Category Archives: Great American Road Trip 2016

The Great American Roadtrip: Day 10 – Indianapolis – “Lay Your Weary Head to Rest” – [07/22/2016]

I like to see the sun come up so radiant and pearly I’d like to see it every day But the DAMN THING COMES TOO EARLY! I have decided that hell is possibly a 4am flight. Mornings and I simply … Continue reading

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The Great American Road Trip: Day 6 – “Things Were Very Historical” – Washington, DC – [07/18/3016]

Dinosaurs and butterflies and ruby slippers! Oh my! The thing about visiting the Smithsonian is to figure out where the heck to start. Having done Air and Space and the National Art Gallery yesterday, we had a plan to do … Continue reading

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The Great American Road Trip: Day 6 – “Listen Children to a Story” – Washington, DC – [07/17/2016]

There are some places in the world that simply have significance, no matter who you are or where you’re from. As I am writing this, scrawling it really in my battered travel notebook that seldom leaves my carry-bag, my back … Continue reading

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The Great American Roadtrip Day 5: Ride On! – King’s Dominion, Virginia – [07/16/2016]

I am a theme park junkie. Everyone who knows me is fully cognoscente of this fact. Amras’ has known this for years; we’ve been trying to line up timelines to get to a theme park together for ages now. But … Continue reading

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The Great American Road Trip: Day 4 – “There’ll be Peace When we Are Done” – Interstate 64, Virginia/Cold Harbour Battlefield – [07/15/2016]

Goodbye Kentucky hello Virginia! After an earlier start than originally intended (which I will admit, did lead to me being a bit of a grumpy bear until I was able to take a nap), we left Kentucky behind and crossed … Continue reading

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The Great American Road Trip: Day 3 – “My Wayward Son…” – Lexington, Kentucky – [07/15/2016]

Renting a car is an insanely complicated experience when no rental car place has any cars available for the first nearly forty-eight hours you are in town and the information from the first botched reservation is still in their system…this … Continue reading

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The Great American Road Trip: Day 1 – “Carry On….”, Terre Haute, Indiana [07/12/2016]

Dedication is getting up at 4am to get on a plane…when one is not working (the ultimate example of this is my own family, who regularly drag themselves out of bed and away from work on a regular basis to … Continue reading

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