Lots of my holiday posts had something to do with food. (and NERF weaponry)
My kids were also bemused by seemingly aimless long-cuts taken in the car, which was actually me driving past locations familiar to me as I grew up.
I tried not to bore them with the stories because they were just that, boring.
It was not so much that anything happened, as much as they were places where I had happened.
Tom Cannon reflects on food and places that evoke memories of the past in this post on his blog.
Down The Shore and the Furnace of Time and Place
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