poltcomic.blogg.se - Gramps walk two moons

Most everyone calls Salamanca "Sal" for short. Her mother loved trees so much that she wanted the word "tree" to be part of her daughter's name.

Our narrator tells us that her name is Salamanca Tree Hiddle (finally, a name!).

She hates cars and buses, so she prayed to the trees to keep her safe.

When they started the road trip, our girl was totally terrified that they were going to get into an accident.

Turns out our narrator believed that she needed to get to Lewiston in time for her mother's birthday (in seven days).

They felt like they needed to hurry to get to Lewiston.

Once they decided to go on this trip, it felt like they were racing toward a finish line or something.Our narrator tells us that her dad had yet another reason to be happy she was tagging along for the ride: her Gram and Gramps had a knack for getting into trouble.He had already seen Momma, and he had not taken me. Dad wanted to be alone with the red-headed Margaret Cadaver. Gram and Gramps knew that I wanted to see Momma, but that I was afraid to. Gram and Gramps wanted to see Momma, who was resting peacefully in Lewiston, Idaho. But our narrator knew the "real reasons" why everyone wanted this road trip to happen:.If that sounds like a silly reason to you, well, you're not wrong. Her dad, on the other hand, was glad that our girl was going, because her grandfather has a hard time reading maps. She was totally not excited to go on this road trip, but she had to do it.They would drive 2,000 miles west to Lewiston, Idaho. From Euclid they decided to take their favorite (and only) grandchild on a road trip.It turns out that it was only after our narrator had tons of adventures with Phoebe that Gram and Gramps drove up to Euclid from Bybanks to see their granddaughter.

In this chapter, we learn more about how our narrator ended up on a road trip with her grandparents, Gram and Gramps.