Kier's family is unusual

My Family is Unusual

by Kier Shaklee

Why is my family unusual? Well most families go on about one trip a year where as my family goes on lots of trips. My dad is a privet pilot so we normally go in a small airplane.   My family is unusual because we go on trips in small airplanes, we get to see unusual things, and drive around in unusual cars.

Some airports have courtesy cars for doing things like going to get lunch.  In Texas we once had a police car, ancient and rusty,  that had back doors that couldn't be opened from the inside.   Also, the head liner disintegrated if you touched it. And then, in Wyoming we got a flat tire in the courtesy car. In the hard gravelly parking lot, dad changed the tire.  In Durango the van only had one back door, and it didn't open so we had to climb over the front seat to get in or out.  Courtesy cars are for your convenience, but they are some times not very convenient.

We get to see cool things in small towns that you don't normally see when you take a airliner. We got to see the Stratica salt mine in Hutchinson Kansas.  They were still blasting in that particular mine when we were in it.  We got to see the miracle of America museum where this guy turned his collection of stuff in to a museum. Its pretty much just a big lot with a whole bunch of cool things like amphibious tanks and other strange things. Pioneer Village was another one of those where a really rich guy bought stuff like his one room school house and his old church and had them moved to some of his property.

Dispite the problems we have I have never been on an entirely unfun. When we went to Yellowstone it rained and was cold and everyone got sick. But we also got to swim in the river with hot runoff and we got to go to the hot springs. When we went to Florida, Maddie got a realy bad ear infection in both ears and a realy bad eye infect and we all got sun burned. But we also got to go to the beach and we went to Washington DC and Williamsburg, which was fun.

Many people have said that we have had the worst vacations ever but we still have fun. What makes my family unique is that our family motto is “with time to spare go by air”.