The trek across the country took four days. With four boys, you gotta have lots of stuff in the car. We were packed to the gills–sleeping bags, pillows, blankets, food, water, cd players for each kid, a TV, movies, video games, reading books, activity books…well, lots of stuff to keep busy.
We traveled across eight states before we got to North Carolina–Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. In Texas we stopped at The Million Barrel Museum. We saw it off the freeway and decided it might be interesting. It was a big hole where they use to keep a million barrels of oil. We also saw a lot of old unused oil rigs. I guess that’s Texas.
We saw the mighty Mississippi river and some battlefields in the area. The kids found a fun h
ill and spent an hour sliding down it. Some things are just more interesting than our county’s longest river or history. Here are Ben and Gordon enjoying the great state of Mississippi.
It turned out we ended up in Georgia on Halloween. I have a cousin (also my roommate in college) North of Atlanta, so we stayed with her family. They were so hospitable and we had lots of fun. We carved jack-o-lanterns, trick-or-treated, saw their friend’s
house who goes all out for Halloween, had pizza, wrestled, stayed up late, and had a great visit. Nick, Ben, Gordon & Ethan were all super heros–Nick was actually the super villian. Ethan wouldn’t pose for the picture.