9 States in 9 Days - Summer's Only Hurrah
Since all of our summer plans had to be cancelled, we convinced our oldest son to move to Chicago (for graduate school) a month early so that we could make a vacation out of it. Since he's not super attached to living in our basement in semi-quarantine, he was happy to oblige. We took the scenic route so we could see some new sights along the way. We camped in a new state every night for the first week, then zipped through 2 more (new ones) in one day on the way home. Everyone was crammed in their own personal cubby. The nice part of this was that no one could touch or annoy another person -- mostly. We had to call out to each other periodically to make sure we were all still alive and well. We took lots of pictures, ate lots of picnics, swatted lots of bugs, sweat buckets, set up and took down tents, criticized navigation skills, listened to books (or ignored books with podcasts), and had a grand adventure together. 3500 miles and we still like...