Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Will the kitchen sin! Family by CHRIS MULDROW Tabloid Editor I love to go places; travel is a chance to see different sights and break the grind of school and work. Of course, most of my travel experience has racked up from years of family vacations, a different animal completely from the road trips I take with friends now that I'm in college. Most of our family vacations were combination relative-visitation/beach trips because my grandparents on my mother's side live at Litchfield. ^ SPRING B Non-Stop (7) Nights Hot Transfers Ac1 CANCUN f-? A I f A A M A f~\ DHI-I/UVIHO SOUTH PADRE JAMAICA DAYTONA (Howard Jc PANAMA CITY o ^^^Brea ; fit in the back seat? vacation The family always woke up at some ungodly hour of the morning. The chipmunks that live all over our house would yell out, "Keep it down, you dang humans. Can't a rodent get some sleep?" Wp narkpH mnrh likp I nark for college: we took everything we owned, stuffed it in any nook or cranny in the car and prayed we could all fit somewhere. My mother always took her matched set of baby-blue luggage, which one of us poor helpless children would have to lug around for her. I'm convinced she brought a weight set in that big " ? ^ ^ BL? iREAK '94 el Taxes Club Discounts :ivities Program from $439 from $329 from &4QQ I I w i ? ? v w from $439 ihnsort). . from Mark II). . from $109 i free brochure call: kaway Travel 800-214-8687 pacing is limited is the ev blue suitcase from hell, (with i matching dumbbells in the vanity bag) X A - . A ? A rtl?,nuo C^am A/1 t A 1V1 y UUU diwa)3 owiuwu iv/ pack a whole lot of fishing and hunting equipment "just in case" he got a chance to use it. The 20 shotguns, 300 rounds of ammunition, half a dozen fishing rods and trolling motor usually ended up spending the whole trip locked in the trunk of the car. My brothers and I had to take every single Transformer, Matchbox car, Star Wars action N figure and He-Man we could fit in the car. We had enough G.I. Joe men to wage war and win against ?? several small underdevelsv...--, oped nations. ?\ Of course, when ?' \ \ we we loaded the r-\\ \ car we had to put ?-A r\ \ everything we \ might possibly SPEND THE SU IN RU Join Russian students at a reso Study the Russian language and/o being taught in English. The progrj prior Russian. The Russian students, on full set Yeltsins and Solzhenitsyns among; and western history. The mornings will be devoted to plenty of time for other planned an Qitccian c4iiHontc IUWWIUI! Total cost for the 8 week course, rental, airfare: ONLY i A local tour package and a we offered at $150 each For a brochure, call USC s 544-1908 OM-800-PY 5 il side o could spend several hours digging through suit bags to get to the map. We finally got to the point of hook ing my dad's camouflage Jon-Boat to the car so we'd have a makeshift trailer for all our junk. I can remember two of the brave vehicles we used to take on our family vacations. The first was a true family truckster, a 1970something burgundy Impala station wagon. Built much like a military tank, that Impala could take anything we threw at it. It fourwheeled through corn fields at the crack of dawn on my dad's hunting trips and land-yachted across South Carolina. The poor 'Pala died one afternoon when my dad was pulling onto a road and a lady came flying over a blind hill and smashed into it. We cried for days. We also drove an '84 Toyota Van, the moon van that taught me what driving was all about. It had a sunroof big enough for three people to stand in and a four cylinder engine that struggled to surmount speed bumps. Our luggage usually lapped over the back seat of the van; my brothers and I would fight for seats, and I'd usually end up laying down on the floor next to the sliding door the entire trip. (I was the poor, persecuted middle child. Pity checks can be mailed to me care of The Gamecock...) We did, of course, draw lines across the seats to designate were our seat ended an our brother's seat began. We had a few traditional stops when we'd go on family vacations. Wp alw!tv? nutted into the old Rush's that's being torn down. It's sad to see that turqouise landmark go. We also often stopped at at least one Hardee's per trip, simply because every town in South Carolina worth a post office has a Hardee's. Largely due to me, we also MMER OF '94 I SSIA rt hotel just outside Moscow, r Russian literature with the latter im is open to students with no lolarship with hopefully future st them, will be taught economics the classroom courses leaving d unplanned activities with the books, room and board, bicycle ^2395 ekend in St. Petersburg are as optional extras. tudent Maxim Kidalov at CCKOE (792-2563) U yj PJ I niwMH fMHB ft f travel stopped at virtually every restroom from Greenville to Georgetown. I'm considering writing a book detailing the restroom industry in South Carolina; I'm going to call it "Dear John: On Paper Rolls and Family Planning Centers." When you're an expert, you should share your knowledge. Nowadays, we take at least two cars on any family vacations we take, and usually at least one family member finds a creative excuse to stay in Greenville. Since all of us kids are drivers now, it's like a big back-seat driver convention any time we go anywhere. It's not any more fun to actually get to drive, because it wouldn't do to show my mother how I normally hit the road. I have to watch the speed limit with extra care, and the races with Highway Patrol N4nctannc hovo trv Kp limifprl In iTiuoiungj iiu v v iv/ i/v iiiuuvu iv/ times when my mother's asleep. Inevitably, too, she'll drive through all the interesting territory below Columbia and turn the wheel over to us on 1-26 and 1-385 to Greenville. I travel that section of highway to get home from school; it's about as exciting to me as watching dust accumulate. One of these days, I guess I'll be loading up my own family truckster and driving from some exotic homestead back to Greenville on a family vacation. I'll set the alarm for 4:30 a.m. and start packing two days early. I wonder if I can dig up a Toyota van somewhere... "^Br Beef up your resume with co-op experience. For more information call the Student Employment Center at 777-2124