AAA offers its members trip tickets - wonderful little maps giving directions to your destination and back. I suppose they are becoming more obsolete with the navigational systems available now. When you rent a car, they give you the option to add a GPS into the mix. So far I (and my pocketbook) have resisted. So I still call AAA, order a personal agenda, and go pick it up. They make it sound so simple. Just follow the directions and all will be well.
The advantage is that I can see the whole journey from beginning to end, and avoid areas of construction, or potential slow downs. Just about every page of this map had high traffic warnings about slow downs. Sigh. Perhaps the price of gas will thin things out a bit, but I doubt it. Driving around Chicago is always demanding.
I will do as I always do - bring lots of CDs, remember to stop at the last rest area before a major city (otherwise you will be singing anchors away for hours), and trust the good Lord to get me through safely. Travel is difficult at best, stressful to all, and even without complications, tiring.
I just heard from the kids in Wyoming, and they are having a stressful time for sure. Little kids, unfamiliar surroundings, sick people, strange hotels, unusual foodstuffs - they don't have a trip ticket for what they are encountering. I am praying for them to have "a table prepared beforehand" to quote Psalm 23. For God to go ahead and make their way endurable. I can't be there with them to help, but I sure can cover them with prayer. Not a trip ticket, but a good thing all the same.
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