Dayton, Ohio
I mentioned this randomly, because I applied to law school here and went to see the campus. I got to sit in on a Torts Class and I loved it. The instructor, Thomas Hagel, is the brother of the US Senator from Nebraska, Senator Chuck Hagel (I think the two are on opposite ends of the political spectrum). The class captivated my curiosity and only furthered my confidence in law being the right direction for me. However, I am still debating whether to attend.
Cousins in Brazil, Indiana
I got to visit some more cousins (yes I know, I have a plethora of cousins) in Indy. These cousins of mine from Indy use to visit Virginia every summer for 2 weeks when we were kids and it was always an awesome time having them around. The 5 of us would spend most of our time tying strings around the legs of June Bugs and flying them as kites, climbing, swimming, playing some kind of war games, wrestling, or killing some kind of bug but you get the idea. Anyway, it was great getting to see them again since I haven't seen any of the them in about 4 or 5 years. The great thing is, even after all these years its like nothing has changed when we are together however,....No bugs were killed.
Amish Country
Kind of reminded me of Roswell, NM....they really played up and marketed their Amish Heritage right outside of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It really wasn't much different than driving through Dayton, VA with all the Mennonites there, except the outfits were a bit cooler and the married men had some sick beards...sicker than mine. I fit in quite nicely there. If you're able to drive through without being held up in traffic thanks to all the horse and buggys you'll notice a lot of stores and restaurants with names like "Jebs Hardware"...."Isaacs Barbershop", "Jacob's Tractor & Supply" and you can even stay at an Amish Motel which advertised having "Candlelit" rooms. While I can't entirely remember the names of the stores, I kid you not that I saw a Jebs, a Jacobs, and an Isaacs something.
New England, Niagara and Canada
Hitting more state capitols(boring I know), Connnecticut has a neat little round-table for their Senate members in the chamber. I went up as far north as Augusta, Maine, then swung by Cape Elizabeth and got there just in time to see a gorgeous sunset, unfortunately no hunnies were around for this romantic moment. I went south passing through The Live Free or Die State, and an interesting side note, that state has 400 members in their House and about 20 members in their Senate! Both the largest and smallest state chambers in the country. Vermont was uneventful and has a really old legislative building.
From there, I hit Albany then drove across the state of New York, which very beautiful, to Niagara Falls. I was a bit dissapointed with Niagara Falls, at least on the USA side. So I jumped across the the border to the Peoples Republican of Canada (if only I had choked in Canada I could have gotten free health care), and the view of the falls is superbly better from there than it is from NY. I spent maybe 2 hours in Canada. From there, I continued south had to backtrack a little slightly passing through Pennsylvania again and then heading towards Maryland and Delaware before venturing home. I made it back June 20 at 12:30 a.m. Ending the nearly 3 month long journey....
As Forrest Gump would say after trekking across the country "I'm pretty tired....I think I'll go back home now."
Amish Country
Kind of reminded me of Roswell, NM....they really played up and marketed their Amish Heritage right outside of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It really wasn't much different than driving through Dayton, VA with all the Mennonites there, except the outfits were a bit cooler and the married men had some sick beards...sicker than mine. I fit in quite nicely there. If you're able to drive through without being held up in traffic thanks to all the horse and buggys you'll notice a lot of stores and restaurants with names like "Jebs Hardware"...."Isaacs Barbershop", "Jacob's Tractor & Supply" and you can even stay at an Amish Motel which advertised having "Candlelit" rooms. While I can't entirely remember the names of the stores, I kid you not that I saw a Jebs, a Jacobs, and an Isaacs something.
New England, Niagara and Canada
Hitting more state capitols(boring I know), Connnecticut has a neat little round-table for their Senate members in the chamber. I went up as far north as Augusta, Maine, then swung by Cape Elizabeth and got there just in time to see a gorgeous sunset, unfortunately no hunnies were around for this romantic moment. I went south passing through The Live Free or Die State, and an interesting side note, that state has 400 members in their House and about 20 members in their Senate! Both the largest and smallest state chambers in the country. Vermont was uneventful and has a really old legislative building.
From there, I hit Albany then drove across the state of New York, which very beautiful, to Niagara Falls. I was a bit dissapointed with Niagara Falls, at least on the USA side. So I jumped across the the border to the Peoples Republican of Canada (if only I had choked in Canada I could have gotten free health care), and the view of the falls is superbly better from there than it is from NY. I spent maybe 2 hours in Canada. From there, I continued south had to backtrack a little slightly passing through Pennsylvania again and then heading towards Maryland and Delaware before venturing home. I made it back June 20 at 12:30 a.m. Ending the nearly 3 month long journey....
As Forrest Gump would say after trekking across the country "I'm pretty tired....I think I'll go back home now."
If you had choked, you could have taken up residency because you be on a waiting list to get an MRI in Canada, or gone to Pittsburgh which has more MRI machines than the entirety of Canada. Glad you didn't choke.
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