road trips + go

as many of you know, i took a road trip to nashville last weekend. chicago to nashville––about nine hours with a few stops thrown in.

i love love love road trips!

don't know what it is. most people i know either love them or hate them. i have always loved them! perhaps it is because that is the only kind of trip i took as a child. {i did not fly in a plane until i was a sophomore in college.}

perhaps it is because i went on so many bus road trips in college with my choir––touring all over the united states. those are some of the very best memories of my life!

whatever it is, i love the open road, some good music, fair weather, windows open and time to take in the scenery. driving to nashville and back was just that! although we had a little rain in kentucky, it was for the most part a wonderful ride!

i got to be the passenger the whole time, as the hubby drove the entire way. lucky me! not that i mind driving. i would have. but this time, i thought i would like to have my hands free in case i wanted to take pictures.

well, having only had three hours of sleep before we left, i found myself too tired to even do that. i know––shocking! but i am one of those people that can not sleep while in any form of transportation. don't know why.

so this was a no-sleeping, no-picture-taking ride for me {except for a few shots like the one above}. as we entered the more rolling, hilly, lush green territory of kentucky, i kept thinking, "oh, i should be getting some of these views on camera!"

there were so many picture-perfect scenes of the most wonderful barns on grand open farms. and so many colors of barns like i've never seen before––blue with white doors, silver, brown, grey, white—not just the typical red barns. and they were set back perfectly from the road with the most beautiful surroundings!

you would think after the first couple, i would have taken out the camera and been ready. but then i realized that sometimes i am so busy trying to get a shot of something i see, that i never really take it in with my eyes and my memory. sure, it's nice to have a record of things that i can always go back and look at. but sometimes i think it's better to just live in the moment and take pictures with my mind's eye.

so that is what i did. we could have flown and missed it all. people often travel this way now days for convenience. i'm glad we did not. i'm glad we took "the road less traveled".

i can't tell you how wonderful the trip down was. i put in a cd of one of my favorite all-time groups, the innocence mission: glow {which i am eternally grateful to my twin sister for introducing me to}, and reclined in my seat to take in the sweetest views with the sweetest sounds. it was pure heaven! i'll never forget it. those images are burned onto the hard drive in my head.

probably my favorite song on the cd is called go. {and it's not just because my name is in it.} here are the lyrics. but you should try to listen to it if you can––the whole cd, actually. in fact, ALL of their music.

~go~

georgia,
it grew in the night when you thought it was
tired, and how can it always recover and come
and want to whirl you around with your eyes closed,
no matter how you say: i won't go,
go.

georgia, we follow along. it goes pretty far.
you go ahead, i am going to wait in the car.
instead of run with my feet when they won't go.
okay i will , but i dont' know. go.
go.

and you would think now hope would be tired
but it's alright.
you would think now hope would be tired
but it's alright.
you would think tired, ragged and oil-brown
but it's alright.

and i know it seems useless,
i know how it always turns out.

georgia, since everything's possible we will still go,
go.

and you would think now hope would be tired
but it's alright, it's alright.

i love their lyrics––that's why you'll often find me posting them. hardly a song makes sense to me, but it's like poetry, even if i don't know what it is about. it's individual lines of their songs that resonate with me. and the music is just so peaceful and mellow and relaxing. perfect for the open road.

have a happy weekend, friends!