Monday, May 14, 2012

Day #7: Vacation Haitus

I'm not sure if this means i don't have to post anything on day 7 or if it means i can post whatever i want about a vacation.  Because day 8 and day 9 are the same thing, i shall post first about a vacation i've actually had that i thought was fun, and then i shall write two posts about two different vacations i would like to take.

My family doesn't really go on vacations a lot, at least to travel.  We like to go camping and will take off to the middle of nowhere and set up and chill there for a week, and it's a lot of fun.  But when we actually Go Somewhere, it's different and a sort of big deal.  The last major vacation we had was when i was in high school, and we took a trip to Maine just for fun.  We were living in Michigan, so we drove through New York and up into Vermont and through there. It rained the entire way through New York, but that wasn't what i remember the most.  It was on the way back, and we'd stopped at a campsite by a lake in Vermont.  Just randomly, there's a law in Vermont that says that you aren't allowed to have any sign rise over the trees because they don't want the visual clutter.  Interesting.  Anyway, camping you have to go to bed shortly after dark unless you want to waste fuel on a light and draw lots of bugs.  So it was after we'd gone to bed that the loons started. I've never heard them before in my life, and i have to admit that it freaked me out at first.  But it was amazing, listening to them.  The laugh was haunting and unhappy, and it struck a chord in me that i didn't know existed, that i didn't really know what to do with.

Either way, that was one vacation, and one memorable part of that vacation.