Father and son grow up on the road

“Do you even go?” I picked up.

A month before leaving the college ten hours in the northeast, you needed to see the signs of life, and some excitement, anything other than indifference or decompression that was only deepened during the summer above planning.

“This is the graduation gift, right?” It was calm, measurement and smile. “As part of that gift, I don’t want to plan anything.”

They say the tone. I now know that the journey was for me as much as it was for him. To register access. To find out if we were fine. To re -call.

Make a week in a small bus all the contact he never requested.

When starting from San Francisco, we put the third row on the ground, and we transferred the captain chairs in the second row as possible, and we encouraged the cold behind the central console so that any of us could reach it from the front seats.

In the deep storage bucket below the armrest, we maintained sunscreen, error spray, additional phone accessories, a trail mix, and children with sour correction. The console unit has not improved space and storage, as well as the mini van, with its gradient shelves and side pockets. However, it was sufficient enough to maintain the basics within my hand to our frequent position. The first was Pinnacles National Park, where the inner temperature jumped 20 degrees and the heat diluted only by apparently overcoming the intestine in the prehistoric garden.

Again on the road, we installed the chilled front seats at the SX Prestige level and we headed south towards San Simeon to get what could be the most covered road in one day. V-6 had a capacity of 280 hp, as the V-6 had a large amount of energy to pass it on single highways, but it would be great for them to exceed automatic fluctuations 8 speeds on arduous demand, as the large loop was delayed. He was calm and smooth enough.

He was asleep within minutes, not different from what he was when he was a child. The cotton did not change the energy of 4 directions, and he did not lean until the passenger’s seat. His conversion, he connected the external earphones and left the close to me open.

This default setting has become one of our phone, one bud, one outside. It was present with me about 25 % of the time, which I appreciate because that was greater than the house.

I played with the truck instead, using the cabin camera in a 12.3 -inch touch screen to see how the contents were thrown into some access ways. One thing I could not overcome that Kia has since had eaten is the chaos of the console. I could ship my phone in the wireless charger, but his 9 -footed -length phone and rope scattered on the console and slipped on the side on all shoes scattered at the rear entrance at home, which irritates paternity and motherhood I never brought out. I assume that it is the joke that he and his sister will use later: lining the damned shoes, and closed the damned door. Have you drank enough water today?

The 2025 carnival now has a wireless smartphone, so there should be less visual chaos. We failed his phone and operating lists, and I was happy to know that he discovered Radiohead recently. He turned me into a sudden rainbow, and I returned it to Wilko and asked for a more grateful dead.

After setting up a camp on the trick in the Washburn camp in Hurst Saint Simyon State Park, we took Ferisby, some drinks, and a good time to the beach for the first sunset in the Pacific Ocean. This was the only thing that I explained when planning began months ago: “I think I want to see the sun set on the Pacific Ocean.”

The journey was not just a gift of graduation, but rather promised a position he presented to him and his sister to graduate with honors. Anywhere within the neighboring United States, your choice. It comes out with the highest honor. This modest justified because of the preserved years of the epidemic. For all of us. As for the face, after canceling the graduation from the eighth grade and all its related traffic rituals-the school trip to Washington, DC, and the post-dance boat ride on the Michigan Lake, the parties, the fresh year remotely, the second year in the masks and offices confined to Plexiglass-more than large but unknown consequences.

We had no idea if children were fine. I am still not, assume. Parents and motherhood do not really know.

At 3 am, the stars were a scene.

The next day was an ambition – on the seals of the elephant and even for the Hurst Castle before it reached the road again – and is risky. Laughter and deep conversations from the last night were shattered on the beach of breaking an unaccounted camp and moving forward. Drawing a 18 -year -old communication cycle is an unspecified area, with the exception of the known danger zone in Hangry straight.

We were beaten when we got to the Moro Strand Beach. We stopped under a beach tree and agreed to relax before creating the camp. He was sleeping in the passenger seat before he finished draining the cold. I went up behind and operated.

