A LONG TIME AGO
When I was a kid, we often went on road trips. I suspect this was because, as a military family, we never lived in the same state as our grandparents or other relatives and had to travel to see them, which we did a lot. We drove to Michigan to visit my mom’s parents and see all our cousins and aunts and uncles and we drove to Chicago to see my dad’s mother. There were three of us kids in the back seat of the station wagon… the big boat of a brown station wagon with wood side panels. Often...