Personal Narrative: My Road Trip To South Dakota

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It was hard losing a friend but a family member is different. My family decided on going for a road trip to South Dakota to bury my grandmother. I automatically didn’t want to go because I knew that it was going to be like losing my grandmother all over again. Losing my grandmother was a hard time for my family and I. She lived closer to us than all my other family members which allowed us to spend more time with her. Her being gone made a big impact on us and in her will she said she wanted to be cremated and buried on the Black Hills in South Dakota so we made that wish come to reality.
The road trip was going to be a long drive that I was not prepared for. On the way there we had to go through Flagstaff, Colorado, Nebraska, and then we would arrive South Dakota. On the way back we would go through Wyoming and Utah to make it back to Arizona. The trip would take two weeks and my aunt and uncle are going to bring their trailer as of we. I personally don’t do well on long car rides. I get extremely bored and claustrophobic. The first drive to Flagstaff was okay though since it wasn’t that long of a car drive. We parked in a forest next to a cow trail so we got to see cows walk by. Colorado and Nebraska were the longest drives though. I wasn’t feeling well for both of those days so the entire time I was …show more content…
In the late afternoon I found a shop with a Mount Rushmore necklace that was more rectangle than round and it had a picture of the valley with the president’s faces behind it, but it still wasn’t the same and I prefered the one back at the shop on Mount Rushmore. It started getting late and before we went back to the trailer park we instead went back to Mount Rushmore to see the light ceremony they did there. I also decided to buy the necklace there which I did end up using my grandmother’s money for after deciding if I should or
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