Driving

Categories: holidays, scming, family

Tags: holiday, friends, family

Date: 04 August 2006 23:48:59

I've been thinking about driving a lot recently as it appears to be the main activity during my week off (this week), Rambling Folkie and another friend have passed their driving tests.

I took my mother on holiday to the end of the country today - or at least it felt like it. Okay - the journey there was fine. We stopped in the Eden Project on the way and it was really cool. Last time we went, all 5 of us (family) visited but we couldn't really go round the humid biome for very long, so we started there... It was a really lovely.

After dropping mum off, and getting her settled in a bit I turned round and came back. About half way through the journey I decided I was too tired to keep going and needed to find somewhere to stop. It took me an hour and driving over large chunks of Dartmoor before I found somewhere sensible. In the end, the journey was only about 30 miles longer on the return than the outgoing journey. It did, however, take twice as long as the original route seemed to. It was also interesting the effect that Dartmoor, a couple of days worth of reminiscing, darkness, and driving on my own makes. I suddenly remembered all the myths and legends (well - probably not all of them) that I learned when I spent huge amounts of my childhood exploring the moors. It was a little spooky and that seemed really silly! At least the recollections of the moor also provided me with enough knowledge to get back to where I wanted to be... without the use of maps.

Anyhoo... I'm tired now and need to sleep. Tomorrow I'll be taxi service for my grandmother and on Monday I'm going to another fair city - about as far away from where I am now as mum's holiday location but in another direction.

*Yawn*