礼物与选择

As a kid, I spent my summers with my grandparents on the ranchnoun.大农场 in Texas. I helped fixverb.使固定 windmillsnoun.风车, vaccinatenoun.被接种牛痘者 cattlenoun.牛, and do other choresnoun.杂务. We also watched soap operas every afternoon, especially days of our lives. My grandparents belonged to a caravannoun.（可供居住的）拖车 club, a group of Airstream trailernoun.追踪者 owners who traveled together around the US and Canada. And every few summers, we'd join the caravannoun.（可供居住的）拖车. We'd hitchverb.搭便车 up the Airstream to my grandfather's car, and off we'd go. In a line with 300 other Airstream adventurersnoun.冒险者, I loved and worshipedverb.崇拜 my grandparents. And I really looked forward to these trips.