Travel Notebook

Yet another road trip began with the forgetting of an important item five minutes into the trip. My dad’s girlfriend swung the car around, and my dad ran back into the house to fetch his forgotten phone. In preparing two cars and eight people for travel, it’s easy to lose track of those tiny things, such as the tiny machine that serves as your lifeline. In my dad’s case, a brand-new one. After the necessary gas station snack run, we drove two and a half hours to Edgefield, Or