On the Road - Exploring America

Over the past six months I have been keeping it low key - roadtripping it around north america! In December Sarah and I drove to Quebec city, then slowly worked our way back through Montreal and Ottawa. In January we drove down to Boston for a weekend, with Zach and Jeff. Finally in April we aimed for Florida, exploring New York, Pennsylvania, Virgina, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and Michigan. I just recently returned from Cuba as well where I spent a week on the beach with Joanne.

In Quebec, sarah's motto was "whats the worst that could happen"... somehow this led to a lot of random adventures for which I could find no excuse. From sneaking into hotels for the rooftop views and hot tubs, truly getting our moneys worth from every hostel we stayed in (as well as the hotels we didn't stay in), going to the Lets Rock 70s revival concert, frolicking in the snow, or playing strip poker. But really, we spent days walking through the snow exploring each city. We saw the sights, the biodome, art galleries, and restaurants.

In Boston Jeff and Zach made all the difference - we saw none of the sites but all of Boston! In order to save money we spent Friday night at the frat house at North Eastern, and although we saw Harvard on Saturday we spend the next night in a frat house at MIT. A long drive for two days in the city was still very worth it!

After exams we had five days, our goal to spend an afternoon at the beach, preferably in Florida. First night we were still only in Pennsylvania but the next day we made it through the Virginia's and Carolinas so the next day we started off early exploring Charleston, still had the afternoon in Savannah and made it to Florida by nightfall. We actually spent two nights in Florida - one camping on the Atlantic coast between sand dunes and the next camping in a rose garden on the gulf. We'd already seen so much mroe than we expected - dolphins, historic cities, plantations, Daytona, nascar, half a dozen beaches and lighthouses, and many a small American town. We spent the next few days in Alabama and Tennessee. When we found out that our fifth day was the opening of the Kentucky Derby Festival - with Thunder over Louisville, the biggest fireworks show in North America - we had to stay!! So we had an entire afternoon in Nashville, and a morning at the Cincinnati flower festival in Ohio. Louisville is absolutely amazing! Old houses, huge flowering trees, the friendliest of people, and lots of Derby festival buzz. The energy and the fireworks made for a night to remember, helped by the long drive home afterwards that lasted til 9 the next morning!

Up next - the west coast?