{"id":529,"date":"2009-07-06T12:07:36","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T16:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/?p=529"},"modified":"2009-07-07T00:48:02","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T04:48:02","slug":"the-things-we-do-for-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/2009\/07\/06\/the-things-we-do-for-love\/","title":{"rendered":"The Things we do for Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like most parents, we would do (almost) anything for our kids.\u00a0 We want them to have a happy childhood so we don\u2019t have to spend all that money on their therapy after college when they are living at home because they can\u2019t find a job.\u00a0\u00a0 I know, it\u2019s really because we love them but don\u2019t underestimate the opportunity to relive our childhoods through their eyes.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There are few things in the world that make a child\u2019s eyes light up quite like fireworks on the Fourth of July.\u00a0 So how does an over-achieving parent take that up a notch?\u00a0 By going Mount Rushmore for the country\u2019s most spectacular display.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_530\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-530\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-530\" title=\"Open road\" src=\"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/P7020141-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Open roads of Iowa\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/P7020141-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/P7020141-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Open roads of Iowa<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0Since we were a couple days behind schedule, our options were few \u2013 drive, sleep and drive again and run the risk of missing the fireworks or drive, drive and drive some more to get to Keystone South Dakota by the morning of July 3.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure which side of crazy we fall but we decided to drive straight through.\u00a0\u00a0 So after a sad goodbye to our friends, we headed out for a long couple days of driving.<\/p>\n<p>Driving an RV certainly worked to our advantage.\u00a0 The plan was for Dennis and I to take turns behind the wheel while the other one caught a couple hours of sleep in the back.\u00a0 Sounds easy, right?\u00a0 Being the gentleman that he is, Dennis insisted that he stay behind the wheel while I took the first nap.\u00a0 After being tossed around like a lightweight, my head was racing wondering what time it was and is he okay.\u00a0 I rested for about an hour which, in the end, was about 30 minutes longer than Dennis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_533\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-533\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-533\" title=\"The End\" src=\"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/P7020133-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The End\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The End<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<div id=\"attachment_531\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-531\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-531\" title=\"The beginning\" src=\"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/P7020112-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The Beginning\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Beginning<\/p><\/div>\n<dl id=\"attachment_532\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 160px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-532\" title=\"The Middle\" src=\"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/P7020113-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The Middle\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">The Middle<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t all bad.\u00a0 We almost felt young and energetic again\u2026almost. We saw a beautiful sunset somewhere west of Dubuque Iowa and the sun rise in Sioux Falls Nebraska.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure what we missed along the way in terms of scenery but the roads were straight and littered with 18 wheelers delivering their goods.\u00a0\u00a0 By noon the next day, we arrived in Keystone South Dakota in time for the fireworks and ready to begin our vacation for a second time.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_535\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-535\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-535\" title=\"Sunset\" src=\"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/P70201221-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Sunset in Iowa\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/P70201221-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/P70201221-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-535\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunset in Iowa<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like most parents, we would do (almost) anything for our kids.\u00a0 We want them to have a happy childhood so we don\u2019t have to spend all that money on their therapy after college when they are living at home because they can\u2019t find a job.\u00a0\u00a0 I know, it\u2019s really because we love them but don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63,90,35],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/snapshotchronicles.com\/roadtrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}