Leaving the Great Lakes area, Daniel and I kept heading west across the plain states. South Dakota South Dakota has the most monotonous landscape I’ve ever seen. It’s just flat farmland as far as the horizon for hours and hours. We saw fields of corn, alfalfa, sunflowers (which were at least sort of colorful), sugar…
After going up the east coast Daniel and I turned west and headed to the Great Lakes. Other than out the window of an airplane, I’d never seen the lakes, so I was excited for this part of our trip. Erie, Pennsylvania The drive from Boston to Erie was long but beautiful. We drove through…
From Raleigh-Durham Daniel and I continued driving north up the east coast. On our way through Virginia we stopped at Colonial Williamsburg, a town recreated to look like a colonial village and staffed with actors who go around in old-timey dress doing old-timey jobs. It’s kind of like a big interactive museum. We saw “George…
Erika and I spent about a week in North Carolina. New Bern New Bern is a town of around 30k people at the fork where the Trent and Nuese rivers meet. It’s near the Atlantic ocean, but not quite coastal. Its location gives it a warm and muggy climate in the summer. New Bern’s main…