Road Trippin'

     Having the opportunity to get away for a couple of days, my husband and I embarked on a 501 mile road trip.  It's always good to get out and see how other folks live and have a change of scenery.

     Our journey was part of a seven cities in seven days cruise sponsored by Hot Rod Magazine and is so titled, "The Hod Rod Power Tour".  This year's tour started in Madison, Wisconsin and ends in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  We have done the entire trip several times in the past, but this year we only did two 'legs' of the tour. If a person is a car nut, well......you think you have died and gone to Muscle Car Heaven.

     There are thousands of cars and thousands of people who come from all over the country to revel in tons of steel that has been primed, painted, polished, buffed, geared to the highest horse power possible and pampered beyond description.

     Each day's route to the next destination always takes the road less traveled and does its best to stay off the interstates.  All though it takes a lot longer to travel two or three hundred miles off the beaten path, it is well worth it.  In one day we had traveled through nearly thirty small towns.

     The people who know the tour is coming through their town line the streets in lawn chairs or their own 'project' cars to watch, wave and take pictures.

     Some people had fancy cameras with long zoom lenses set up on tripods.  Most of the people used their cell phones and we saw one car that had a 'selfie stick' hooked to the front of their car....to record successful burnouts. 

     The most amusing picture takers were the ones using their i-pads.  There they'd be, holding this device, which covered their entire face, recording the action.  It made me think of the old box style camera with a black cloth drape that the photographer had to hide under in order to take the picture.  I wanted to call out to them that they were missing the best part, but they seemed content to watch real life in a digital format.

     We saw the skyline of a major metropolis and the wide open spaces of a river valley filled with growing crops.  We saw meticulously manicured lawns and some that were waist high with weeds.  We journeyed through places we had never seen before and came home feeling the better for it.

     Life on the road, it's sounding better all the time.