Road Trips

We are in the middle of the school holidays in Australia. It is spring here, and after next week, schools in most Australian states will open again for the final term of the year. So, you are doing little studying at the moment.

School holidays are times to chill and catch up with friends outside of school. Maybe you take road trips. My mum and dad used to bundle all of us (five kids in my family) into the car, and we’d hit the road.

Back then, music was whatever played on the car radio. That is if the radio could connect to a station. Often, it didn’t. If we were on the highway between towns, all we heard was fuzz. So, my dad would turn it off.

Portable music devices were years away. We played car games like Spotto and Windmill. Car cricket was another. On one trip, we passed by a large mountain that looked like a gorilla sitting on the ground.

My brother and I spent hours making up stories about how the mountain came to life. We would have loved some music to go with the tales. You know the sort–creepy music when the monster gorilla crept up on something. Fast, action music when people chased it.

Would we have chosen classical music? No, but it would have been great to have chosen any music. Instead, we got the fuzzy radio station that wouldn’t tune in until we hit the next town.

Happy holidays! (if you’re having one!)