Day 3 - 225 -- Scenic Travel

It felt like a long day. After a reasonable sleep away from home, we were up early and back on the road to get home around lunch time. We had some fun with a GPS app and interacted with the voice when it insisted we take the long way around. It eventually caught on to what we were planning to do. <smile>  So -- Directions were fun, with only one place where I took the wrong fork in the road, but was easily able to turn around and carry on. The day began hazy, due to humidity and smoke from a major wild fire in the forest west of where we were overnight -- eyes are rather scratchy today.

Road trips can be quite invigorating, but also bring weariness. It is an interesting conundrum -- fun vs. fatigue. The scenery can be inspiring. Local culture and habits can show us other ways to do mundane tasks. Meeting new people can bring new thoughts and sometimes new friendships. It seems that the rate limiting step is getting ourselves out on an adventure. They need not be lengthy -- day trips can be as rejuvenating as a longer trip. We seem to only visit closer sites of interest when we have visitors from away. I suggest that we need to visit some of these places and play tour guide for ourselves not only for others. Another challenge to add to the list.

When driving yesterday and today, we took a back road to shave off some time from the longer four-lane highway system. The road had slower speeds posted and many tighter turns, but it saved us about an hour along with some heavier commuter traffic. Besides, it was much more scenic. Lyrics for the selection today discuss the joys of going off the main road and could be a metaphor for taking the road less travelled (as also noted by Robert Frost). Enjoy!

Take a back road -- Rodney Atkins