[scottmandue]

Great job!

I am the most evil of all humans... a native born city boy (Los Angeles)

However my dad grew up in Massachusetts and mom was from a small town in Kansas.

We would take a couple weeks vacation in Kansas almost every year with grandma, grandpa, cousins, uncles, and aunts...

Flying was a big deal back then so we drove (two parents and three boys would have been crazy expensive). We did the trip in a old 1950's Chevy station wagon with no A/C, later we upgraded to a 60's wagon with A/C.

As young boys we hated going there but back then children didn't get a vote on where the family went on vacation.

Looking back we caught frogs in the creek, firefly's at night, my crazy brother tried to ride the neighbors untrained horse without a saddle, rode minibikes, my uncle the ex Marine taught us how to shoot guns.

My brothers kids vacation mostly in Hawaii (I kid you not... "Hawaii again?!?").

Now Hawaii doesn't suck, I plan on going back with my wife some time soon... but I thank God for the time we spent in Kansas.