Reply #19: That became my situation for awhile after I divorced [View All]

[The Straight Story]

Just my car, some clothes, and a computer. I moved in with parents for a month and worked a security guard job to get enough money to drive to California (from Ohio). I had someone there to stay with.

It was liberating to me on more levels than I can express. Seeing the country unfold as I drove across, seeing things I had never seen before except in books. Mountains and deserts, indian tribes and tons of mexican-americans.

I grew up in ohio, got married when I was 19, and had never really went out of ohio Except to Indiana once and Maryland for a funeral.

I still remember seeing my first mountain. And the first time I hit desert and saw sage brush, and later on Joshua trees.

few cares in the world, except missing my kids and folks.

I miss the mountains and desert, someday I will be back though.