[speaker001:] what was the last vacation you went on anyway
[speaker002:] well we went to California over Christmas
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] so that was nice we traveled by car though and that wasn't real nice because I have four children
[speaker001:] ooh that's a long trip with four kids in the car
[speaker002:] it surely was
[speaker001:] yeah uh that sort of a trip can be kind of long just by yourself
[speaker002:] well yeah we went to spend Christmas with my my family there and then my um girls are real involved in soccer and so we had a soccer tournament there also but
[speaker001:] well that works out
[speaker002:] yeah it was real nice the weather weather cooperated and and it was real pretty there how about you where have have you gone mostly East
[speaker001:] uh yeah uh yeah so far the about as far East as I've gone uh trip about five years ago up to uh Minneapolis uh flew up and then drove back
[speaker002:] oh how was the drive back
[speaker001:] uh well uh the weather was wonderful the roads were fine uh the car I was driving back was a problem it kept wanting to fall apart
[speaker002:] oh that's no good
[speaker001:] basically I was bringing it back for the sons of a the lady I was renting from
[speaker002:] huh
[speaker001:] uh because one son living up there owned it wanted it rebuilt uh and restored and son back here was going to do it but couldn't get loose for a couple few days to go up and get it
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] so
[speaker002:] what time of the year did you drive
[speaker001:] oh that was uh in May the weather was wonderful
[speaker002:] yeah I was gonna say the weather probably was real pretty then
[speaker001:] yeah um flew up it was the first time I'd flown and uh flew up just above uh thunderstorms that stretch from Texas at least up into uh the Great Lake area
[speaker002:] yeah they have some whopper of thunderstorms out on these plains
[speaker001:] so we're watching oh yeah yeah we got to watch I got I got to watch uh thunderstorm from the other side for once unique experience yeah the lightning from the top side is a unique experience
[speaker002:] lots of lightning yeah
[speaker001:] I always enjoyed watching it from the bottom side but it's even more fun from the top
[speaker002:] huh now
[speaker001:] um most of our vacations though have been you know camping trips of one sort or another or just going home to see family
[speaker002:] and now I hear that you have children in the background
[speaker001:] I well actually I'm at a pay phone the post office
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] um no I do have one child he's about twelve weeks old twelve and half weeks old now
[speaker002:] oh congratulations you'll be taking him on some of trips then I guess
[speaker001:] why thank you yeah yeah from looks of things wife and I are both in school
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] the next trip is probably going to be next Christmas uh several of my siblings have decided that it'd been too long since we were home for Christmas
[speaker002:] now where's home
[speaker001:] uh West Virginia uh that's home for me
[speaker002:] oh yeah
[speaker001:] uh I met her down here so her home town is only about uh an hour and half drive away
[speaker002:] huh
[speaker001:] but uh I'm a thousand miles from home so they're supposed to they're they're trying to arrange to get us train tickets uh to go up home three of us
[speaker002:] oh like an Amtrak
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] huh have you been to Georgia
[speaker001:] yep I've been through the northwest corner of Georgia that's been it uh that's pretty much in route between here and home
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] so there's about a nine mile stretch of Interstate fifty nine that cuts through the northwest corner of Georgia
[speaker002:] yeah well we went there last summer again for a soccer tournament and it was just beautiful there
[speaker001:] but uh yeah yeah
[speaker002:] they have some kind of vine there that grows up and down and up and down trees
[speaker001:] kudzu
[speaker002:] yes that was it
[speaker001:] yes this stuff is an absolute white on humanity it seems
[speaker002:] yeah but it's so pretty
[speaker001:] is it's pretty it it's it when it's genetically engineered that's the that's the southern version of what they've got up north called multiflora rose which is also engineered and it's almost indestructible
[speaker002:] yeah huh
[speaker001:] I mean you about have to expose the you know the first four feet of the soil to you know high levels of radiation to kill it off it this stuff is incredibly durable
[speaker002:] yeah see I kept talking about how beautiful it was and the natives there just would roll their eyes like you're crazy this is awful stuff but I remember calling home and saying it's too pretty here all I'm staying forever
[speaker001:] yeah yeah its well you see that stuff what eventually take over everything and literally kill off large old trees if it gets the chance
[speaker002:] yeah oh
[speaker001:] so most that states in the Southeast have uh spraying programs where they go in with defoliants and try and kill it off
[speaker002:] so do you have that there
[speaker001:] here in in Hattiesburg area no not yet but apparently it moving this direction
[speaker002:] and me yeah not yet uh huh it's coming huh
[speaker001:] actually up in the Delta you know four or five hours drive north along the Mississippi River they've got it there too
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] but right now it hasn't really hit the uh the the general area around here place
[speaker002:] yeah so what about South have you been to Florida
[speaker001:] uh one trip I used to be an auto mechanic
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and one evening I got sent down into let's see Fort Walton Beach with a wrecker to tow a van back for a
[speaker002:] yeah