Thursday, June 30, 2011

Vacation followed wherever road took us

Published June 30, 2011 in the Commercial Appeal
About a week ago, we set out on our annual cross-country road trip. Rather than head West to visit family as we usually do, we went East to visit friends.

Our first destination was Northampton, Mass., where our friends Liz and Vanessa live with their 6-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter. It's about a 1,300 -mile drive, so we figured our ascent would take about three days. We didn't have any real stops in mind; we just decided to see where the road led us.

We lead such busy, over-scheduled lives that just packing up and hitting the road feels like a real escape for us. Our boys -- ages 7 and 9 -- like the adventure a road trip brings as well. We hit the road for a month with our oldest when he was just 3 months old.

We left Memphis around 9:30 a.m. and spent the entirety of Day 1 crossing Tennessee. We stopped for lunch at a trendy burger joint in Nashville called Burger Up because of its proximity to Las Paletas, a mecca for homemade ice pop fans. Fortified, we kept going until we didn't want to go anymore...(Read more).

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