Weekend in Louisville

We just returned from a weekend road trip to Louisville, Kentucky. We attended a wedding of some friends from Champaign, IL.
What do you do on road trips? Play the alphabet game, talk on the phone, text, read? I usually listen to an audio book with Mo, until I can’t stay awake anymore! I also spend a lot of time looking around and thinking really random thoughts while we drive, and even while in rooms full of people, especially when I hardly know them. I think about what people’s lives are like, what life is like in certain places and what types of things I might have in common with where I am, or who I am around. Sometimes it’s easy to feel unrelated, and other times I could see myself there. Maybe this makes no sense at all, hmmm.

I think it’s good to travel, even if it is just a road trip to a nearby place. Even right outside of your city, there are people and places that are different than you. Different is good. It challenges us to evaluate who we are and why. It helps us to relate better, and to realize that the world is bigger than us and what we see. Sometimes we start to think that our location is the center of the world, when indeed it is not. It’s simply where we have been placed. There are so many people out there who are living real lives, in their situation and in their location. Do you ever wonder what life is like for the people down the street? in the neighboring city? in Louisville KY? Ha, I’m sure you do! People need hope, and it’s not just one kind of person, or one place. It’s all over, and wherever we go, we must bring it.

It’s good to be home! I love coming home, especially when the apartment is fairly clean :) I hate unpacking, although I did it right away this time, it’s just the random things from the car that are left to put away. We saw some cool stuff in Louisville…we tried to find art galleries and antiques, but it ended up being the wrong time, wrong place type of thing. We hung out with some friends that Mo has known for a while through grad school, and enjoyed good conversation. We saw the large Louisville Slugger Bat, which is six stories tall! And we attended the wedding, which was cool, not the type of Catholic ceremony I expected, but definitely thought provoking. Louisville is an interesting place, I’m not sure what I think of it. If you have seen the movie Elizabethtown, i imagine it’s an accurate picture of the culture :) My conclusion is that it is very hot and humid.

~ by freddieisnice on June 22, 2009.