Almost There

Almost There
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We all have memories of family vacations: the cross-country marathon drive, the camping trip, a couple lazy weeks at the lake, a helter-skelter month in Europe, four days in Disneyland. The variations may be endless, but the common denominator is that there are always stories to tell. The family vacation, with all its funny, sad, relaxing, stressful, frustrating, and exhilarating moments, shapes us, and helps us create an understanding of who we are and of those we travel with. In his humourous new book, Almost There , award-winning writer Curtis Gillespie explores the meaning of our family vacations, the memories created by them, and how we use these memories to define our relationship with our families and ourselves. Using his own history of family vacations as a backdrop, Gillespie explores how the meaning and symbolism of the family vacation has shifted throughout the decades. For years, families drove across the country or relaxed at a lakeside cottage. Now even the middle-class travel with their nannies or go on a Disney cruise … or take their nannies with them on a Disney cruise. As he sifts through memories and explores family vacation history, Gillespie ultimately discovers that not only is how we choose to vacation an expression of who we are as individual families, but that the very nature of the family vacation reflects, and sometimes even predicts, societal change. The family vacation is something we all share; the laughter, the tears, the moments, the memories. In Almost There , Curtis Gillespie reminds us how important these moments in our lives are, and how important they will continue to be.

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Curtis Gillespie. Almost There

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Half an hour after we’d arrived at the Meteor Crater, my mother and sister were strolling around the crater’s rim, enjoying the heat, the brilliant sunshine, simply being out of the car. She’d sent my father off with the five boys. Mom and Janine stopped at one of the designated viewing areas and peered into the 600-foot-deep crater, taking in its awesome scope, perhaps recalling what she’d told us all earlier, that the impact explosion was 150 times greater than Hiroshima.

“Hey, look,” said Janine, pointing to the distant centre of the crater. “There are people down there.”

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