What Are You Doing For Father's Day???

[teigyr]

It sounds quirky but I believe we're going to go where my father grew up. My father is difficult to shop for and he doesn't really want things. My father isn't especially emotional either. My father was very sick a couple of years ago and he really started thinking about where he grew up, which is across the country. We met someone FROM his hometown while we were in Boston when he was recovering from his illness and she sent him things that he could never find on the West Coast. (She was SO wonderful to do this for two strangers!)

While my parents have flight benefits and can travel at very very very low cost (and they can afford it anyway), my father still has a few health problems and they aren't inclined to travel. DH and I are going to Boston next week and while we are there, we are going to rent a car to go to my father's home town. We had hoped to do it on Fathers Day itself but we'll be meeting a friend (the one who sent him the things from his home town) on that day so we'll go on Saturday instead. I hope to take pictures of things he might remember and maybe I'll find something from "back in the day". If I can convince my mother to consider espionage, I'd love to find out where he used to live (the specific house) and other small details

It's a small thing but both DH and I would like to see his heritage and he is always so interested in hearing about whenever we go back east.