Childhood Excursions

The other day Patrick and I were talking about some of the Fun Adventures that we went on as children. For him, there was a railroad track behind their neighborhood and not much else besides. He was able to ride his bike on the dirt and ride down to the creek and explore. For me, we lived in the middle of the city, so there was not as much of this. My cousins lived on three acres of land, out in the boonies, and we enjoyed exploring in the dessert, building forts, avoiding cacti, and generally, having a wonderful time. Also, our family vacations tended to be camping trips to the mountains, which meant that we got to spend lots of time fishing and running around in the mountains. Patrick’s extended family lives in Minnesota and during his summers he usually enjoyed spending time on the family farm. For both of us, we have many wonderful childhood memories that evolve around the outdoors. The world we live in today is different than that world that we grew up in. (Obvious statement of the year.) Where we live is more developed and we have to go further in order to escape "the city." We don’t live in Arizona or Colorado, we live in North Carolina and things are different, but hopefully, our kids can still form some of their own great childhood memories. We need to just make certain that we take the time and effort to allow them similar opportunities that we had as children. I guess that means, for starters, we need to start collecting camping supplies.