Road Trip Review

Road Trip from October 19 to October 29.

More pictures can be found here

October 19: Trip began around 9:00pm, drove straight to Toledo, Ohio. At the border crossing which happened around midnight, the customs guy actually took a look into the cooler, but otherwise didn't bother us.

October 20: Mostly a driving day. They have Tim Horton's in Toledo, Ohio! Felt at home, except that our medium size drinks, were their small, and our large, their medium, and so on. Drove all the way to Knoxville, TN this day stopping at the US Air Force Museum in Dayton Ohio. Ate at P. F. Chang's.

October 21: Drove the tail of the dragon. Twice. And then David drove it, and then route 28, and then the blue ridge parkway scenic route up to the 6000+ ft high peak. The sun set there and we realized we were pretty far from our booked hotel on the Florida/Georgia Border. Solution: Speeding like crazy. I think I drove almost to Georgia, averaging 140 km/h. And while these were now interstate highways, they still wove through some fairly significant hills and mountains.

October 22: Drove from Georgia to Titusville, just outside the Kennedy Space Center. Went into the Kennedy Visitor Center, an almost theme-park sized facility.

October 23: Saw the shuttle launch in the morning, drove into Disneylando (disney + orlando). Got lost in disneylando (3 or 4 times I think). Walked around downtown disney, then went to eat at P F Chang's.

October 24: Went back to Kennedy Space Center to do the tour which we hadn't had time to do before. Drove up to St. Augustine.

October 25: Had breakfast/lunch at the Conch house, then rented a boat, then got my car stuck on the beach.

October 26: Went swimming in the Atlantic Ocean in the morning, then left St. Augustine and drove 1100 km to Richmond Va. Speeding 20 miles an hour over the limit in Virginia is actually a crime, which they can apparently drag you off to jail for or at least a fine of over $2000 and as I'd rather gotten used to speeding over 20 miles an hour, it really sucked.

October 27: Drove into Washington and walked the national mall. White House, Capitol, Memorials and so on. Drove back into Virginia to get a hotel near Dulles International Airport. Ate at PF Chang's.

October 28: Went to the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum at Dulles International Airport. Drove to Pittsburgh.

October 29: Drove to Buffalo. Just before crossing from Pennsylvania into New York, stopped to get Fireworks, which I had to sign a release form for. Had to show ID just to get into the building. Anyway then shopped for clothing at the Walden Galleria, then drove home to Toronto. Waved through customs, wait was only 10-15 minutes.