Write about a car trip.

Daily Writing Practice Prompt for September 9, 2008: Write about a car trip.

This is an interesting prompt, which brings back memories of my childhood. I remember a car trip taken by the family over the Fourth of July holiday. My grandfather drove the car with six passengers. Four of those passengers were children under the age of ten. My grandfather was a very patient person.

I don't remember the type of car he drove at the time. What I do remember was packing all the food in the trunk of the car, which until we started loading it seem very large. However, as we put the boxes and things into the trunk it got smaller and smaller.

My grandfather, grandmother and mother rode in the front seat. We four kids, two girls and two boys, rode in the back seat. It isn't a good idea to put four sibling in the back seat of a car at the same time. However, my grandfather was not a man to put up with squabbling. He was also the type of person who meant it when he said he would pull off the side of the road, if we caused problems. All grandpa had to do was start to pull off to the side of the highway and we settled down.

I think I'm going to have work on this memory a little more. Maybe do a free write and see what else I remember about that trip.