Today as I was becoming more depressed about not being able to go on my road trip with Mom and Grandmaw next May, I thought, "Why can't I just make the trip by myself?"
I kinda' got the idea after watching the movie "Atonement," where the character, Briony Tallis, writes an autobiography but creates a fictionalized ending, hence her "atonement." It was a brilliant movie, and I'm sure the novel after which the movie was made is a masterpiece. But if I still make the road trip, I'll gain the necessary travel information, still visit all the places I wanted to go, be able to see all my friends, take as long as I want (sort of), but then create a fictionalized account of how I WISH the time with my mother would go. Or make it really suspenseful and...nah, I'm not gonna' give it away!
When Greg and I lived in a tent in Rifle for most of the month of September, I had the pleasure of meeting a woman from Canada who was traveling alone to an Indian reservation in Nevada about a teaching position. If she's brave enough to travel by herself, then I am too!
If our money situation is such that I can make this trip by myself, then by golly, I'm gonna' do it! I'll stay with a friend in Burbank the first night (do I fly to CA and rent a car one way to MD, then fly back to CO? Or do I rent a car the entire time round trip?), visit my sister's family, then head to Las Vegas where hopefully I can stay with my aunt and uncle. From there, I have friends or family I can stay with. The car rental will cost about a grand (three weeks at the most if I rent round trip), and gas will be another grand, hotel or campsite fees will be minimal since I'll mostly be staying with people I know, then I just have meals to worry about and fees to get in to the tourist attractions.
Hmm...I see an idea...and a story...forming....
