Miles traveled: 2,400Additional states visited: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey
(for a total of 14)
Gallons of gas consumed: roughly 300
Gallons of gas consumed: roughly 300
The State Signs
If I haven’t told you guys before, one of DJ’s very favorite things to do is stop by the side of the road and take pictures of the state line signs as we drive by. This does make for excellent pictures; however, the logistics of getting these pictures is a complete pain in the you-know-what. Typically, we are driving down a busy major highway when these signs occur, which means DJ slams on the brakes and pulls off on the precarious, often non-existent shoulder where the RV is steadily rocked by the backdraft of the huge semis rolling by just inches from our parked vehicle. I then have to unhook the baby from the car seat, stumble out of the RV, avoid getting hit by the semis, and then walk across an unmowed, bramble-filled, and snake-ridden field, rain or shine, and hold a heavy and squirmy Roxanne for 10 minutes so we can get the picture, praying that both we and RV will not get hit.
Needless to say, I hate these stops, but I do love DJ and the resulting pics, so I usually don’t grumble too much. Here are a few of the state sign pictures we’ve acquired so far – we missed a few states due to extremely precarious picture-taking conditions or darkness, but I feel confident that I will be subjected to many more of these by the time this trip is through.
If I haven’t told you guys before, one of DJ’s very favorite things to do is stop by the side of the road and take pictures of the state line signs as we drive by. This does make for excellent pictures; however, the logistics of getting these pictures is a complete pain in the you-know-what. Typically, we are driving down a busy major highway when these signs occur, which means DJ slams on the brakes and pulls off on the precarious, often non-existent shoulder where the RV is steadily rocked by the backdraft of the huge semis rolling by just inches from our parked vehicle. I then have to unhook the baby from the car seat, stumble out of the RV, avoid getting hit by the semis, and then walk across an unmowed, bramble-filled, and snake-ridden field, rain or shine, and hold a heavy and squirmy Roxanne for 10 minutes so we can get the picture, praying that both we and RV will not get hit.
Needless to say, I hate these stops, but I do love DJ and the resulting pics, so I usually don’t grumble too much. Here are a few of the state sign pictures we’ve acquired so far – we missed a few states due to extremely precarious picture-taking conditions or darkness, but I feel confident that I will be subjected to many more of these by the time this trip is through.
1 comment:
Ummm, I may be the most not smart person that reads your blog-venture but who takes the picture? Is the camera on a tripod and timer?
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