Florida
January 29, 2005
So I got the work in Florida, and will be down there for a couple of days starting Monday. I told my sons this evening, and the younger one punched me on the arm and said, “You suck. I hate you.”
I know this is his way of saying he will miss me, but it is also his way of saying, “I should be going too.” At 11, he has already been to Florida a half-dozen times, including Red Sox spring training and Disney World. He has also been all over New England, to New York, and to Washington DC.
I could do the “I walked five miles to school” routine at these moments. After all, I didn’t see Florida until I was 30, and I really didn’t travel much at all until my late 30s. But I don’t. The world is a big and wonderful place. Why shouldn’t my son be disappointed when he thinks he has missed out on a chance to go someplace warm in the middle of winter?
Posted by Bill Trippe at January 29, 2005 10:14 PM
