The Next Road On Your Left : Destiny

"As often happens the detour often ends up being your destino, your destiny." Sandra Cisneros

It was a hot summer day and my cousin Mauren and I were sitting under the huge walnut tree in my aunts yard. I was 11 or 12, she was much older, 20 or 21. I was dreaming out loud about getting my drivers licence. I told her that when I got it I was going to drive down every road I had never been on. She laughed and said that I sounded like her when she was younger. I told her I wanted to see everything I hadn't seen. Of course I still haven't driven down every road, I haven't even gone down all of the country roads surronding my little town. I like it though, when I am driving and hit a detour that takes me somewhere new and I like when I pass a road I haven't been down and I have a few extra minutes to turn and ride a little ways before I continue on my way. You never know what you will find, a river, a field, a tree that looks climable, or maybe all of the above being destroyed for yet another new subdivision. What ever it is it is nice to see a little more of the world (unless it is a new subdivision) and expand the horizons of what I know exists.