Of course, we were traveling in the ’80s and ’90s, long before the days of the supposedly family-oriented trips of today, in which children are apparently taken to special destinations to go on special activities arranged specifically for their pleasure. I get cranky about that. When my friends with kids worry aloud about whether their children will be properly entertained by the fifteen hundred different available activities on the kid-friendly cruise they’ve booked, I recollect us driving across Iowa with only the Corn Palace to look forward to,2 expected to entertain ourselves for hours
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