We've been planning to take a cross country trip for a few years now. A couple of years ago it was put on hold because I was pregnant with Eli which meant all extra money would be going towards baby gear (since it had been 6.5 years since Otto was born). Last year we thought Eli was just too small to travel that far. 9 months ago we decided that we couldn't keep putting this off forever...we plotted a route that lead us down to Florida and then west all the way to the coast of California. Sam was going to take 2 weeks off from work for us to accomplish such an incredible journey! We have now revised that trip to something slightly smaller. We will be heading down to Florida and then over to Texas (just past the boarder.) Sam is only going to take one week off from work so that we can use his other week of vacation in the summer, this means that we will have to cover a lot of miles each day! With all the time we will be spending in the car it shouldn't be a problem for someone to update this blog daily (hopefully with some great pictures!) I feel I should mention another factor in our choice to make the trip one week was the kids (Bella & Lexie) were fighting with us about not missing any school! Most kids would be excited to miss a week of school but Lexie NEEDS to have perfect attendance and Bella just has too many subjects she doesn't want to miss. Bella tried to find a couple of days she could miss of school but for some reason her favorite subjects (all of them) seem to happen daily!
I've had a lot of fun taking polls about different things about our trip. Maybe I'll post one of our polls each day until we leave (in April)...no promises though since it has been 3 years since I've updated our primary blog!
I'll start you off with one of my polls today!
-What geological site are you most excited to see?
-Me: Niagra
-Sam: The Gulf
-Ken: Niagra Falls
-Bella: The Cumberland Gap
-Lexie: A cactus
-Otto: Niagra Falls
-Eli: if I had to take a guess at what he'd most like to see it would be Niagra Falls
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