15 days, 12 states, 3800 miles, 172 pictures

I got back on Friday from my family's 2-week driving trip up to Pennsylvania for my sister's wedding (which took place in Delaware). It will take me a few days to post the pictures from all the goings-on, but they'll be up there soon. In the mean time, a few notes from the trip:

• The girls did remarkably well in the car for 2-year-olds. Granted, we never had more than 7 hours of driving in one day, and we stopped at least once every two hours (unless they were asleep) to give them a chance to run around. It took planning, but it bodes well for future car trips.
• The wedding was beautiful, just like the couple. Although we had rain the days before the wedding, the threatened rain on the day of the wedding never came, and the valley was a gorgeous setting.
• I forgot to bring the USB cable to download the pictures from my camera to my Dad's laptop, so I had no easy way to off-load some pictures from the camera's memory card. As a solution, I stepped-down the image quality, which allowed me to store enough pictures on the 128 MB memory card so that we didn't have to keep from taking pictures we wanted to.
• It's wonderful to have a three-day weekend at home to settle back in before I head to work. I really should go in and get a head start on my emails, but I may not.
• The grass was very high after three weeks of growth. Apparently, it rained a lot in Houston while we were gone. The lawnmower just did get through it all.

Posted by Rob Reid at July 4, 2004 04:11 PM