Thursday, June 14, 2007

There's a Jesus Billboard off of I-81 Going South

There's a system for everything. And the process for this system works the same in any context. When dealing with people you care about, the process can be sticky. It can take time. And sometimes all you need is timing.

We had been planning this road trip for a year. Now it's just me, 3 weeks off of work, and some visits to friends and family that I haven't seen in awhile. Maybe it'll still include a trip to Nashville or up to the mountains. It'll definitely include a trip to Louisville and Chicago. There are plans to go up to Philadelphia and I'd like to see the ocean at some point. Now all I have is time.

My drive from Leesburg to Boone during college was six hours. Sometimes I would dread the traffic and trucks along 81. And the more southwest Virginia I would get, the more churches and hell and damnation warnings I would see. Funny that I thought I was heading in the exact opposite direction: from a supposed hell to what I saw as heaven. Then one fall break my roommate came home with me. She talked about how beautiful the drive was up through the Tennessee mountains and then onto the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. I was so busy complaining that I hadn't really stopped to realize how much I loved that drive. How much thinking can be done while alone in the car. I'm looking forward to it.