If I invite Dennis to go for a road trip that will include lunch out . . . it’s a “I’ll get the car out.” It was unfortunate that our favorite place in Bird Island was closed when we stopped there for a noon lunch. Apparently the family-operated restaurant had a family health emergency. Small town businesses have challenges just as anyone of us can experience.

It was a great getaway for us filled with good things all around. No matter how much our road trips are looked forward to . . . it always feels so good to drive into our driveway and know we are home. It could be construed as a sign of complacency, but we know where our hearts dwell.