Jewells of Thought

Share a story about the furthest you’ve ever traveled from home.

Cincinnati. It was one week with my cousin Lilly, I was so nervous about the drive, but excited to get some girl time with one of the cousins I had equated to be a sister of mine.

Thankfully the week before it happened it was decided I would go with Aunt and uncle and cousin. Again thankfully my younger cousin Justin went with me in my car for the entire drive. I kept up with Uncle Floyd and was pretty proud of doing so. The Alsmans tend to have a lead foot I had learned that from Grandpa and I think I inherited it too.

This trip was the culmination of several blessings. At the time I was going to Oakland City University, but the timing allowed me to receive a check from St. Mary of the Woods for the $250 music scholarship I had received upon my graduation honors. Thanks to Mr. Aydelotte the Guidance Counselor at UHS. He was such a character, but I miss him. He helped me find the scholarship and I know I’m not the only one he helped on our way out the door our senior years.

Nothing has ever matched this trip for me until I started making work trips as a Patient Care Technician or perhaps Dialysis nurse for DaVita or Fresenius. Ohio was strictly a family and leisurely trip though. It’s really the last time I had such a lengthy time with Lilly before she got married and really started moving all over the country.

Now all I can think about is taking a trip to Los Angeles or Boston, a much larger trip, but with the man God wants me to be with. Boston is where he is from so that is where I would much rather go to see his roots. Only God can show us the future though.