My 18 year old daughter Emma and I have been doing a lot of travelling lately. While we have limited our trips to just about 3 - 5 hours, her brother Cameron has been cavorting around the globe solo. His last trip earned him about 10,000 miles of frequent flyer points. After three months on the Big Island of Hawaii, he now resides temporarily in Lutsk, Ukraine. He's heading from there to Istanbul, and then dropping by Hawaii again on the way back home to SW VA in June. I know. Get out your globe.
The trips with Emma haven't all been quite as fun, nor exotic. She had ankle surgery in Charlotte, NC in November and we had to go back there every two weeks for about four months. I officially now know how to drive in 5PM traffic around a large metropolitan city. Just close your eyes and gun it.
On the much more interesting side, there have also been quite a few college shopping mini-vacation trips: we've breezed through Spartanburg, SC, St. Mary's, MD, Asheville and Boone, NC. All lovely vacation spots in themselves with the bonus of being hotbeds for academia, if you are so inclined. Em has decided on Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. Funny, I thought after growing up a mountain girl, she would want to see the big city. But when we pulled up to Boone for the first time she thoroughly shocked me by saying "Mom, this is the only place we've been where it is almost as beautiful as it is at home!" Hmmmm. Surprising. But while Boone is a gorgeous place and a fun, fun, fun college town, I think we'll stay put. We were visiting an art gallery in Blowing Rock, a great little town off the Blue Ridge Parkway right next to Boone. When the owner learned where we came from, she gushed all over Floyd, VA. She knew everything about the very vibrant art scene, the Crooked Road Music Trail and the Floyd County Store and the great locavore restaurants. We are getting quite the name for ourselves, Floyd. Shhhh.....Good thing we don't have a college downtown.
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