“You Can Go Your Own Way”

You’re going on a cross-country trip. Airplane, train, bus, car, or bike?

The title of the above famous Fleetwood Mac song refers you need to find your own way in life plus traveling by your mode.

In my lifetime, I have traveled across the US twice even once to Hawaii. One trip was a flight from DTW to LAX non stop when I was very young. Later on, my parents made the crazy decision to drive out west from Michigan to CA taking the northern route there and the southern one back.

To date, I’ve seen most of the US, Canada and Mexico because my parents wanted to show us that the world is bigger than the island which we were living near the international border of Canada and south of Detroit.

Thought that I was moving north of NYC so I flew out there a few times. Took a chartered bus once or twice to a camp up north. Have considered Amtrak as well for price and for comfort but there were many stops in Chicago.

As far as bikes are concerned, I’ve rode around the infamous Mackinac Island, White Pine Trail in Michigan plus the local bike trails in the mid cities region of the DFW metroplex. Plus, the bike trails along Lake Michigan in Grand Haven and Holland with rode biking in northern Michigan.

In previous writings, I had considered moving to the NYC suburbs in Connecticut that involved rental cars, airplanes and trains at Charlotte Douglas airport.

“You Can Go Your Own Way.”

Leslie Elizabeth David.