Meandering Through the Miles

There is a bumper sticker that I see quite often that says,

"All who wander are not lost." 

I believe that to be true.  On our recent vacation, we made a conscious effort to stay off of the freeways and most direct routes as much as we could.  Our decision was made, in part, because we were towing a travel trailer and driving on the freeway is sometimes a challenge.  But we also wanted to disconnect from the fast pace and make a choice to really see the countryside we were visiting.  Because we stayed off of the interstate, we saw huge berry farms, christmas tree plantations, lovely old barns and lots of interesting people.  We got lost a time or two and had to back track.  We really "saw" the small towns and country  farms we passed through.  We don't have a GPS that tells us which turn to make, so we read the map and decided how to get to where we wanted to head.  It turned out better than "okay". 

Sometimes life gets so very busy that we don't "see" the stuff around us.  We had to take a long trip in a truck to reconnect as a family and really be with each other.  There are lots of pictures to remind us of where we went, but what I will remember most is that we didn't use the cell phones,  or the iTouch and we didn't miss it.  We used the computer a bit to look up places to see and things to do along the way and there are some great things out there to go do.  You can see more of them at 55 on a two lane highway going through the back of beyond on a road you don't know.

Instead of traveling the same route every day or going to events on the same path, choose a different way.  It could change a lot of things.