The move to Florida, 1999, by Elvin Corey

From MemoryArchive

Who: Elvin Corey Jr.
What: The move to Florida
When: March 1999
Where: West Palm Beach

When I first moved to Florida it was very late at night. My older brother, my mother, my younger sister, and I took the Greyhound bus to West Palm Beach from Atlanta, Georgia. The trip for the most part is some-what a bore because of how long ago it was. I remember that the trip seemed to take forever! There werer many bodies of water we passed by also. It was about 12:00am when our journey began and at the time I was nine-years old so I slept for most of the trip. Once we made it to Florida the bus stopped several times. My mother was not mentally on the bus due to the circumstances her children and herself were in. My brother,my sister and I played games involving the cars that passed us by. Once in Tallahassee I remember we stopped at a McDonalds. They had just come out with the McFlury. We got one to share among the three kids and it was very good. Then from there it took us about ten more hours till we reached West palm Beach where i great time of hardship reached our family. But, thats another story...