An eventful road trip with Ryan

When I was younger and my friends and I would road trip, we had just the right music for road tripping.  The kind you crank up and everyone sings to.  So about a year ago I decided to take Ryan on a real road trip.  It was actually about 2 hours south of where we live.  We get into the car, stop for lunch first, and then hit the open road.  The first thing Ryan does is puts in a CD of the Beatles.  Now don't get me wrong.....  I love the Beatles music, but it's not road tripping music.  So then Ryan puts in a CD of Celine Dion.  Once again.....not road tripping music.  So, I take over.  I find a station that has a good mix of like Journey, Aerosmith, Foreigner, etc.  Then we flip it over to some Commodores, Bee Gees, etc.  Now all of that is road tripping music.  Then Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild" comes on......  We were flying down the interstate jammin' to "Born to be Wild!"  Thus, Ryan's first REAL road trip!  He of course was shaking his head, holding on for dear life, thinking his mom is crazy!  lol

Fast forward to today.  Now anytime we get out and about we call it road tripping.  We jump in the car, run some errands, and then we hit the open road!  What's the first thing Ryan does?  Grabs that CD case and puts in the Beatles.  Yep, how soon he forgot.  I said, Ryan, that is not road tripping music.  He said, I know......  So he pulls out his Goldfrapp CD.  Okay, that music is okay too, but for some reason it give me a headache when I'm driving.  So we compromised to listen to 2 songs on that CD.  Then he found something on the radio, and we were good.

Recently, Ryan's favorite commercial is that AT&T commercial that has the guy talking to kids.  There are a few different one, but Ryan likes the one where the kid says his grandma moves slow and when the guy asks what might make her go faster the kid says, tape a cheetah to her back.  So we are driving along on our way to Tampa, and there is a SUV with Busch Gardens stuff all over it  next to us.  It was kind of driving slow.  Ryan says, tape a cheetah to its back.  I said, yeah it is driving kind of slow.  He says, no mom, really, it has something about a cheetah on it.  So we had a good laugh there.  We went hopping around to various video stores.  This is always the highlight to Ryan's day.  Of course I have to get some store time in too.

We moved on....  We went into Ross, and I went into the fitting rooms to try on a dress.  Well wouldn't you know that Ryan spots these teen girls that he is convinced are shoplifting.  I come out of the fitting room, and he is hiding and spying on these girls.  I walked away and he did not follow.  I said, Ryan!  What are you doing?!  He says, I am sure those girls are stealing and I want to see this play out.  I thought I would never get him out of this store.  He told me that he was watching a real life  "Cops" show in the making.  Yes.......this is what I deal with from time to time.  Welcome to our world!!  lol

We went through some shady areas of Tampa.  We actually saw a real hooker.  Ryan asked if she was for real.  I told him she was, and this was the area that they usually street walk.  So as we are heading home he comes up with one of his famous jokes.  He says, mom?  What does CVS, Walgreens and hookers have in common?  Not sure if I wanted to hear the answer to this.....  I asked, what?  He says, you see one on every corner.  He started laughing!!  I was just shaking my head.  This is my man-child......  He is a genius I'm sure.

That is a day in the life of road tripping with Ryan, and I loved every minute of it!

Peace!