It Is a Grand Gesture.
California was warm and beautiful and offered a lot of options for kids wanting to study film. But it’s THREE THOUSAND MILES AWAY FROM HOME, and I really don’t know that film is Shane’s true passion.
So I started planning Shane’s next college road trip before we even left for California. But when we got home, I went a little nuts.
I took our southern-based 1,600-mile trip and added in some fantastic film schools – in upstate New York, which was slightly out of our way.
Then I discovered that Dylan is going to have a short break for Easter – and we were going to see him anyway, on our southern road trip. We have to pick up some of his stuff, to make his move-out easier in May.
So why not take Dylan with us for a few days? We can send him back to school on a plane when he’s done.
And from upstate New York to Nashville, we go right through the college-laden state of Ohio! So I added on a bunch of schools there.
I revamped our little getaway into a serious road trip. We are going north, then west, then south, then north again – in an enormous circle that includes 15 colleges, two museums, a safari, zip lining, horseback riding, and the World of Coca Cola. If we can manage it, we might have lunch with a friend or two. We’ll be driving right past about 10 of them.
It is a grand gesture to keep my son within driving distance.
And of course, I really like to plan road trips.
But if Shane can’t find a college he likes over spring break – at least as much as the one he liked in California – then I will have to give up on new colleges and hope he just uses common sense.
And there’s a chance Shane won’t get accepted by that college in California.
But if he does, I will just have to start planning several 6,000-mile road trips to visit him in California.