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bestcee

bestcee

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Today we went on a fall drive around the mountains with my mother in law. I love to go on drives and just enjoy the scenery, and company.
Plus, she (senior) was able to get a National Parks Pass for only $10 for life! Super cool!

Do you ever just go for a drive? Or do you loathe them?
 
I've been trying to go on a drive for weeks. Seems something always gets in the way. Hoping to go next week though drive and stay.
 
This is me on a "leisurely" drive...

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If I have a destination, I'm ok, but if you've seen one set of trees and you've seen them all :giggle .
 
I like driving, but I'm usually the driver, so I don't get to admire the scenery much. (I get headaches if I'm not the driver most of the time). I am like Jen... I like the scenery, but need a destination. :)
 
I would like to go on drives just to enjoy the scenery, with no destination in mind, but don't think of it. I drive plenty just taking my kids to their activities and events. I do admire the scenery on those drives!
 
Growing up, my parents thought that "going for a Sunday drive" was fun, and would drive for an hour or more one way (sometimes 3 or 4 hours one way!). I hated it. So like @jenevang I am not good in the car without a destination. And even then I still hate sitting in the car.
 
On my trip to VA and NC I drove and drove for hours -- had a destination but it was so gorgeous I couldn't get enough. I never got to a destination on time.
 
Depends!!! I have to be in the mood, but I generally like it. I LOVE it in the fall for sure! If we had mountains here, I am sure I would do it a lot more. (these Ozark mountains do NOT count in my book!)
 
I like to drive places. Road trips. To see scenery, yes, but I suppose I need a destination as well. Going on a vacation, I would like to drive to the vacation spot. I just don't always enjoy the drive back. Much like walking distance from Disneyland when going... love walking in, hate the walk back to the hotel. Haha
 
jenevang said:
This is me on a "leisurely" drive...

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If I have a destination, I'm ok, but if you've seen one set of trees and you've seen them all :giggle .
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I laughed!! And, respectfully disagree. New England falls are the most gorgeous I've seen. Utah isn't as pretty, but has its own beauty.

KatrinaHunt13 said:
Depends!!! I have to be in the mood, but I generally like it. I LOVE it in the fall for sure! If we had mountains here, I am sure I would do it a lot more. (these Ozark mountains do NOT count in my book!)
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Um, I've never seen the Ozarks. But they used to call this hill in New Hampshire a mountain, and I laughed. They even had bumper stickers that said this car made it to the top.

klee73010 said:
I like to drive places. Road trips. To see scenery, yes, but I suppose I need a destination as well. Going on a vacation, I would like to drive to the vacation spot. I just don't always enjoy the drive back. Much like walking distance from Disneyland when going... love walking in, hate the walk back to the hotel. Haha
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Did you know that there's actually a real perspective difference when walking from the gate to the castle and vice versa?
 
bestcee said:
Did you know that there's actually a real perspective difference when walking from the gate to the castle and vice versa?
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I did not, but it doesn't surprise me... i was speaking more about how tired your legs are at the end of a day of Disney, and then having to walk back to the hotel after all of that. :giggle
 
I LOVE a good road trip (we did a 4,000+ mile, 14 day trip a couple of years ago), but am not much for driving just to drive. I am ready to load up and head out in the camper at pretty much a moment's notice, though!

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oh I love to drive anywhere...but I have found in the past year, I adore being a passenger in our little convertible....I just sit back and smile.
 
I love it ... especially during fall's leaf peeping season! It is magical here in the northesat.

I like it as long as it is scenic and off the beaten path ... but I will say I think I like it because I grew up with it. I lived in a Nat Geo type house. My Dad always had Mutual Of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, Jacques Cousteau or Marty Stouffer's Wild America on the TV. (and this is going back to the 70's and the days of 1 TV usually per household!) And as kids my Dad thought it was "fun" to drive around with the family on Sunday's to "see nature". There usually was a fun-ish destination involved ... a remote park w/ waterfall or creek ... or a farm of horses that we would "sneak feed" a few carrots or apples (shh, don't tell). I think he got us to go on these drives bc we knew we'd get to play in a stream or run through a field of wildflowers or play at the park's playground or feed some horses at the end of the drive. Yeah, he totally bribed us. Sometimes we got ice cream at the end too. So it's always been a part of my life I guess.
 
I'm another one that usually won't take the time for a drive just to drive... I need a reason.
 
I used to do a lot of driving just to see ...whatever...esp in my 7 years in England. I might be gone for the whole day and only drive 10-15 miles. With my one son, then two sons, we would stop for any tree, bush, church etc. My older boy loved reading tombstones and I never minded letting them have 'tinkle' stops in the hedgerows.

Now, even two lane roads can be high speed and full of those huge transport trucks as I found out recently in central NC. I could barely stop to see anything for fear of something bearing down on my over the last hill. Plus, I've become one of those people...oh, more red rocks (Southwest) or oh, more trees (I-85 in VA). Mostly when I drive I'm going somewhere but that said, if I'm on my own, I will venture down most any road that takes my fancy just to see what's there. And yes, my arrival time is usually much later than what Google predicts.
 
The thought has literally never occurred to me! I'm way too cheap to "waste" gas and pollution ... although I suppose if you are getting quality time out of it, it isn't really a waste. We have mountains close by, and we have to drive through them to get to the ocean. I tend to get car sick, so driving in the mountains is usually a "have to" kind of thing for me.
 
I need to be driving or a passenger in the front seat if it's more than just a few minutes as I am prone to motion sickness.

With my back pain we haven't been on drives much. We used to like to drive around neighborhoods and check out front porch decorations and lawn landscaping. Driving to the beach and watching the sun set is also a good thing, too. It's something I do love to do.
 
I love pretty drives, especially around the mountains, but I'm so goal oriented that it usually has to end in something useful...like a hike or waterfall for more viewing!
 
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