Today would not be a good day to visit downtown Chico…as the streets will be crowded with graduates as they show off their town to visiting relatives. The streets will also have a crowd of former students driving rental trucks and towing trailers as they begin their move back to mom and dad’s place; wherever that may be. This exodus will continue for the next week or so, with all sorts of strange and cumbersome cargo appearing in the beds of pickup trucks and on those trailers. And we will wonder if they can make it home without a ticket for littering and generally endangering the motoring public. But in a few weeks the town will return to Summer Normal mode, which is a very slow time of year for the bar owners and a great time of year for those who enjoy the look and feel of Chico as it once was…a long time ago.
And next year…it will be a joyful but sad time for us when the students depart, as our oldest granddaughter will be one of them! We really hope she won’t actually “depart”, but will stick around.
But Summer Normal mode is short and those trucks and trailers will return, with a new crop of students. And we have more grandchildren to make this exodus in the years to come.
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