Hitting the road after Butler

Everyone has such high hopes for their breaks, whether it is their winter break, spring, or summer. This is no different for me for my summer plans I hope to set up a short road trip. I was inspired by my cousin Nick who is currently taking a two month sabbatical traveling around the state of Texas, up to Kansas, and making his way to California. His trip is a little more extensive and way more expensive than I’m willing to go. I plan on maybe hitting up a few towns in Ks, and then headed south to Georgia or Texas; it’s obviously still in the beginning stages of planning.

Nick started his trip on the 21st of this month. I’ve heard nothing but bragging for how much fun he’s having. Nick and his traveling companion, Eric, have figured it out to how they have somewhere to stay and someone to feed them everywhere they visit. Since my trip would be considerably shorter, it wouldn’t be that hard to figure that out for myself. Though I have to admit, I’m way jealous of his life at the moment.

I will probably spend the majority of my time in Amarillo due to the fact that I have so many close family members. That’s actually where I spent my spring break. I drove down by myself and stayed with Nick, we didn’t do that much besides just hang out and watch some movies, but I did have a ton of fun. One of the days we spent on Palo Duro Canyon; hiking and whatnot. It was beautiful up on top. We split up into three groups and competed to see who could get down first. My group jogged almost the entire way down, we won by almost five minutes. Other than that we just got as many free meals from Nick’s parents as possible and roamed around town.

I can say that I had more fun that I truly expected to have considering we had nothing really planned at all. I came to my final decision to go about three days before spring break came about anyways. Obviously there was no real thought put into this trip besides whether or not I had money for fuel, but I’m glad I went and I hope that my summer trip will be just as fun if not better.

~ Rachel Hoeffner