The Big Tree
"Wherever you go, there you are." from the movie The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension I am driving my father to visit an old military friend a few cities away. On our way there he decides he wants to visit relatives who live somewhere in between, so I make a little detour to accommodate him. It's no big deal. I know how to get there and I know the area. In fact, we’re almost there. "Are you lost?" he asks me. I continue to drive down the street I'm on. I say nothing. Between you and me, I'm on the right street. Out of the corner of my eye I see him looking out up and down the street. Side to side. His head on a swivel. "I think you're lost," he tells me, his eyes bugging out. "I don't recognize anything." One funny thing about my father that I've noticed the few times we've traveled together is his eyes tend to bug out when he thinks I'm lost. I'm not lost. And I've got my GPS t...