4 Places My Mind Went When I Drove 2400 Miles In 5 Days
I love road trips.
There’s something about being stuck in a metal box for hours at a time that’s so … liberating.
I mean, you can’t do anything.
You can’t fold the laundry. You can’t do your tax return.
You’re forced to just sit there — and let your mind meander wildly …
In October this year, my eldest boy and I drove from Evergreen, CO to Monterey, CA and back again in five days.
He was going for an interview for a Masters program in Translation Studies — I was going for a laugh.
It was a soul-expanding journey, as I knew it would be. And my mind did indeed meander wildly.
Here are just a few places it went …
Enough, UT
Traveling like that, in a tiny capsule of space, you have all you need for right now.
You’ve got your snack stash, your Starbucks, a banging playlist and/or improving podcast on the sound system … You have enough.
And you can be pretty sure that anything more you need will be waiting in a store for you at your next stop.
>>>THINKY BIT>>>
Trust that you’ll find what you need as you go along. You don’t need to carry everything, to be everything, all the time. You are always enough.
Opportunity, AZ
The distances we covered were incomprehensible — impossible to hold in your head at the outset.
But the landscape unfolds bit by bit, morphing from craggy gorges to bubbling hills to vast wide plains …
There’s always more, always something new. Limitless opportunity.
>>>THINKY BIT>>>
There’s always more hidden over the horizon. And what’s here now will pass. Relish the journey.
Goals, NV
This was a monster journey.
To be honest, we came up with the whole idea of a road trip (instead of flying) after a couple of drinks one night, so we could easily have bitten off more than we could hope to chew.
Wine-Time Me prolly said something like “Well, let’s just go for it and see how we get on … see where we get to each day” — but Next-Morning Me knew that could never work.
Boy was likely to miss his interview altogether if we just ambled across the country without a plan.
So we analyzed the map, counted the miles, and broke the monster into bits.
We worked out where we could reasonably get to by lunchtime, and then by dinner time each day. And we set our goals.
Admittedly, it was grueling at times — but we made each and every goal.
We just kept going until we got there. Yay us!
>>>THINKY BIT>>>
It’s the whole how-do-you-eat-an-elephant thing, isn’t it. With a big spoon? No donkey — one bit at a time. You can ace any super-daunting project by tackling it bit by bit. Break it down, eat it up.
Time Warp, CA
Time slips on a crazy long journey. Concertinas. Bows.
It’s fresh morning, the sun is sideways, the shadows sharp. Then high hazy light. Now the shadows stretch, the hills glow orange. And it’s night.
A whole day gone in a few blinks that took forever.
>>>THINKY BIT>>>
Oh I dunno. Time’s an illusion …? (Bored now.)
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