2792 Miles, 20 Days, 11 Cities

June 26th, 2007 • Travels

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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