{"id":26,"date":"2014-03-03T05:22:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T05:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livingfullonlife.instance.website\/?p=26"},"modified":"2014-12-28T09:36:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T09:36:15","slug":"trip-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livingfullonlife.instance.website\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Trip Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I have been so excited lately because I am planning our summer excursion. 14 days of driving almost 3000 miles! Although I know the driving may become somewhat&#8230;tedious (to put it mildly) I still am so excited to see how it will go. I don&#8217;t know why I love road trips so much. Let&#8217;s face it, I just love all kinds of trips! I have this fantasy of Grant and me when we are old getting in the car, picking a random direction and just driving. I would choose for us to avoid interstates, eat at local (not chain) restaurants and stay in little B&amp;B&#8217;s along the way. We would have no itinerary or agenda but to be together driving, talking, exploring, listening to audio books&#8230; Doesn&#8217;t that sound magical? (That is, when we aren&#8217;t at our seaside, four-room, all-bookshelf-and-window cottage or serving missions in the far corners of the world!)<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For now, when I plan a vacation I have our campsites and hotels reserved 5-6 months in advance, and packing lists assembled. I am putting together play lists and audio books on my I-pod&#8230;I have mapped our our itinerary and planned our routes&#8230; definitely a different experience traveling with four children! At any rate, I am just excited to be going somewhere. I am excited to be seeing some of the beauties of our nation that I have wanted to see for more than 20 years (namely Yosemite). I wonder a little if we will be inundated with grandeur. Will we feel like after so many days of seeing so many amazing things will we be thinking, &#8220;Oh look another really big tree. Oh look, another ocean view. More big rocks.&#8221;? Will we take it all for granted and how can I make sure the we are grateful and inspired every day by what we are seeing? I&#8217;m going to have to include this question in my trip planning.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I am grateful for my love of travel, though sometimes I feel like it is a curse. Why does it have to be so expensive?!? The world is such a wonderful, interesting place. Thank goodness for books! For the time being I can travel to far away places through the written word! <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been so excited lately because I am planning our summer excursion. 14 days of driving almost 3000 miles! Although I know the driving may become somewhat&#8230;tedious (to put it mildly) I still am so excited to see how it will go. I don&#8217;t know why I love road trips so much. 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