The "Road" is calling. -- Photo by Pat Bean
“Not all those who wander are lost.” JRR Tolkien
Travels With Maggie
“Just can’t wait to get on the road again.”
If you’re a Willie Nelson fan and avid traveler like me, the above words should send a tune rolling through your head. The melody always begins rippling though mine when I start packing up my RV – which I’m doing this morning.
There’s few things that make me giddier than knowing I have “miles to go before I sleep.”
While I’ll just be traveling a short distance across the big state of Texas – from one child’s driveway to another child’s driveway – I ‘m going to take two days to do it.
A trio of web-footed friends -- Photo by Pat Bean
Better yet, I have a sight-seeing agenda of places I haven’t seen before planned for the drive. I could care less that I will be taking a 150-mile detour on what would have been just a 240-mile trip.
Maggie, familiar with the packing up routine, is already claiming her co-pilot’s seat.
So since she and I “just can’t wait to get on the road again,” today’s blog is going to end now. like the song I sang as a kid to the tune of Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever.”
Remember?
“Be kind to your web-footed friends, for a duck may be somebody’s mother. Be kind to your friends in the swamp, where the weather is always damp. You may think that this is the end. Well it is.”
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