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Since we can go anywhere... Why not Texas? Go big or stay home!
Title (Dublin Core)
Since we can go anywhere... Why not Texas? Go big or stay home!
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Description (Dublin Core)
We didn't know anyone in Texas, but we knew a few people from there, and they were nice. We didn't know anything about San Antonio except that the Alamo was there (we remembered that), and the internet said it had a Six Flags. We had no reason to go anywhere, except that it was July of 2021 and I had just finished what I could only hope would be the most difficult year of my teaching career (turns out it was). We had a tax return in the bank and a fire in our eyes. It was go time. We didn't have to fly there. It cost a lot more, and neither my wife nor I had ever flown in an airplane as children. But then again, we hadn't endured a Pandemic as children either; so we flew.
How did this random trip turn out? Magical. The hotel was expensive, but my daughters loved the pool. The Alamo was full of historical paradoxes, which I completely geeked out on, and we all loved Six Flags. But the best moment of all happened as we walked the cobblestone streets of old San Antonio, sharing a box of chicken. We saw a man camping on the front steps of a church, and my daughters together decided to give him the rest of the chicken, since he was probably hungrier than we were. He thanked us with his words, but even more with his eyes, and my daughters learned that even 1000 miles from home, with nothing but a half-eaten box of chicken, you can make a fellow human smile. And that made the trip worth every penny. I could never ask for a better return from a tax return.
How did this random trip turn out? Magical. The hotel was expensive, but my daughters loved the pool. The Alamo was full of historical paradoxes, which I completely geeked out on, and we all loved Six Flags. But the best moment of all happened as we walked the cobblestone streets of old San Antonio, sharing a box of chicken. We saw a man camping on the front steps of a church, and my daughters together decided to give him the rest of the chicken, since he was probably hungrier than we were. He thanked us with his words, but even more with his eyes, and my daughters learned that even 1000 miles from home, with nothing but a half-eaten box of chicken, you can make a fellow human smile. And that made the trip worth every penny. I could never ask for a better return from a tax return.
Date (Dublin Core)
July 16, 2021
Creator (Dublin Core)
self
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Justin Leavitt
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST643
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
Photograph
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Biography
English
Travel
English
Recreation & Leisure
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
San Antonio
Texas
children
socialization
positivity
the Alamo
Six Flags
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
Arizona State University
HST643
Fall B Session 2024
Collection (Dublin Core)
Children
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
10/31/2024
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
11/04/2024
Date Created (Dublin Core)
07/16/2021
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This item was submitted on October 31, 2024 by Justin Leavitt using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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