Dad’s Shortcuts

Family vacations were both entertaining and grueling.  We didn’t have air conditioning in the cars.  Dad was always trying to get somewhere faster than anyone else.  Looking at maps, he always seemed to be able to find a “short cut” which typically took much longer and sometimes put us in precarious situations like at the top of some mountain on a logging trail big enough for one car.  It was scary when a truck or car would come toward us and we had to somehow make room for the other cars