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Lessons Learned:  Toll booths

Lessons Learned: Toll booths

June 7, 2010 No Comments

When you rent a car, ask the rental folks how the toll system works.  Even more importantly, be sure that the system they are giving you works. If you don’t know how the toll system works, stop at the ticket booth.  Don’t assume that because you have one of those ez-pass things in your glove […]

Ohio

Ohio

June 6, 2010 2 Comments

Time:  8:18pm Mileage:  950.5 Driver:  Laura Song:   Rainbow Tour (Evita Soundtrack) Nicest toll taker we’ve run into (well not literally – we stopped just short) – at least he didn’t yell at us.  That’s about all we know of Ohio at the moment.  Trying to get to the Cleveland area to find a motel and something to […]

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

June 6, 2010 No Comments

Time:  5:17pm Mileage:  760.5 Driver:  Colleen Song:   Yep .. it’s still t Sister Shout (Boswell Sisters) Only one more state today!  We’re on the home stretch .. just another 250 miles to Cleveland ..

West Virginia

West Virginia

June 6, 2010 No Comments

Time:  5:15 pm Mileage:  758.1 Driver:  Colleen Song:   Shout Sister Shout (Boswell Sisters) And, after 30 more seconds on the edge of West Virginia, we turn around and head for …

If it’s good enough for an astronaut …

If it’s good enough for an astronaut …

June 6, 2010 5 Comments

… it might have to be good enough for me!

Starbucks .. o Starbucks ..

Starbucks .. o Starbucks ..

June 6, 2010 2 Comments

… wherefore art thou, Starbucks?

Virginia

Virginia

June 6, 2010 No Comments

Time:  4:09pm Mileage:  652.5 Driver:  Colleen Song:   The sound of the GPS losing its satellite feed.  Again. Garmin .. not our favorite companion today.  Either she’s tired and is going on strike hoping we’ll give up, or she’s wanted in DC and is trying to keep  a low profile.   The radar detector – illegal in […]

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

June 6, 2010 No Comments

Time:  2:21 pm Mileage:  644.4 Driver:  Colleen Song:   Sister Maureen on speaker phone We saw a few of the more interesting parts of DC.  The parts Rick Steves doesn’t cover in his books.

Weather Update

Weather Update

June 6, 2010 No Comments

It’s raining in Washington DC.  Black clouds, wind & rain …

The Thing About Delaware …

The Thing About Delaware …

June 6, 2010 1 Comment

According to Wikipedia – the source of all knowledge – Delaware has no national parks, no national seaside, no national monuments, no national battlefields and no national memorials.  And no baseball team.

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California … The Finish Line!

Final time:  4:57pm (Mountain Time) Final Mileage:  7,058.6 Driver:  Colleen Song:  Mama, You Got A Daughter (John Lee Hooker)...

Nevada

Time:  4:42pm (Mountain Time) Mileage:  7,041.2 Driver:  Colleen Song:  Sunshine Day (Brady Bunch) A quick trip by Laughlin and...

Arizona

Time:  10:25am Mileage:  6,634.7 Driver:  Colleen Song:  Expressway to your Heart (Soul  Survivors) There is scenery everwhere!  The rain...

And now for a brief intermission …

FOUR CORNERS:  NEW MEXICO, UTAH, COLORADO & ARIZONA But it’s Navajo Nation territory. And it’s under construction … the...

New Mexico

Time:  9:28am Mileage:  6,630.7 Driver:  Colleen Song:  Bluer Than Blue (Michael Johnson) New Mexico, we hardly knew ya …....

Colorado

Time:  8:54am Mileage:  6,591.9 Driver:  Colleen Song:  Wild String (Moody Blues) Rain, rain, go away … some pretty good...

And so the beginning of the end…

Our last day.  We’re heading south through Utah.  Roughly 700 miles left.  We’ve completed our national tour of McDonalds,...

Utah

Time: 7:02 pm Mileage: 6,123.7 Driver: Colleen Song: Bolero (Paradise Road Soundtrack) So far, no road construction. This would...

Cowboy Sighting

Texas – Nothing. Oklahoma – Nothing. Montana – Nothing. Wyoming – Nothing. But Idaho has cowboys. Real live horse-riding,...

Says it all …