Our Journey

Well my friends, our trek across this great nation has been tiring, interesting, fun, boring beautiful and uneventful.

Day 1

We traveled 14 hours the first day. The goal was to do 13, but when we stopped at our intended destination, Kearny NE, we found that for some reason all the teachers were having a conference in this town that barely made the map. As we went to the next town, there was still no rooms to stay in. So we continued onward. (I would tell you about Utah and Wyoming, but I think you know what we saw.)

The coolest thing that we saw was an incredible lightning storm. It lasted for 3 hours and kept us very alert. Although it was dark and the clouds blocked out all light, every other second the sky was as bright as day as lightning surged through the skyline.

The weather was great except for the occasional rain. In Nebraska temperatures got very low; I estimate around 50.

If you want to see pictures of our first day's trip go to google and search for any of these words: corn, cornfields, grass, plains, hills, cows, highway and cars.

Day 2

Once again, if you want to look at pictures, see Day 1.

We traveled 14 hours once again. Iowa was boring, but Illinois got a little more interesting. The flat plains turned into rolling hills. We started to see more trees. Alison was asleep for a good part of this leg. She missed some very extravagant red barns. The weather was quite pleasant.

As we passed Chicago we hit our first bit of traffic. The Toll road just south of Chicago was under construction. We seemed to bring our 75 mph gallop to a 45 mph crawl. It only lasted for about 30 minutes though.

When we left Illinois it was almost dark. Indiana had little to see. More trees and a lot more corn. I think that we saw more corn in Indiana then we did in Nebraska. Then we made it to Ohio. Eastern Ohio and Indiana were very boring. We stopped in Toledo. We looked for Clinger (M*A*S*H) but couldn't find him.

Day 3

We had been traveling on the Ohio turnpike through Ohio. When we left this toll road it made about a $12 dent in our wallet. Oh well.

We were soon surprised by Eastern Ohio. Everything became greener and the Hills began to grow. As we rolled into Pennsylvania, the trees and hills continued to become more magnificent. It just kept getting greener and greener! Alison said that it reminded her of home. The locals call that area the Pennsylvania Mountains, but they were more like giant hills.

Leaving the Pennsylvania Turnpike cost us $19. It was crazy. We made it to our hotel and went to sleep.