The day our road trip epically failed
Every once in a while I declare out loud, before God and everyone, that I will not produce the day. Instead, I will open my heart to the road and see what adventures follow. This is what that led to:
1) Let’s go to the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum that I see here on my Rand McNally Road Map.
Two hours later we arrive at the “museum” located in the one town Laura never wrote about in any of her books, likely because her family only lived there for one year. I can report that they had a stove that was “likely similar to the one Ma Ingalls cooked on”
2) Let’s go to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin
Two hours later we pull into the complex, passing a bus driving out. Moments later we find out that was the final tour of the day
3) Let’s go on AirBnB to find a place to stay
We find a “cute and charming house” nearby and immediately rent it for a few nights. When we arrive it’s freezing cold so we turn up the heat. About a half hour later a huge noise starts coming from the basement. Jason runs down the stairs (toward danger like my little hero) and yells that the boiler has sprung a leak and there’s water and steam everywhere. We turn off the heat, run out the door and drive to a nearby hotel. From where I am writing this missive.
I can guarantee you that today I will be producing the hell out of our activities.
-Jen
June 1st, 2012 at 6:53 am
Well… can’t rain all the time. <3
June 1st, 2012 at 9:03 am
Oh, Jen. I can relate to this post so much. Everytime I’m on vacation I just want to relax and just do whatever strikes my fancy… but then I find myself disappointed by my experience. So, I would say embrace your inner producer… at least when it comes to accomodations (important for those to be good) or attractions. Maybe you could let the road tell you where to eat.
June 1st, 2012 at 2:24 pm
I agree Jen, someone in the family has to be the producer. I can’t imagine really going anywhere without a plan, I guess I’m a producer too. My husband & I went out to a movie & dinner a few weeks ago, I made the reservations around the time the movie ended, well it was The Avengers & it was a long movie with what, a good 30-40 minutes of pre stuff, plus the volume was low, could hardly hear previews, after my anxiety started coming to a head my husband got up & told someone but nothing changed, now theatre is really full & moments away from movie starting & I seem to be the only one concerned that we can’t hear, volume too low so I called the theatre & told them I was in movie & couldn’t hear the previews & within moments the volume was turned up, now I know its approaching dinner reservation time but I don’t dare look @ the time because that won’t be good, but as soon as movie was over I was practically crawling over the people next to us. Got out of movie after 6:00 which was our reservation but I called restaurant to let them know we were on our way. I just don’t like being late, ever. So, sometimes being the producer doesn’t always work out as we hope, as I’m sure you know.