

When do we leave for Florida?
I remember the days when my family would take the long summer trip to Miami or to Topeka. One of us kids was lucky enough to get the way back area of the station wagon in the morning. Spacious and peaceful. In the afternoon, you didn't want to be back there because the sheets of metal you were lying on felt like lying on the sun. It was a 3-day, 1,500 mile trip that seemed like it took forever. Before the trip began my dad would study the maps and highlight the route we