LETTER

D ear Editors: I just had to let you know how much I enjoyed reading about Michael King’s trip West (DreamSeeker Magazine, Autumn 2003)! In fact, it reinforced my travel dreams to go basically the same route—some day.

Michael, your Honda is one year younger than my trusted Honda Civic. She is nearly 104,000 miles old and has acquired a rebuilt distributor in recent weeks. So I’m hoping she’ll be as strong and loyal as her Sister King Honda, and take me where I want to go for a few more years.

One of my after-retirement trips is going to be to southern California and up the Pacific Coast to Portland, Snoqualmie, Seattle, and Beyond. I will use my dog-eared MennoniteYourWay Directory all the way and back and will have the time of my life. I will not be as brave as a friend of mine who is now tenting her way to and from Seattle. I don’t deal well with whining mosquitoes zinging at me as I cower against the canvas or things that go bump in the night when I’m in a tent.

Thanks again for the wonderful article. I do hope Jack Kerouac shared it with Jesus Christ—or vice versa. I’ll bet they had a laugh or two as they remembered the trip.

Keep that little magazine coming!
—Audrey A. Metz