Mark KennedyI remember looking at our family’s fall travel schedule back in August and thinking to myself: Whoa! How in the heck are we going to do this?
It’s not that we are world travelers; far from it. None of the 10 trips we took as a family since mid-August required a passport. Nor did we cross the Mason-Dixon Line, or even the Mississippi River. Only one trip involved air travel.
Both our sons, whose ages are 12 and 17, play on travel soccer teams. That means a lot of weekend trips to cities such as Atlanta, Birmingham, Nashville, Gatlinburg, and a few longer trips to places such as Raleigh, North Carolina, and Bradenton, Florida.
Just booking and planning 10 weekend trips over the course of five months is a bit of a chore; but it’s also a lot of fun and necessitates a lot of time spent together in a car.
Depending on the day – and the mood – there is a fine line between bonding and bondage.