Roadtrip
This week-end I am going on a short roadtrip. My destination: Alabama. What awaits me at the end: friends from around the country, most of whom I haven’t seen in two years. But what will happen along the way? Ahh, that is the mysterious, evocative question. Life will happen along the way. And it will be interesting; and it will be spicy; and it will be good.
I am rarely so happy as when road-tripping. A good road trip is like life in that the beginning is also and end and the end is also a beginning. And, while we humans like to mentally class life’s events into “stories,” the story of a roadtrip just doesn’t fit into the box of a classic story structure. No real climax. Just pure character development and nutty, eccentric random events. It is such a perfect emblem of life as we know it.
