Today...our first outing and ride as a full-car four-of-us family. Granted we were just returning a baby-wrap sling to Target, we did one of our favorite things: take a coastal ride listening to NPR to get tea and coffee while the kid - make that kids - nap. Both Harrison and Zelda slept the whole time. Throw in a Redbox movie and a bag of animal crackers, and you've got the cheapest family outing a father could ask for. Tanya and I have been taking rides for years now, and we know every inch of the North Shore's 127 and 127A from Rockport to Gloucester down to Lynn and Nahant and back up again. Their isn't a nook on the Cape we haven't physically (while driving) mapped out and slowed down in order to stop and smell the sea air more than a hundred times. Once we kept driving and ended up spending two weeks across America. That was before kids. And now that we have them, they'll see their fair share of the moving sky outside the window while dad keeps his hands at 10 and 2 and mom adjusts the volume on the radio.It is a wonderful life.
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