Vacation 2014: A Big World
From 2004 through 2010, our family's trips were to my parents' homes in east Texas and south Louisiana to clean out one and tend to the renters in the other. We travelled for three funerals of parents. After that, we made a trip to Corpus Christi, a weekend trip to Houston and another to Waco, and a two trips to Oklahoma, one to purchase a headstone and the other to celebrate my Aunt Nadine's birthday. This summer, we took our first big vacation. No funerals, no headstones, no selling family homes, and we were gone for a whole week. It was a very big deal for us. We decided to make our first tours of national parks. Our main destination would be the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee and North Carolina. Along the way, we would visit Vicksburg National Military Park in Mississippi. There is so much to experience in our own vast nation. We wanted to go somewhere that...