How do you describe the wonderful time a family can have on a 5283 mile trip “out East”?!
My girls have done a much better job keeping up–both on their blog as well as in their visual journals! I wish I could have worked on mine in the van as we were going, but that never seemed to work out! Guess they have had more experience working in tight quarters than me! 
It was definitely worth all the packing and planning and persevering to make it happen!
I really have to give the girls a LOT of credit—I became extremely ill the Saturday before we left. In fact, even until Thursday I was beginning to wonder if we were going to have to postpone the trip! But I started feeling better and well enough to get my stuff washed and packed–nothing like waiting until the 11th hour!!!!
We knew it was an ambitious trip and that we couldn’t “see it all” no matter how much we wanted to! It was great, though, to do what we could and at least hit the highlights. And learning continued to take place–the girls would look things up on the internet when we got to a hotel or McDonald’s (for free WiFi!). Road Scholars, indeed! 
We were gone 19 1/2 days. We only stayed at hotels 7 of those 19 nights! The rest we stayed at the homes of wonderful family and friends, and even had a few quick visits with family and friends sprinkled in between those! Sometimes it made it hard to leave in the mornings, though, because we enjoyed the fellowship so much! And a few times, it meant we bumped a few things off “the list” to be able to enjoy that fellowship!
Was it worth it all?!
A resounding YES!!!!