SX Prestige has seven seats with captain chairs in the middle row. Unlike the lesser models without receiving energy, heating and cooling, this setting prevents you from removing the entire chairs. The seat has slipped to the farthest posterior position, which is usually hugged against the third row. Backed back, Legress began, and since the sun was working over the ocean, it opened the opening of the roof. The carnival contains a roof opening, one for the facade, one on the second row. It is a nice touch, better than the panoramic preparation because it divides the cabin into two areas with the sky.

Even in this most extensive position, I couldn’t extend my legs, but put them to the side that is going to be good. I assumed that I could switch to the other side and move the driver’s seat forward, but the beach breeze that blows from the open side door was largely perfect. There was snoring and torrent. This will not be the last time we did in the carnival.

He discovered the Lego Minifigure store and wanted to return to San Luis Obebaso. Thanks to the driver aid technology group that included parking sensors, backup lines and blind point camera that warned me to a bicycle passenger that I could not see, the car was the second largest small bus on the market. In a café, where he dropped milk and looked at the store store across the street, we were reminded that this man, my son, was still a boy.

As much as I tried and failed to act as a peer, let him do something of his own, progress in all decisions, and still is a composer as a father. I was, I will remain so. Duh. When I called him to walk in the city on his phone instead of beside me like the base, his reaction was by walking in front of me on our height to a waterfall in a boycott forest.

By the time we got to our first hotel, a discharge on the beach of Pismo without air conditioning and windows that did not open, we reached the mid -road sign. He needed a break. His room had a door that barely left.

I walked on the corridor and the sidewalk through the sunset, and returned what I said and I should not say, and how I should not behave. Dolphins overlap with surfers. The beer sat in cold. In the dark, it was received in the truck, and the camping things we did not need to be mobilized. Parents and motherhood in a mini -form: the transition before I fully realized what was going on.

I have mobilized my father’s cortical pirate bag from Vietnam with the tent, sleeping bags, souvenirs and other things that accumulate it, but we will not need it anymore. This was the first time that I used it and our equipment is completely suitable without being a burden while flying, unlike the old backpack for providing it in the back country. Before we left, I asked my son if he could know how to close it, with the four episodes and one clip. You need YouTube. He needed 30 seconds.

I admired the durability and simplicity. The equivalent of luggage has become a carnival: nothing is evacuated but very practical. Like my father.

In January, he told me that options were thought to treat lung cancer. My brother made a face and anxiously that he could die that night. I was in Toronto with my daughter. The first trip was the next day. I called my son and asked the impossible: Can you go to ER to be with Grandpa Duff in my place? He did this without hesitation or protest.

This boy, my son, was a man.

Meet me later, a night creature became. We found a place with Dartboard, chose the root beer, talked about garbage, and hit me in the cricket, which is the second time that he hit me several times as he played.

It was a year full of events, much more than me. Within three weeks, he would have left everything he knew that he was surrounded by anyone he knew in a place he never knew. What I knew about what was going through was like the surface of the ocean, at the same time quiet and stormy. There was a lot of what happened under its surface.

We left the carnival behind the ferry to strive to Santa Cruz Island in the Park of the Channs Islands. At a major intersection, he challenged me on the height to the peak, and the extension of our five -miles -long ring, which doubles our time and will not care less if we leave the phrase behind us overnight without food, darkening water, and no shelter. I felt almost enough to give up the wisdom of life and reveal the adventure of the youth. We will not do that, but his soul was magnetic. On a trip back, I pushed him awake while the captain slowed by a dolphin nursing pod, and more than one week than I saw, and the water danced like the celebration.

_________________________________

2024 Kia ​​Carlival SX Prestige
Foundation price: 47,665 dollars, including 1,365 dollars
The price is also tested: 49,480 dollars
Driving: 280 hp 3.5 liters V-6, 8-speed automatic transmission, front-wheel drive
EPA fuel economy: 19/26/22 miles in the gallon
Positives: Mobile Den, quiet, comfortable, spacious, my son grows up
consApple Carplay, not cheap, my son grows up