Narrative Essay On Road Trip

Last year during our spring break in high school me and a group of friends decided that we go on a road trip. At first we didn’t know where we were going to go but finally decided on going to Virginia Beach. We planned on staying for 5 days and then drove back up to New York. During this trip we had a lot of interesting things happen, especially to the car. So as I had said before me and a few friends planned on going on a road trip during one of our week long breaks. We had been planning on doing something like this for a while and didn’t know where we were going to go or what we were going to do. Originally we were planning on going for a nine or ten day trip where we would have driven to a few different places where we wanted to go. During …show more content…
We ended up taking my friend Nicks old Buick La Saber, it was on old beat up four door car but, we decided that it was probably the best choice since my car was a two door car and it was way too small for four people on that long of a road trip. We quickly learned that taking the Buick was a huge mistake. As we were driving the car would get close to overheating and we had to stop several times to let the engine cool down. Also as we were driving the power steering would slowly lessen. This was because there was a leak in his power steering lines. So we would have to stop every once in a while to put more of the power steering fluid in the car. But surprisingly we made it to …show more content…
We then spent the rest of the day and night on the beach and the boardwalk. The weather was perfect and the beach was awesome. When you first get there, there is the board walk which has a bunch of different restaurants and stores. When you pass that you get to a bunch of hotels which are directly in front of the beach. We then went back to the hotel and planned on what to do the next day. We decided we would drive around and see what else there was to do around that area. We went to a few different places, for example we checked out the mall and went to this place called Adventure Park where we got go on a zip line. But after that we pretty much just stuck with going to the beach for the next couple of days. When we were done we got our stuff together and started to drive up to Washington DC. During this we had a few problems with the car including almost running out of power steering fluid. So we had to make a quick stop at the nearest auto parts store to get