs and had to sell our home, we took the ultimate vacation; we traveled full-time in an RV. We started in Ohio in the fall and worked our way South to avoid winter in the North. I loved that time of traveling, him not so much.

I would still like to travel but now we are on a fixed income so that option is again off the table. Unless a rich uncle dies. We’ve already had one die, Uncle Walter. But our 'Uncle Sam' is about to bite the dust. So perhaps when he dies we can travel to Canada. It’s not too far from Montana.