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A Back Seat With a View

Time to load up the family Dodge and hit the open road. Our backs to California, the wheels rolling east towards the deep south. Arriving by plane wasn’t an option, the car was our only transportation mode. My older brother pulls my hair and a yelp escapes my thin mouth. Our backs to California, the wheels rolling east towards the deep south. Country greats like Strait, McEntire, and Alabama blaring through the radio. My older brother pulls my hair and a yelp escapes my thin mouth. Mom and Dad won’t get a break and my car sickness is touch-and-go. Country greats like Strait, McEntire, and Alabama blaring through the radio. Travel bingo and the license plate game forever etched in my brain. Mom and Dad won’t get a break and my car sickness is touch-and-go. Three days to get there and three days back without rain. Travel bingo and the license plate game forever etched in my brain. Big rigs honking as my eager arm pumped up and down from the back seat. Three days to get there and three days back without rain. Eating piles of junk food on the road was always a real treat. Travel bingo and the license plate game forever etched in my brain. Arriving by plane wasn’t an option, the car was our only transportation mode. Three days to get there and three days back without rain. Time to load up the family Dodge and hit the open road. Contest: A RHYMING PANTOUM OF FIVE STANZAS (6th place) Sponsored by: L Milton Hankins Date of poem: May 12, 2022

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Date: 6/6/2022 7:48:00 AM
Congratulations on your win in the contest! A wonderful write for a memorable trip! :)Paulette
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Courtney Hubbert
Date: 6/7/2022 6:49:00 AM
Thank you kindly Miss Paulette for your wonderful comment.
Date: 6/4/2022 8:31:00 AM
Well written and congratulations on your entry, Courtney. You mention Cajun country. Are you in the Lafayette area?
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Courtney Hubbert
Date: 6/4/2022 5:09:00 PM
I live in Livingston Parish which is not in Cajun country but my mom is from Iberia Parish which is. That is where we took some of our road trips when I was growing up.
Date: 6/4/2022 8:03:00 AM
Courtney, you kept drawing me in and feeling like I went along on your vacation in your "family Dodge." Congratulations!
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Courtney Hubbert
Date: 6/4/2022 5:06:00 PM
That is such a lovely comment. Thank you for that and thank you for sponsoring this contest.
Date: 5/15/2022 3:53:00 AM
Family vacations as a kid are always fond memories, mine are memories of trips to New Orleans. I enjoyed reading your trip back in time, Courtney, good luck in the contest. John
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Courtney Hubbert
Date: 5/15/2022 1:29:00 PM
Thank you so much for your kind words John. I also travelled to Louisiana as a child (to Cajun country) and now, over 25 years later, I live here.

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