In two hours we get to hop in the car and drive for 5 hours to my sister’s house. This is happy. Especially the part about “we”. The last 3 times I’ve gone to my sister’s house either I’ve gone “alone” (taking 4 children hardly qualifies as “alone”, but oh well.) or we’ve driven separate cars. I love road tripping with Howard. Somewhere during the long drive we run out of commonplace stuff to talk about and start talking about dreams. It feels to me like the long road trips we have taken together have been watershed times where we really hammered out how we wanted our long-term future to go. With the long-view figured out it is much easier to steer day-to-day and end up in a happy place.
It is our first post-Novell family trip. I think this is going to be fun.