Geo: 42.5624, -83.1545Here it is in numbers. Pretty neat to look at. 16 days2650 miles13 statesApproximately 30 different cities, towns, Harbors and ports. 25 or more different attractions (historic, natural or amusement) 30 plus different restaurants. 170 gallons of gas. 11 different beds.9 hotels1 cottage1 house7 movies15 bodies of water (including lakes, rivers, bays, sounds, oceans)84 bottles of water6 strange aliens4 pizzas175 toot storms (in the vehicles, hotel rooms and other inclosed areas)30 pairs of dirty underwear150 questions 50 of the dumbest questions ever asked1 flat tire2 trains7 subways3 taxis3 boats2 Ninjas3 sandy beaches150 baby cows1 red plankton invasion ocean swim (yuk)4 stinky bathing suits20 glasses wine or other sanity beverages6 pools4 accents (Canadian, Boston, New York, New Jersey)6 capitals4 lobsters6 Marriotts1 crap... read more

Geo: 40.4384, -79.9976Weather 73 cloudyWe are on our way home. We have spent the last couple of days of our trip with some peeps we love, the Ghilanis. Nice place to relax, play and laugh. I love listening to Pat, Barb and Paul talk. They crack me up. We spent two nights there. A couple of days ago, we went to Hershey. PA. It was a smart move to go early on Friday instead of Thursday, our first plan. We got there around 9:30 AM. Not too crowded. We saw the 4D movie first. It was cute. The Hershey kiss in the movie actually communicates with the audience including wishing me a Happy Birthday. She asked where I was in the audience and wouldn't continue until I acknowledged her. Pretty cute. Obviously someone is able to ... read more

Geo: 39.2926, -76.7421Weather 75 and sunny Not too thrilled with Philly. I don't know if we just went a few blocks the wrong way or what but quite frankly, it's not my fave. We stayed in a very nice hotel and it has some nice sites but it's not comfortable walking around to far in different directions. Lots of homeless and riff-raff. Our waiter told us there are pockets of not too safe. It was more of a drive-by for us before someone did a drive-by to us. Exaggerating. By suggestion from some girls in New York, we went to Reading Terminal Market for breakfast. Really cool market. paul and i love Pike Street Market in Seattle. its kind of like that. we had crepes (dessert) for breakfast. We bought some fruit for the road and ... read more

Geo: 40.7528, -73.9853Weather 81 sunny, warm and breezy Somehow we figured out how to hop a train from Stamford, CT to New York City. It took a couple of circles around the station to figure out where to go. Bought our tickets and hopped on the train. Pretty easy. It dropped us at Grand Central Station which was a few of blocks from our hotel. We are staying at the Courtyard Marriott Manhattan. I really like Marriott. They are clean and comfortable. We happen to be Gold members because Paul racked up points during his travels with Ernst and Young and now I keep up the levels by spending money on our Marriott Visa. Must go shopping. Gold gives us concierge breakfast, happy hours and today it got us in our room earlier than we were ... read more

Geo: 42.3585, -71.0596Weather 100% rain but warm Day started out rainy and continued to be rainy all day. It was warm though. So we put on our rain coats and enjoyed Bahston like all the other Bahstonians. Worked out great because we still had our second day on trolleys. Kept us dry and took us all over Boston. We had some interesting Trolley drivers today. One of them was an older gentleman. Not sure about the gentleman part. He was irritated when people in the back were talking in the back (which wasn't offensive to me) and asked them to stop 3 times and followed up with, "maybe the next war they will be on our side." (which was offensive) They were Middle Eastern. The next one was an odd guy who seemed distracted when talking ... read more