Thursday, July 16, 2009

A DRIVE BACK INTO THE PAST

Since I started my vacation on Friday, I made arrangements to take a road trip back to Southern Illinois, where I was born and raised. I went alone, which is something I haven't done in years. It was a very pleasant drive althought all around me to the left and to the right were storms. Right over me was a patch of blue sky. The trip itself is only 292 miles, so it's not a long exhausting trip, just long enough to be long.


My first destination was to meet my childhood neighbor, friend, and schoolmate from grade 1 through grade 12. She is Valla Leifer Klettke from New Jersey. We hadn't seen each other in 40 years. Would we recognize each other? Would we be able to connect from past through the present. Well, I was so pleasantly surprised. We both recognized each other and it was a warm and pleasant greeting. We could have spent days talking about our younger days and catching up on the last 40 years. But the time we spent together was just so very refreshing. We want to do it again at the next available opportunity.


1 comments:

DEBBIETHEOTHERMOTHER said...

I WOULD OF GONE WITH YOU....WHAT FUN YOU MUST OF HAD..I ENJOYED LOOKING AT YOUR HOMES FROM THE PAST, MEETING UP WITH OLD FRIENDS....WHAT A GREAT TRIP FOR YOU.YOU GO BOBBI