Family Vacation

Happy sunshine, cricket singing, frog croking Friday.  It is prime travel and tourist season here in Texas.  My Dad took our family on a vacation every year.  Sometimes winter trips to the mountains of New Mexico or Summer in Colorado.  Not that we had much money.  Mom was an expert travel planner and Dad picked up overtime, did his own vehicle maintance, just whatever it took for our annual travel adventure to happen.  My Dad was so smart and practical and always made sure his family was comfortable. Us kids would crack up when he took the Family size Banquet Frozen Fried Chicken out of the ice chest, wrapped it in foil, popped the hood on the Rambler, placed it on the motor and down the road we went.  Texas has some beautiful rest areas and I think I have eaten Banquet Fried Chicken at most of them.  I was on a day trip recently and we stopped at a scenic view rest area off  US Hwy 83 just outside Leakey. Standing under the tin roof that reflects at least some of the Texas Summer sunshine heat from the concrete picnic table, I was transported back to the 1970's.  My brother, sister and I tumbling out of our family camper, wearing homemade cotton shorts and cowboy boots, making a bee line for the guardrail, ignoring for a moment the 'Mommy noises' muffled by highway traffic and childhood selective hearing.  The view from that ledge of the Texas hill country took our breath away and still does for me.  Lots of vacation memories I will save for another day. Have a super  sunshine Friday. kisses