Tour USA

15 States in 21 days!

Between August 11 and August 31 we saw 15 states.
And you wonder why we are exhausted...

Washington
Idaho
Montana
Wyoming
South Dakota
Iowa

Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Kentucky
Tennessee
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida

We arrived back in Cincinnati after a fun week at Diane’s father’s cabin in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and his condo on Florida’s west coastline. Like good Ohioans, we drove to Florida—a 17-hour drive in one day.

This road trip punctuated our cross-country trip three weeks ago. We racked up over 3,500 miles (5632km)…probably about $500 in gasoline. Steven joked with a friend that we are trying to consume our annual quota of gasoline before arriving in public-transportation-rich Europe.

When we arrive in Budapest on September 10, we’ll have no car (thankfully). Having a car in Budapest is liability as it would be in London or New York City. We’ll likely go several years and never sit behind the wheel of a car. Luckily our Ohio driver’s licenses don’t expire until 2012.

We are looking forward to consuming less energy while in Hungary. Consuming less is one of the attractions overall to living in Europe. It is cliché these days but we do want to reduce our environmental footprint.