jack long skyline drive

Jack Long
ULLC 100
Dr. Kip Redick
Skyline Drive
I have a large immediate family with three brothers and sisters. When my parents were still together, we would all pile into my parents van and take drives to different places on the weekend. We would often go to Civil War sites because my dad is a big history buff, we also visited places like Monticello, museums and the occasional scenic countryside. Usually, none of us kids really wanted to go because we would be cramped in the car for hours and that always lead to the kids goofing off or arguing.
When I was ten, I bought my first portable cd player so I could keep to myself in the car. I wore my headphones for the first time when we made the trip up to Skyline Drive in the Mountains. Ironically on this day nobody fought, for once we took a quiet drive and for the first time I was glad that I was there.
When we finally got there after many pit stops, and the view was lie nothing I had ever seen before. I was walking with my mom and she asked me if anything was wrong because I wasn’t saying much. I told her that I was completely fine. I felt that I didn’t have to say anything because for the first time in a long I felt peaceful. It was a combination in the solitude of listing to my own music and the tranquility of being in that place.
Now that my parents are no longer together I often look back on this memory because it was an anomaly, an exception when my family got along with each other. Sometimes I think of revisiting the place with my mom and little brother and sister to se if I can get in touch with those feelings again even though that usually is not the case. I think that now I could take another drive up to Skyline Drive and still appreciate that place.