Seattle...well almost...

Since our last post almost 2 weeks ago we have....

• visited the Nation's Capital
• Spent 2 days in New Jersey with the Macombers
• went to Wild Wood the first night
  
• and the beach the
  
• spent 2 days in New York City (we could have spent 5 months there and not have seen everything) plus 1 in Niagra Falls (which was AWESOME!!)
• spent a day in Chicago with Helga(tons of sky scrapers!!)
• spent a day in South Dakota where we saw
• the world's only CORN PALACE( thats right folks, a palace made of corn!!)
• Wall Drug (this huge store that advertised like every 5 miles for 300 miles!)
• and of course you can't go to South Dakota and not see MT RUSHMORE

• Then we drove to YELLOWSTONE and saw the Old Faithful geyser erupt
  
• Now we are off to Seattle tomorrow and then Santa Rosa, next Yosemite and then we will have completed our month long journey!

so much has happend these last few weeks that it is too much to try and post in 1 blog! :)
-Laura and Emily

In South Carolina and on our way to DC

I am now officially 19!! After spending a day at Universal Studios Orlando we drove up to South Carolina to see the Smiths. So we have just spent a funfilled day with the Smiths in SC...first we went out on the lake and held onto an intertubetype thingy while the boat sped up. Then we went to lunch at a BBQ restaurant in North Carolina. next we got a tour of South Carolina...then we had dessert and then returned back to the Smiths toplay some games on the Wii...apparently I am not quite as coordinated as Laura and the Smith boys. Then we watched Transformers which was actually a pretty good movie and had some pizza. Sleeping here another night and then on our way to the Nation's capitol.
-Laura and Emily

Pictures!

We went a little crazy and put kind of a lot of pictures up. Enjoy!

A store front on Rodeo Drive


Original London Bridge near Lake Havasu




Waputki National Forest


An old Pueblo. Those people must have been short!


Yay for tripods!


Grand Canyon!


That's a long way down!


We both liked it


It was right across the road!!


We went through a few Indian Reservations.


Pretty


I didn't make it before the timer went off... in the Petrified forest.


A Petrified piece of wood. It looks like crystal


Look! We put up the tent all by ourselves!


Cadillac Ranch


You could graffiti them yourselves... constant changing art. Kinda cool.

Day 5

It's been a little harder to get internet access than we thought it would be. Right now we are in Lubbock, Texas and our camp site has free wi-fi. Sweet!

We've driven close to 1500 miles so far. We're aiming for about 300 miles a day, but the first day we went twice as far. At this point we haven't seen a WHOLE lot. Besides what's on the road that is. We did the Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest, saw Lake Havasu and the original London Bridge, and a couple other random things. Now we're in Texas and headed for Dallas next. We're planning on spending a couple of days in Texas just to explore and drive a little less (although it's a huge state, not like we have too much of a choice).

Our first night we actually ended up staying at a Motel 6 instead of camping. We went up this mountain following directions to what was supposed to be a campsite. About 20 minutes up a one lane dirt road our GPS told us to stop and there was nothing there. After a 10 point u-turn we made it back down the mountain and continued on farther down the road to a motel (by this time it was almost 11pm). We were definitely kind of discouraged and afraid that finding a campsite every night was going to be too hard.

But the next night we discovered the KOA Kampgrounds. A chain all over the US. Much easier to find and all have bathrooms and showers. The one we're at right now even has a pool and wi-fi! So no more worries on that part. At the first place we arrived after dark and it was really windy. We couldn't figure out how the heck to set up our tent. After 20 minutes of struggle a really nice guy came over and helped us. It really wasn't tough, we just didn't know what we were doing. But now we're pro at tent setting up. Haha yay to that!

Not an overly exciting update as we've mostly just been driving at this point. But now the more fun part is just ahead of us!

Pictures to come later, I can't seem to upload them at the moment.

All Packed!

We are all packed and ready to take off on our road trip tomorrow morning! Our goal is to travel around the US starting in the South... moving all the way to the East Coast... then back to the West on the Northern route. All in all about 8,000 miles... wow!

We have 27 days to do it in! Camping most of the time and just enjoying the sites the US has to offer. We will try to update as much as possible, depending on when we have internet access. And our goal is to post a picture or 2 every couple of days.

Also we are trying to figure out how to use Twitter so that if you look to the right of this post you can see a mini update of where we are or what we are doing at the moment.

Can't wait to start driving tomorrow morning! Our goal tomorrow is to make it to Flagstaff Arizona...

-Laura and Emily