Road Trips

I love road trips. The very first thing you do before you go on a road trip is to fill up your gas tank and I make sure I have lots of music to listen to along the way. I spent a lot of time when I was younger traveling all over Washington in the car traveling to my different sporting events. Mostly soccer and when I was in the premier league we would have to travel to Seattle every other weekend. My favorite thing to do on road trips is take in the scenery. I get lost staring out the window for hours.

Passing by the beautiful clouds and pounds and trees that seem to change shapes from one moment to the next. I get lost following the lines in the road as they whiz past me.

I enjoy looking at powerlines for some reason. Perhaps it's the shapes they make or all of the energy they hold in them. They seem so important but so out of place when all you have seen for hours is the simple landscapes of fields, trees, and clouds.

It is always fun on any road trip to stop at the cute shops and gas stations that one would never see in the city. I usually grab a snack and a drink and look around at all of their original nick nacks they have for sale.

I always hold my breathe when I see police around. It seems so easy to speed on the open roads during a road trip. I've found myself a few times not paying attention to how fast I was traveling and all of sudden I am pulled over and ticketed like that red truck. I have even resorted to using a radar detector in my car a couple of times. But I try not to speed too fast most of the time.

I love driving around curves and not knowing what the landscape will look like around the other side. Most of the time it is the same thing you've been staring at for the last hour, but once in awhile you do get a suprise. Sometime your further along in your road trip than you thought you were.

After miles of flat land it's nice to see the shapes of trees again, and little houses off in the background. I imagine living in one of those houses and my mind wonders off into a day dream.

I've passed this bridge many times before but always enjoy the site. This day the clouds look amazing and the mountains frame the bridge perfectly at this angle. I enjoy this site significantly and know in moments I will be on the bridge.

Driving throught the bridge I enjoy the architecture and design of it. I tend to daydream again about what it took the builders to build it and wonder if the top of the bridge serves a purpose or if it is just used for aesthetics.

My favorite site to take in on every road trip is when the sun starts to come down. Sunsets are a spectacular site on road trips. While driving in the car, every moment changes and at the same time the sun is coming down. You get to experience a sunset at different places with different looks and that is the one thing I think is the most amazing about road trips.