English 8 #4: The Farthest I’ve Been From Home

One fact you may not know about me is that I have never actually left the state of Indiana. We live in Indianapolis, right smack in the center of the state, also known as the Crossroads of America. Now, here’s the funny thing. Although we have an international airport and four interstates in our city alone, I have never actually crossed the border of the state.

We have relatives that we visit so I can say for sure that that is farthest away I’ve been, generally speaking. But I want to get more specific. Interstate 69 runs really close to Huntington on its way from Indianapolis to Fort Wayne. I am pretty sure (not certain, but pretty sure) that the farthest I’ve been from home was when we took a detour from visiting our relatives to stop at a Dairy Queen one exit farther north on Interstate 69. So that means, theoretically, that that is the farthest away I’ve been from home. That may not be one hundred percent accurate, as we drive around in that area a lot, but it is pretty close.

In conclusion, I find it really interesting that I’ve never left the Hoosier state. And I haven’t even really been to many places inside Indiana, for example, Evansville or Fort Wayne. The farthest I’ve been from home was probably under 100 miles away. I would really like to travel farther, not to see the world or anything like that, but just to see a smidgen more of it.

This was an essay timed for 30 minutes, and I wrote it in 12! The full recording is posted above.