Blog from a while ago on myspace

I decided to post some of my myspace blogs on here:

April 23, 2008 - Wednesday

I was just thinking of the three years I spent living with my grandparents in Salem. Before grandpa couldn't drive anymore, he loved driving for hours, where ever the car pointed. One day, a few years ago, I was with my grandparents on one of those drives. My grandpa wanted to show me where my grandma (who had passed away. . he was re-married) grew up. We travelled on this little dirt road in the middle of no-where until we reached a tree that was where her house stood (I think the town where she lived until she was 5 was called Elberta). After finding the tree, my grandpa decided that he wanted to take a jaunt over the mountain to show us where he and my dad used to hunt. Turns out that he was in the beginning stages of Alzheimers at the time and didn't actually remember where it was. We were driving in a Ford Escort, we should have been in a 4X4. As we continued up the mountain, my step-grandma kept letting my grandpa know of her objections to this adventure. After the third time we had to get out of the car to move giant rocks in the way, my grandpa acquiesed and we bumped down the road and back home. But it was definitely an adventure I will always remember. And I'm grateful we could do it before the Alzheimers got really bad.