The Road Less Traveled

I took the road less traveled by,

And it has made all the difference.

~Robert Frost

The shortest distance between two points is a line segment connecting Point A to Point B. But why does it have to be a straight shot?

After driving back and forth to Ohio on a nearly monthly basis for the past year, the route has become a bit ho-hum. I often get home and realize I’ve driven on auto pilot. You know what I mean. You arrive at your destination, but don’t really recall how you got there. I wanted to shake it up a bit this weekend, and decided to bypass the interstate and instead wander the back roads.

Yes I was traveling through Ohio, Indiana and Michigan in early spring, which translates into flat, brown scenery. And yes the skies were overcast and sporadically spitting. But this diversion forced me to open my eyes to take in everything around me. Those cloudy skies, the spotted cows, the cornfields and quintessential Midwestern small towns. And barns, of course.

It may have taken me all day to get from Point A to Point B, but the time seemed to go twice as fast. And it was a trip I’ll definitely remember.