Okay folks, here's a condensed version of the road trip. It was 3200 amazing miles. I went from Washington to Idaho to Montana to North Dakota to Minnesota to Wisconsin to Iowa to Illinois to Indiana to Ohio to Pennsylvania to New York to Massachusetts. Apparently, we live in a REALLY big country. Here's some highlights of the things I saw. I didn't include any photos of Washington, Idaho, or Montana because in the first two, I've taken lots of photos and have talked about them lots in the past. In the third, it's too painful of a reminder that I don't live in Montana yet. But I will, I will! Here's me outside North Dakota. Turns out, this is home of the famous song "Home on the Range".
Where not only the deer and the antelope play, but also apparently giant rat alligators. Ratalligators? Ratocodiles? What the? No wonder Teddy Roosevelt (best prez ever!) was so ready to shoot big things in Africa (not the best practice). He'd been fighting off these at his ranch!
And those of you who scoff at North Dakota will have to deal with me. Look at how beautiful this is. It's Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Also in North Dakota is a place called Jamestown that has albino bison and apparently four types of meat bbqs. Is one type albino bison and another flavor regular type. Mmmmm . . . bison. Not as gamey as buffalo.
In Minnesota, it rains. Whitney said, "Oh my gosh, look at those clouds, that looks really bad" (pointing to an immense thick bank of black fog). And I said, "Oh Whitney, I don't think it looks like much at all. It's just cloudy. Hello!" Well, it turns out that it can rain so much that you have to stare the white line in the right lane to stay going straight. Also in Minnesota, since the rain might keep people inside for a while, there's time to collect twine.
While outside Minneapolis, and boy I wish I had a picture, we hit construction. Which was hot and tarry but okay since the construction men in MN do not wear shirts at all. Seriously, it was hilarious. Really boys, it's sooooo hot that you must just sport a small orange mesh vest? I wish I had had my camera out. But maybe this distracted driving is what led to me hitting something on the road and it ripping up the undercarriage, i.e., my rear right brakes that had to get fixed in Madison, WI for a whole day. This turned out to be fantastic because we stayed across the street from this beauty:
Yup, the Wisconsin State Capitol. And I also ran into the most delish thing I've ever tasted: beer battered cheese curds. No wonder everyone in Seattle is railyard skin, they don't have access to food like this.
And, we had enough time to check out PBS which was showing a special on "Star Wars in Concert". Looking up online, it turns out that it was in Moline, IL the NEXT day. So of course we backtracked west to make sure we saw Anthony Daniels (C3PO) narrating, the original Han Solo in carbonite prop, and listen to all the music with a full orchestra, choir, and big LED screens. Here's me channeling my force.
And here's me admiring Harrison Ford circa 1983.
Okay, I'm just going to skip over the next bit because it turns out, the northern halves of Indiana and Ohio are horrible. I have a fondness for Ohio because of a college friend is from there, but it can't be the freeway across the top could it? Here's what I found when I got to Massachusetts: Rain! Lots of it! Awwwwwww, a welcome just for me!
And all of the cosmos' thanks go to Whits for sitting shotgun in an old pickup truck with no air conditioning for 3200 miles. SAINT!
Okay folks, here's a condensed version of the road trip. It was 3200 amazing miles. I went from Washington to Idaho to Montana to North Dakota to Minnesota to Wisconsin to Iowa to Illinois to Indiana to Ohio to Pennsylvania to New York to Massachusetts. Apparently, we live in a REALLY big country. Here's some highlights of the things I saw. I didn't include any photos of Washington, Idaho, or Montana because in the first two, I've taken lots of photos and have talked about them lots in the past. In the third, it's too painful of a reminder that I don't live in Montana yet. But I will, I will! Here's me outside North Dakota. Turns out, this is home of the famous song "Home on the Range".
Where not only the deer and the antelope play, but also apparently giant rat alligators. Ratalligators? Ratocodiles? What the? No wonder Teddy Roosevelt (best prez ever!) was so ready to shoot big things in Africa (not the best practice). He'd been fighting off these at his ranch! 
And those of you who scoff at North Dakota will have to deal with me. Look at how beautiful this is. It's Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Also in North Dakota is a place called Jamestown that has albino bison and apparently four types of meat bbqs. Is one type albino bison and another flavor regular type. Mmmmm . . . bison. Not as gamey as buffalo.
In Minnesota, it rains. Whitney said, "Oh my gosh, look at those clouds, that looks really bad" (pointing to an immense thick bank of black fog). And I said, "Oh Whitney, I don't think it looks like much at all. It's just cloudy. Hello!" Well, it turns out that it can rain so much that you have to stare the white line in the right lane to stay going straight. Also in Minnesota, since the rain might keep people inside for a while, there's time to collect twine.
While outside Minneapolis, and boy I wish I had a picture, we hit construction. Which was hot and tarry but okay since the construction men in MN do not wear shirts at all. Seriously, it was hilarious. Really boys, it's sooooo hot that you must just sport a small orange mesh vest? I wish I had had my camera out. But maybe this distracted driving is what led to me hitting something on the road and it ripping up the undercarriage, i.e., my rear right brakes that had to get fixed in Madison, WI for a whole day. This turned out to be fantastic because we stayed across the street from this beauty:
Yup, the Wisconsin State Capitol. And I also ran into the most delish thing I've ever tasted: beer battered cheese curds. No wonder everyone in Seattle is railyard skin, they don't have access to food like this.
And, we had enough time to check out PBS which was showing a special on "Star Wars in Concert". Looking up online, it turns out that it was in Moline, IL the NEXT day. So of course we backtracked west to make sure we saw Anthony Daniels (C3PO) narrating, the original Han Solo in carbonite prop, and listen to all the music with a full orchestra, choir, and big LED screens. Here's me channeling my force.
And here's me admiring Harrison Ford circa 1983.
Okay, I'm just going to skip over the next bit because it turns out, the northern halves of Indiana and Ohio are horrible. I have a fondness for Ohio because of a college friend is from there, but it can't be the freeway across the top could it? Here's what I found when I got to Massachusetts: Rain! Lots of it! Awwwwwww, a welcome just for me!
And all of the cosmos' thanks go to Whits for sitting shotgun in an old pickup truck with no air conditioning for 3200 miles. SAINT!
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