username: Glacier-Lily
name: Shasta
After Mt. Shasta, we drove by it during one of our road trips, and I really liked the name
gender: Male
favorite thing about summer: The family road trip!
Every summer; for the first two weeks of august; me, my sister, my mom, and all the junk we bring with us, is all crammed into her small car. My sister plays on her Ipod or Ds in the back, my mom drives; occasionally providing a witty remark that causes a hilarious conversation, and I'm our navigator. As navigator, I make sure my mom doesn't turn off the highway early, and try my best to prevent us getting lost; this job keeps me in the passenger seat, so I'm also in charge of music.
When I don't need to direct my mom, or find a good song, I'll either read, draw, or attempt to nap.
We've been to some amazing places during our road trips, Writing on stone park, Disneyland, the San Diego zoo, to San Francisco, up the Oregon coast, and even to a potato museum in Idaho.
Our road trip has us on horrible hours, but we're never actually exhausted until we get home. By that time we're sick of being on the road, eating sour keys and popcorn, sleeping in motel rooms that are either haunted or where someone was murdered (or so my mom says), seeing mutant marshmallows (don't ask), and merrily singing 'Home for a rest' by Spirit of the west, as loud as we can, incredibly happy to see the familiar landmarks near where we live.
Our road trip is always the best part of my summer.