Day 25: NY >> MA

It was about a five and a half hour drive from the rest stop to Boston, but added in were several stops for coffee, human pee breaks, dog pee breaks, snacks, anything to stay awake. I arrived at home by two. The house was empty, ready to be moved out of. Every little noise echoed with a sadness. We loved this place so much, but there was another chapter ahead for us. Especially for Holly, who had worked so hard for so long to be able to buy her first home at the age of twenty six, in Boston no less.  

I may not have read the plaque on each monument or place of interest. I didn’t read up on the history of the place I was in, nor did I learn the geology behind the mountains, canyons, and rivers I admired. I saw a lot of mountains, canyons, and rivers though. I’m going to count that as something. I read the traffic signs in each state and noticed if they were yelling at you or if they were more suggestive and polite. I heard drivers, whether they were calm and pleasant or rushed and angry behind the wheel. I saw the several different ways to make bales of hay, the different sizes and shapes, and ways to stack them. I listened to the local radio, which was more often than not country music. It comes in everywhere. I mean everywhere. I listened to farm market radio when they rattled off data stating if the corn and soy beans and cattle were up or down. I ate from local joints and eavesdropped on conversations. I can read a book anytime, but there’s some things you just have to submerse yourself in. 

I’ve been so appreciative of so many things the past month: no car trouble, no problems with the cargo box, and no speeding tickets in over nine thousand miles. I’m thankful for national forests, safe rest areas, a gorgeous country, when gas prices are below three dollars, when coffee is below three dollars, credit cards, eighty mile per hour speed limits, and dog-friendly places. I’m thankful for friends and family who checked in on me. And I’m thankful for Henley every single day (Thanks George & Melissa).  :)

I drove 9,465 miles through twenty three states in twenty five days. 

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Exhausted but super excited  :p