I’ve been slack at updating this blog but I think I have a pretty good excuse. The family and I recently completed a 20 day east-coast road trip. I could have blogged the trip while I traveled but I was trying to keep computer time to a minimum. First, the vital stats of the trip and then the details.
Stats
- 2,792 miles driven
- 20 days
- 11 cities visited
- 3 nights spent in hotels
- 1 “Exit 0″(yes, zero) passed
Why the Trip?
We’ve been talking for a while about taking a vacation and since I’m currently unemployed, it was pretty easy for me to take three weeks off and do a road trip. As it so happens, we were able to schedule some family events, a board meeting (for me), and a conference (again, for me) while we were traveling.
Fortunately, we did a good bit of planning so our longest stretch of one day driving wasn’t too bad (about 10 hours). Here are the cities we visited:
- Greenville, SC
- Washington, D.C. (we stayed in Onlney, MD)
- Piscataway, NJ
- Millerton, NY
- Norwalk, CT
- Newark NJ (we stayed in West Orange, NJ)
- Philadelphia, PA
- Hershey, PA
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Dayton, OH
- Lexington, KY
Yes, this was a serious east coast road trip. We made sure we got out and saw the sights as well. During the trip, we saw:
- National Zoo
- Smithsonian Air & Space Museum
- Turtleback Zoo
- Liberty Bell
- Independence Hall
- National Constitution Center
- Hershey’s World of Chocolate
- National Air Force Museum
- Kentucky Horse Park
All in all, this was a really fun trip. We got to see a lot of important things and we did a lot of fun things. But we’re all glad to be back and I’m fully recharged and ready to get back to business!
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Incredible …. I’ve always wanted to do this. In college we did a trip out west and stopped in a number of places to camp from arizona back through louisiana … how fun.
It was a ton of fun. The only prohibitive thing now is the cost of gasoline. I haven’t totaled up the bill but I expect we burned through about $500 worth of gas over the trip. Still not bad compared to the price of a single plane ticket to any of these locations.