Dad: Camping Trips and Frustrations
Oct. 28th, 2022 06:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineSo John Scalzi posted a picture from Halifax today.
That clock tower? It's the kind of thing my Dad would never let us get a look at during our cross-country travels in the early 1980's. "You see that over there? That's (Québec City/Halifax/Boston/Hamilton). That's as close as we're getting."
I hated that.
And this was the same guy who trooped our family past Diefenbaker's corpse in Ottawa; Into the Olympic Stadium in Montréal mid-Expos game where the cheers over a batter hitting the ball damn near drove me to run away I don't know where in a panic; a few other sights, too.
That clock tower? It's the kind of thing my Dad would never let us get a look at during our cross-country travels in the early 1980's. "You see that over there? That's (Québec City/Halifax/Boston/Hamilton). That's as close as we're getting."
I hated that.
And this was the same guy who trooped our family past Diefenbaker's corpse in Ottawa; Into the Olympic Stadium in Montréal mid-Expos game where the cheers over a batter hitting the ball damn near drove me to run away I don't know where in a panic; a few other sights, too.
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Date: 2022-10-29 01:29 pm (UTC)Our family trips weren't like that, and we lived near Washington, DC so all the attractions of that city were readily available to us. But I think my father had a particular revulsion for New York City that meant I never went there until I was on my own. To be fair, in that era NYC was getting terrible press for crime and urban blight--but so were most of the cities we did visit; DC's sky-high murder rate was notorious.
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Date: 2022-10-29 01:46 pm (UTC)