When I was a kid we went a lot of places and we always drove. I was a taller then average kid, so being stuck in a back seat with my brother for hours wasn’t amazing most of the time. It was always worth it in the end.

Toronto, Canada:

We went to Canada a lot and I had been to Toronto a lot before this trip. We went for a weekend on this trip, the summer after my freshman year of highschool. We went to see Phantom of the Opera which I loved and made this weekend getaway perfect. Honestly that is the only thing I remember.

Williamsburg, Virginia

I love history and it’s made better by living history, this is something my father and I had in common. I was seventeen and was starting my junior year the following month.

I remember being crammed in a car, I was already 6’2″ so that was loads of fun for fifteen hours. It was August, why we went in August is beyond me. It was late night when we got there, pouring rain and a hundred and four degrees. I can only describe it as feeling like being in a hot shower fully dressed.

We stayed for a week, there was a lot of changes going on at home. During this time, my parents were in the process of looking for a house and we were packing. My father had just sold the local internet provider he Co-Owned to a larger company. I was processing the fact that I would be leaving the only home I had known and was not happy.

This is the trip that I think about when I think about my father.