Sunday drives with Dad

I remember Sunday drives

Dad would call

“Everybody in the car!”

and off we would go

down the country roads

looking at the fall colors

or searching for walnut trees

to gather nuts from

We weren’t concerned

with seatbelts back then

Dad would let us sit on his lap

and steer the car.

And we all screamed

“Faster! Faster!”

when going up a hill

and gasp and giggle

when we lost our stomachs 

on the way down the other side

The open window

brings the fall breeze

and memories

of Sunday drives with Dad