Day Thirty-Seven – There and Back Again

This fall’s get away began with a plan to go to Minnesota to join my sister and brother-in-law’s celebration of their 50th wedding anniversary. After a wonderful week with family, we headed towards western Pennsylvania where our son was on a temporary job assignment. Mississippi River, Missouri We hadn’t travelled east of the Mississippi River before, so that was an experience in itself. However, once we reached that goal, we pulled out our US map (Yes, we still use hardcopy maps). Some of the paper maps we used. Looking at the map, we realized that we were more than half way to Maine. That had been a place Pat had always wanted to visit and Nancy had wanted to see the Atlantic. To head further east or turn west was a debate. However, you never know if an opportunity will present itself again, so we opted to head east. We made a bee line (well, as close to a straight line as you can go in that part of the country) for the east coast. Zipping through Pennsylvania, Ne...