The Beast.
That was the honorific bestowed by my children on the ancient gray Suburban my wife and I had purchased from a friend. The kids showed a real talent for nomenclature that day.
The Beast And I: Memories of a Vacation
The Beast offered all the comforts of a World War I tank, but we could pack lots of books into its belly.
Some of the best family travel memories are from road trips. (Ahmet Sali on Unsplash
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Jeff Minick
Author
Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
