Ticket to Write Steve Stephens commentary : trip tests mettle of family.

Jack Riggs
29 September 2008

I continue to get a sense of joy and expectation on the open road, but it starts to peter out after one hundred miles or so of steady driving. When the trip odometer hits 200, my back has started to cramp and I start to snap at the greasy-spoon waitresses or convenience-store attendants who cross my trail. At three hundred miles I have devolved into something like a mindless, migratory beast falling forward on instinct alone, like a lemming or gnu, but with cards and an AAA discount. ( I am going through something similar on airline trips, all condensed into the time it takes to clear security. ). If nothing else, the twins picked up some valuable travel trips from the drive. Ultimately , there's no place where a timeout can be served within a moving vehicle, except maybe the trunk, and Mommy and Father are much too fearful of the authorities to ever make that move. So , there's no drawback to howling as loud as feasible so long as the car is doing at least 30 mph.

They, of course, then declined to go potty before getting in the automobile -- no candy aisle at home, after all. ( I am going thru plenty of Diet Dr Pepper on the road. ). When we passed Cambridge and the quarter pole of our journey I worked out that, at our current rate of progress, our trip would take somewhere close to thirteen hours. We began to make better time in eastern Ohio, though. At the last stop Katey and Charlie had uncovered Tootsie Pops -- a treat which, we gravely instructed them, was to be licked and not gnawed, and which thus kept them busy for the following 115 miles. When we reached the end of the road at Grandmother's house, the automobile was filled with detritus, wet underwear and the sound of weeping. So now, as I write this, it's time for the trip back home. I am just expecting to make it back safe, and not fully insane. ( Does anybody know of a good clean public restroom near Belle Vernon, Pa.? At a place that sells Tootsie Pops? ). Steve Stephens is the Dispatch travel writer. The Chalet Toboggan Chutes at the Mill Stream Run Metro Park in Strongsville, Ohio are the sole public ice chutes in Ohio. It is open thru Feb if there's snow.

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