We left South Carolina and headed for Gainesville. We were going to spend the night with Lewis’s aunt Marie and uncle Al. Lewis had not seen either of them since he was a young child, and I had never met them before at all. I was nervous because we were descending on the home of two strangers, and I didn’t know what to expect, or if they would like us. We arrived just before sunset on Friday evening. Uncle Al and Aunt Marie live in a little one story ...

We arrived in Raleigh later than expected (as always, this has become a recurring theme), but Matthew and Kristin had dinner waiting for us; it was worth the wait, these two are excellent cooks, and they fed us well throughout this visit. Upon our arrival I remembered that Matt and Kristin lived on the second floor of their apartment building, normally, no biggie, on crutches? Torture! I managed to make it up the stairs and proclaimed I would spend the remaining ...

We left our little campground in New Jersey pretty early Friday morning. Our first stop was a Starbucks, so Lewis could have coffee and I could charge my laptop and usurp the WiFi for a few hours for work. From there we stopped for some New York bagels (in New Jersey), they were almost as good, still better than what we get in Cincinnati. I love bagels. so. much. But I digress. We decided to take the scenic route (which seems to be the theme of this trip so far) ...

We left Batavia, NY for New York City around 11am. The directions claimed that it was a six hour drive. We were hoping to meet our friends between 6 and 6:30. The drive in was pretty uneventful, and quite pretty in general; rolling "mountains," and forested valleys lined the highway through New York and Pennsylvania. We reached Lincoln Tunnel in New Jersey around 6:15pm, our GPS said we had 5 miles left of our trip and it would take 22 minutes to arrive. I though...

After getting our tire fixed yesterday we headed out to Niagara Falls (although our ultimate destination last night was my niece, Danielle Dwyer's house). As we headed north we noticed the toll road, so we quickly got on Google maps to see if there was another route that wouldn't charge tolls and wouldn't add too much extra time, enter route 5. According to Google, it was only an extra 20 minutes (it turned out to be faster because of traffic backups on 90). We e...