Seeing America the Beautiful

Road Trip to the Heartland

​Last Saturday we completed a 30-day “road trip” to see more of America. During our trip we drove 9,376 miles (an average of 312.5 miles per day) and visited 21 States, saw all 5 of the Great Lakes and were fortunate to see friends, family and all sorts of interesting places. Don’t let the MSM - and their nightly disaster telecasts fool you - America is beautiful, clean, peaceful and filled with nice people and wonderful sights.
 
Here’s a high level map of the route that we planned to drive when we started the trip. During the actual trip we made some “on the fly” modifications to add or delete planned sights due to timing and a couple of closures - but nothing major. The only real omission was a very short swing through Canada (Manitoba and Saskatchewan) where it borders North Dakota due to the border closure being extended past 21 July. 

​The States that we visited during our trip were:

​1) Massachusetts
2) New York
3) Pennsylvania
4) Ohio
5) Indiana
6) Michigan
7) Wisconsin
8) Illinois
9) Iowa
10) Minnesota
11) North Dakota

​12) South Dakota
13) Missouri
14) Kansas
15) Oklahoma
16) Arkansas
17) Kentucky
18) West Virginia
19) Virginia
20) Maryland
21) Connecticut

​Needless to say, it was a great trip and we had a wonderful time. During the final miles, as we approached our home, my daughter asked if we could just make a pit stop at home and then hit the road again. What a great idea!
 
Now that we’ve unpacked the car, sorted the mail, washed out clothes, mowed the yard, and downloaded the 10,000+ photos that we collectively took during the trip – I plan to post some of the photos of our adventures and write a few blogs highlighting the special sights that we saw. I’m sure that choosing which places to blog about will be the hard part.