On the Road
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Just me on Monday, September 29, 2008 4:00 PM
I love being near the water. I grew up in a town on the edge of one of the Great Lakes, and I think there is nothing like it.
If you’ve never seen a Great Lake, they truly are Great. From the shore, one of them looks pretty much like an ocean, and I love to sit and look out over the huge, calm expanse of water.
Currently Bryan, Camilla, and I are on vacation in Pennsylvania, visiting my uncle and his wife in the town where my mother grew up. The mountains here aren’t huge by mountain standards, but to someone who grew up in Michigan, they seem quite hilly enough.
I can see what my mother loves about this land. It’s more interesting than Michigan’s flatness, and there’s something inherently peaceful about the mountains.
It would be very difficult for me to live in the mountains, though, because I’m cursed with a tendency to motion sickness. When we’d drive down to visit my grandparents during my childhood, my brothers and sisters would beg Dad to drive quickly up and down the hills “like a roller coaster!” and I’d be sitting the back, clutching my stomach and praying for mercy.
Oddly, I really enjoy roller coasters, and have never gotten sick on one. The human body is a funny thing.
Camilla seems to have inherited my motion-sickness gene, because on Friday night when we were driving up through the mountains from the airport, she got sick suddenly in the back of the car. She’s been fine since, so I can only assume she was just carsick.
Given my own motion sickness and my daughter’s, I’m grateful that we don’t live in mountainous country. It’s fun - and beautiful - to visit, but I’ll take flat old Michigan for living in. I like to have a big body of water within easy driving distance, anyway.
What kind of geography do you love best?
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