Day Thirteen of the Move

Now that the trip is almost over I’m kind of sad. Even though I don’t want to move to Oklahoma, I had fun spending time with my parents and visiting all of the different sites in each state. Today we are making
the last stops of our trip in Texas at NASA and the Alamo. I found this old Scottish merchant called the ELISSA in my book that I wanted to go and visit, but it was too far out of our path, go figure, with the path we took from California to Oklahoma it’s funny that now my parents would decide to stay on course. This might have something to do with the GPS my dad finally plugged in. Both of my parents seem fascinated by it and I’ve already been yelled at four times in the past hour and a half for trying to suggest a shorter route than the one the GPS gives. I settle back in my seat and drift off to sleep, dreaming of what it would have been like to be Tom Joad during the Great Depression. No GPS to keep them on course, no IPod to shut out the outside world, no cell phone to text friends back home, it must have been a nightmare for the poor guy. When we stopped for lunch and I got out of the car, I realized that it didn’t really matter that Tom Joad didn’t have any of the technologies that I relied on. Looking around me, there were some really beautiful landscapes and it was fun to catch up with my parents and learn what was going on in their lives. I decided to see more what it would be like without technology in the car, but that only lasted about an hour because my mom kept talking about her old knitting circle and all of the different colored yarn that she had used in the past. As much as I wanted to experience what life was like without technology and to bond with my parents more, I draw the line at over an hour’s discussion on yarn.