The details are falling into place, the bags are being packed and the credit card charges are showing up. Shortly we will hit the road for two very busy weeks of travel (Degges style). Doug grew up going to McCall Idaho every year and you can understand why--it is beautiful and we will miss being there with the Morgans this year. I grew up with rare vacations but when they occurred we took some kind of strange, complex and circuitous itinerary. So this year at my request, we are going on that kind of trip. This requires us to prioritize our top sites to see in any one area, we know we can't see it all, but we are going on the road in search of adventure, friendly people, good memories and funky places to stay! Of course the road trip is different today, what with blog postings and GPS and all. But we still plan to sing "99 bottles of beer on the wall", fight over the front seat and get lost at least once. We do hope you will log in from time to time and drop us a note on this site--we will post our postcards here.
Here is the plan:
July 29 Red eye flight to NYC
July 30 sight-seeing in NYC and night at the Larchmont Hotel
July 31 more NYC and then the 5:50 train to Montauk (like in the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) night at the Montauk Motel
Aug 1 ferry to Block Island, to explore Nana's childhood summer home. Night at the Narragansett
Aug 2 Ferry to Providence, pick up car and drive to Boston. Freedom Trail and night in the Hotel 140 (a converted YMCA)
Aug 3 Plymouth Rock then to Salem night at the Hawthorne Hotel
Aug 4 long day driving to Philadelphia
Aug 5 Explore historic Philadelphia drive to Lancaster in the evening-night at Walnut Lawn B&B
Aug 6 Explore Lancaster County and Gettysburg --night at James Getty's Hotel
Aug 7 Drive to Williamsburg night at the Fife and Drum Inn
Aug 8 explore Jamestown and maybe drive to Monticello. End up in Killmarnock, VA with our friends Steve and Lori Richardson for a little rest before we fly home from Richmond on the 11th
