Thanks God for the Summertime

There are only about 6 or so weeks left of school and I am looking forward to summer a lot. I have a lot of plans for this summer and I hope that I can accomplish all of them but with work it may be hard. This summer, I will continue my job as a truck driver and helicopter loader for a crop dusting company in Dekalb, Il. The only difference this year is that I will start in the spring, late May, by spraying gypsy moth in their larvae stage in the suburbs. I will also be building a new truck by welding new tanks on and getting all of the pumps hooked up and working. The normal spraying season starts around the fourth of July.

I will also be going on many vacations this summer in between the spraying seasons. Right when school gets out I will go on the usual vacation down to St. Petersburg, FL to my friend’s vacation house. We’ll go there for about a week to get all the stress of school off and get a nice tan to start off the summer. I am also planning a road trip with the same group of friends that I normally go to Florida with. Our plans are to spend a few days driving to California and then staying there a few nights at one of my friend’s cousin’s house in San Francisco. On the long journey to Cali we will stop a few times to camp in tents wherever we want. We’ll shower at truck stops and live on the road. I think this should be really fun since we’ve never done anything like it before.

I am also going to South Dakota with my dad to go prairie dog hunting. We have done this three times already but this year we will be going to the black hills in the southwest corner of South Dakota which is a lot different than the barren northern tip that we are used to seeing. We are also going to a different guide than normal and we will be staying in cabins rather than a motel. The cabins do not have bathrooms but there is a lounge with one and that is where all of our meals will be eaten and hunters can hang out and exchange stories. There is also a campfire every night by the cabins so hunters can have fun. I am looking forward to this summer a lot and I can’t wait for sun, the ocean, bonfires, cooking out, boating, and having a good time.