Driving Vacations A Thing Of The Past 3622

So is the Burton factory in Burlington, or the Ben & Jerry's factory. So's piloting a steamship along a river in CT. I got to hang out at a Times Sq hotel with my older brother as a teenager, and he showed my NYC. Sequoias are unique, but so are all those events in my life.

On top of it, these locations were convenient for family who lived out of town. I got to spend time fishing with my cousins. The time spent with my grandparents, who could not drive long distances above all are some of the best memories I could wish for.

There's lots of great stuff out there to see, and yeah, the Grand Canyon is the biggest crack I've ever seen (and I've had several plumbers here recently), but I grew up next to Niagara Falls. Water falling over rocks that people fly thousands of miles to f*** near.

I was usually 19 or 20 when I went there, so let's leave it as I don't have many memories thanks to ONT's 19 y-o drinking age. ;)

We took plenty of two week vacations to Hilton Head, SC, before it had any overpbuttes or many tourists. I got to see Charleston, Charlotte, Savannah, Baltimore, DC, Columbia, and a ton of other cities along the way.

I also got to see the damage of a hurricane, hail that was bigger than golf balls, experience a real hurricane warning, and survived a tornado. What more could a kid ask for?

I remember in college meeting people who had never left the city limits of Buffalo, and that's a small city with a natural wonder 30 minutes outside it. One of them flew to San Diego recently to visit me, and now has moved about 10 states from NY after realizing there's a big world out there he's never seen. At least there's hope.

DP Hogan