Final Travel Essay Proposal - Becc

For my final travel essay, I would like to expand on my short write, "Hamilton." I would like to write about the entire trip, my dad and I as the main characters. I would touch on each of the following events: dinner at a hole-in-the-wall Italian restaurant in Albany; Hamilton; the B&B in Ithaca; my dad getting food poisoning; Taughannock Falls; and our final stop at Cornell. At different points in my life I've viewed this trip either as a failure or as a success, but I don't want to view it as either/or anymore.  Finally writing it as a cohesive essay, I think it's important to touch on both the disappointing/upsetting moments and on the uplifting ones. The theme is really going to be about my dad and I's relationship at that point in time, as when we went on the trip we weren't really getting along very well. I want my readers to take away that our relationship isn't about always agreeing, but that we can still have little moments of insight into why we're so different, which can help us appreciate each other. On our trip, our differences and similarities are highlighted more than in day to day life, simply because we were forced to spend so much time together.