I’m really blown away at the response this blog has gotten since we got back from the trip. After the first article was published earlier this week in The Cary News, I find out that WRAL anchor Bill Leslie has mentioned us in his Carolina Conversations blog. Not only is it a great little post, [...]
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September 3, 2008
We got published!
After a few e-mails from my mom, the Cary News decided to write a short article about this trip. Vickie Jean Dehamer talked to all three of us and used this blog to craft a nice little article that was published on September 3.
I was very impressed and excited to read someone else’s take on [...]
August 27, 2008
Update
Hey guys.
It’s been a long time since I’ve gotten on here, but I promise that I haven’t forgotten about you. Once I got back from the trip it seemed like everything exploded. One week later I was on a plane to San Francisco for a week, then I came back and had to move apartments, [...]
July 11, 2008
July 10: The Last Day
One month to the day after we set out on this cross-country voyage, we spent our last full day of the trip exploring our nation’s capital. I think it’s the right place to end a road trip: the place where this country is run.
Last night we talked about what we wanted to do. We saw [...]
July 10, 2008
July 9: Arlington
Storms all along the east coast. High pressure system sweeping across the east. Or was it low pressure? Or cold front? All those colored lines behind the meteorologist start to confuse me after a while. It looks like some crazy cosmic battle plan. Either way, I’m pretty sure those big green blobs and little clouds [...]
July 8, 2008
July 8: A Forgotten Day in American History?
Today we were in the old nation’s capital. Tomorrow we will be in the new one.
Thankfully, Paw-Paw let me sleep in some this morning since I stayed up until two a.m. last night on a very important phone call. I got up and got ready around 9:30 while Madison and Paw-Paw looked at some of [...]
July 8, 2008
July 7: Gettysburg
One hundred and forty-five years ago this week, Union and Confederate forces essentially accidentally ran into each other right outside of a little town called Gettysburg. It turned out to be one of the most important battles in the War Between the States.
This morning we drove down to the historic battlefield and looked into hiring [...]
July 6, 2008
July 5 + 6: Mmmm…
“Who can take a sunrise
Sprinkle it in dew
Cover it in chocolate
and a miracle or two?
The candyman
The candyman can
The candyman can cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good”
~”Candyman Can” — Sammy Davis Jr., or that dude in “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”
[LOTS of new pictures up!!]
I felt kind of like [...]
July 5, 2008
July 3 + 4: Corky’s Old Time Rock ‘N’ Roll Revival…oh yeah, and fireworks
I decided not to post last night since yesterday was spent just traveling from Chicago to a little city just outside of Dayton, Ohio, called Fairborn. It’s right at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where Paw-Paw used to be stationed and where the National Museum of the Air Force is located. We toured the base [...]
July 3, 2008
July 2: The Windy City
It lived up to its name.
We got to Chicago a little after noon today and checked into our hotel that is right near the lake and across the street from Grant Park. We had heard about some storms coming in Milwaukee, but we hoped the weather would hold off as it has this entire trip. [...]
