{"id":27993,"date":"2021-04-03T07:33:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T12:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27993"},"modified":"2021-04-03T07:35:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T12:35:02","slug":"brian-j-avoids-the-big-mistake-barely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/03\/brian-j-avoids-the-big-mistake-barely\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian J. Avoids The Big Mistake (Barely)"},"content":{"rendered":"

So my boys were both off of school on Good Friday, and since it was two weeks out from our adventures on spring break<\/a>, I wanted to take them somewhere if I could think of it. I mean, we have the Springfield places that we’ve either gone often, doesn’t interest them, or is priced for tourists.<\/p>\n

So I thought about a road trip.<\/p>\n

I thought about going out to Poplar Bluff to have lunch with my brother or nephew, but it’s six hours round trip, and we had church service in the evening. So I looked around for used book stores or places to go that might have interesting things to do. Bolivar apparently has a used book store that is a seamstress’s sideline and a couple parks. But I saw the It’s a Mystery<\/a> book store down in Berryville, Arkansas. It’s only about an hour and a half away, and it looks like Berryville has plenty of places to eat and a town square to walk around. So I piled the boys into the car with their old road trip Game Boys and, when everyone asked our destination, told them, “It’s a Mystery.” That was about the best part of it.<\/p>\n

So they’re guessing as we start down Highway 160. Is it Branson? Is it a museum? And then the youngest, still at the private school, asks, “Is it out of the state?”<\/p>\n

“Do you want to go out of the state?” I asked, playing coy.<\/p>\n

“If I go to another state, I have to quarantine for two weeks from school,” he said.<\/p>\n

Oh, yes, now<\/em> I remembered that edict from the school. Of course, I hadn’t thought of it because we weren’t “traveling” in the vacation sense; we were taking a day trip on a lark. So I screeched the brakes as we approached the Welcome to Arkansas sign, barely averting the disaster of having him home for two weeks.<\/p>\n

Well, it wasn’t quite that dramatic, but I did have to abort the mission and curse the arbitrary PANDEMIC!!!!! protocols which determined that a small town seventy miles away was more dangerous than big cities three hours away on other states’ borders. <\/p>\n

So we ended up driving an hour and a half taking the long way around to a diner thirty minutes from our home in Marionville, which did not impress us, and then driving to run a couple of errands in town.<\/p>\n

So I basically spent four hours in the car yesterday going nowhere.<\/p>\n

It’s not the adventure we’d hoped for, but at least the goal and the result will have been memorable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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