This past fall, I was easily determined to finally get my kids up to see the foliage where I grew up! This is such a remarkable experience that I wanted to be sure that they saw it this particular year, then it won’t be long before they are gone and this has been one of those unusual things I’ve constantly wanted to do together as a family.
I simply grew up outside of the central air conditioning as much as I possibly could… Any real occasion I had to go camping or get out in nature, I took it! So it’s sort of disheartening that my immediate family has undoubtedly little desire to go camping at all, every time I bring up even a weekend camping trip, I get groans all around… However, nobody wants to leave the air conditioning or the wi-fi or the cable to go out and prefer what nature has to offer; But I started early in the Summer when it came to this leaf enjoying trip. And the more I talked about it, the more I understood this was something I was willing to negotiate over. And I knew it would come to that with these homebound people. So the trip with my family really did happen and it was a great week. But my pal and I stayed in campgrounds where there were toilets and showers and electricity. So I also agreed to bring along some space furnaces as my family was so sad that it would be cold at night. It was particularly worth the compromise even when it came to the space furnaces because my pal and I had such a great time. And the leaves were just perfect this past fall season.