I Miss Spontaneity
May 28th, 2008
I miss the random spontaneity of college. I was thinking back about a trip I took with 2 friends I haven't seen in at least a year now. I was spending all summer in Jackson, TN while my fiancée (now my wife Casey) worked at a camp in North Carolina. I hadn't seen her in several weeks so I just started asking around for anyone who might want to make an overnight trip to the Appalachians. So Ben and Catherine and I loaded up in a small SUV. We left Jackson around 5PM and made it to the parking lot of a hotel near where Casey worked around 3 or 4 the next morning. We slept in the car, woke a few hours later, met up with Casey and her family who were also visiting that weekend, and headed for the river. It was just one of those never to be repeated memories. Never again will I really have the freedom to just jump in the car and go when and where ever I choose. I was decent friends with both Ben and Catherine, but none of us spent a ton of time together and yet we all just loaded up in a car and headed out. I don't really regret no doing more than I did, except maybe getting a little too drunk on occasion, I just wish I could go back and do it all over again. I wouldn't change anything, I just want the freedom back.

