Living in New England makes it possible to visit many states with minimal effort. This summer we unintentionally found ourselves in six states over the span of six days.
On a Thursday evening in July, Joshua received an invitation from MSNBC to sit on a panel that Saturday morning. We had already planned a week long road trip to visit both of our families, and we made a quick decision to leave early and add on this adventure. So the very next day the three of us packed up the car and left our home state of Massachusetts to head to New York.
Upon arrival we took Sophia on a brief walk around our hotel for her first experience of New York City.
The next morning she and I watched her Dad on TV from our room around the corner from the studio.
A clip from the show can be viewed here.
After a picnic lunch in Central Park we were on the road to New Hampshire. We spent the night at the house where Joshua spent the first eighteen years of his life before traveling two hours to Vermont.
Joshua's mother's side of the family is from Vermont, and we were there to celebrate the Thurber family reunion. This year's theme was the Olympics and the younger cousins had a lot of fun participating in the games.
After a wonderful afternoon of family and food, we traveled back to New Hampshire to spend several additional days visiting. Blueberry picking was one of the highlights.
Next we went to see my Dad's side of the family in Ocean Grove, New Jersey. In order to get to New Jersey we had to drive through Connecticut. A drive through might not count for some, but know that you see A LOT of Connecticut when traveling from New Hampshire to New Jersey.
By the end of the summer Sophia had visited a fifth of the states. While we were visiting my family in Pennsylvania we went to lunch in Delaware just so that we could check off number ten. Fortunately this was only a twenty minute drive.
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