The Guilt Made Me Do It

Well, a good pal of mine last night asked when I thought I'd get around to updating ye olde blog. Good point, D!

It's been a while because I've been on the road. 3,000 miles on the road, to be exact. My ports of call in the last two weeks have included Virginia, DC, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. Yep, when gas is sky-high, I've been pursuing the great American passtime of summer driving trips. I will tell you that the cheapest gas is in Indiana (on the East Coast it's New Jersey) and the most expensive is New York and near Chicago.

There's so much to tell from the trips that it's mindblowing and I really should just upload the pictures. (Tonight, she thought, with great hope but little confidence she would actually do it.) Some highlights:

a double rainbow in Savanna, Illinois
a million and one Harley-Davidson outlets - those guys have the Mid-West blanketed
camels in Indiana
gorgeous cloud formations in upstate NY
delicious brats in Wisconsin
enormous sand dunes in northern Indiana
the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio
pulled pork in Fort Wayne, Indiana
a family cemetary cut out of a corn field in Kent, Illinois
good friends and family all over the place

In the coming weeks, I'll be headed to Toronto and the beach in Delaware and possibly California. Lots of traveling for this little home-loving girl. It's good for me and I'm loving it, but the kitty cat is sad, my tomatoes are going uneaten and the house isn't exactly clean. But it makes for good stories and if there's one thing I believe, life is about gathering good stories.