Life is a Highway

Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I wanna drive it all night long...
                                              Rascal Flatts

I love this song because I think it's true.  Life is a highway, meant to be driven and ridden twists and turns, straight aways, bumps and pot holes.  It's all there.  If you always take the highway and never the surface roads you miss so much.  Straight highways are pretty safe.  No bumps, no twists or turns, and very few pot holes.  However, when you take "the scenic route" you see so much more!  This reminds me of driving on I-5 vs. Highway 101.  I-5 is faster, straighter, probably safer, but Highway 101 - oh my.  You see the ocean, and the coastline, and there are some wicked twists and turns, but the view is worth all those twists and turns.  So is life.

I write on here all the time about the positive side of life.  If I had any sage advice it would be this: take the scenic route.  Doesn't sound like much, but it's how I've decided I'd like to live.  I want the twists and turns, the bumps and the potholes.  I like knowing the straight highway exists, but that's not what I want out of life.  I want to see the scenery, I want to enjoy the view, I want to go to bed every night exhausted from everything I've done and seen.  This is just the next step on my life's journey.  The path that God has chosen for me.  He's placed people in my life who are encouraging and supportive and can't wait to welcome my little family to the next leg of my Highway 101, and some are doing all that long distance, and I love you for it. You know who you are ;-) To those of you who are waiting for us, we're taking the scenic route and we'll be there as soon as we can.  Hopefully before the holidays.

This is going to be a busy summer.  School will be out soon and Kaysie will be off to music camp.  We have a little road trip coming up in July part of which we will absolutely be traveling on the real Highway 101 enjoying that beautiful view.  There will be many trips up and down I-5 this summer as well, as we transition to the next route.  To me it's an exciting time, so "If you're going my way, I wanna drive it all night long!"