28 Days til Blast Off

A ladybug laying eggs on a slide in our backyard!  Exploration opportunities abound no matter where you are!

We've got less than a month before we hit the road!

This week I'm learning every little bit I can about the technology side of our trip: movie making, podcasting, etc.- all the fun stuff for our own memories and for our readers.  Salem and Averlin are getting excited to put together some slide shows for their friends that are following along.

I keep getting excellent suggestions of things to do and places to visit, and I'm having to exert all the self-control I can muster not to shout a resounding YES!! to all of them.  It's either self-control or we're going to have to ramp up our fundraising efforts and begin selling our organs or something because there is so much to DO!  This little trip has much potential of turning into a month long excursion rather than our original plan of 2 weeks.  I mean there are 48 whole states in the main body of the US full of exploration opportunities! 

We'll only be visiting 7 of them, but still- that's a lot of exploring to do!  Our current route takes us through Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, and Wyoming.  I might be easily tempted into Iowa to visit my brother and his family, which will have just added a brand new baby boy by the time I'm out that way...  So, let's just make that 8 states.

We've got our basic route mapped out anyway, and we'll have our finalized plan of stops and adventures done in about a week. That means you've still got time to plant little ideas in my head of what to be sure not to miss! (Nebraska needs some serious love, people, so if you know of something in the middle of one of those cornfields that will act as an interesting diversion, please PLEASE! let me know... otherwise that one's gonna be a killer.)

28 days and counting...