MartyA
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The members of our little group all met through the XS11.com forum many years ago, and have been on many trips and rallys together. Ralph and Tracy live near Lancaster, PA, 99 Royal Star (Venture Royale without the plastic, 125 miles to the tank <_< ), Brent from Lilburn, GA drives up on his 2002 HD "Fire-fighter's Special Edition" the day before and travels with us. And some of you know me and Sally.
We take 8-10 days each year and travel tosome part of the country to collect states, and we try to stop and see landmarks of notoriety and lesser notoriety, mostly free if possible, while we collect states (and Canadian provinces this time.) Last year we went to South Dakota from PA, collected 14 states and saw things like Devil's Tower, buffalo herd, Annie Oakley's grave, Deadwood, St. Louis Arch, Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, SD, stuff like that. We don't use GPS, I have MaPS from Streets and Trips.
This year we had 10 days (started out 9 but available motels were further off our route so we had to add another day) beginning June 28 - "Day 1".
It turns out that we had a sub-theme to our trip this year. Brent is a member of the Red Knights, and they have some sort of contest for their members to get a photo in front of fire houses with 1st initials that will spell out "Red Knights Grand Tour". So we stopped at many fire houses along the way (adding many many many minutes to the schedule.)
[SIZE=14pt]Day 1 select photos PA, NJ, NY, CT [/SIZE]
Packing to leave from Ralph and Tracy's:
First main stop was in NJ to see this fine lady. Brent had never seen the Statue of Liberty. This is Tracy and Sally.
On a clear day you can see most of Manhattan from NJ. I lived in NJ for many years the twin towers were a sight from here.
The taller pointed building in the background is the Empire State Building.
THis is Ellis Island.
Next stop was Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (as in the Legend of Sleepy Hollow) in the former South Tarrytown, NY by way of George Washington Bridge. (We take lots of photos of ourselves when the ride gets boring...)
Washington Irving is buried there:
After we checked in at our motel we spotted these in New London, CT:
And to close out the day we ate here:
Great pizza and the price was surprisingly good.
We take 8-10 days each year and travel tosome part of the country to collect states, and we try to stop and see landmarks of notoriety and lesser notoriety, mostly free if possible, while we collect states (and Canadian provinces this time.) Last year we went to South Dakota from PA, collected 14 states and saw things like Devil's Tower, buffalo herd, Annie Oakley's grave, Deadwood, St. Louis Arch, Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, SD, stuff like that. We don't use GPS, I have MaPS from Streets and Trips.
This year we had 10 days (started out 9 but available motels were further off our route so we had to add another day) beginning June 28 - "Day 1".
It turns out that we had a sub-theme to our trip this year. Brent is a member of the Red Knights, and they have some sort of contest for their members to get a photo in front of fire houses with 1st initials that will spell out "Red Knights Grand Tour". So we stopped at many fire houses along the way (adding many many many minutes to the schedule.)
[SIZE=14pt]Day 1 select photos PA, NJ, NY, CT [/SIZE]
Packing to leave from Ralph and Tracy's:
First main stop was in NJ to see this fine lady. Brent had never seen the Statue of Liberty. This is Tracy and Sally.
On a clear day you can see most of Manhattan from NJ. I lived in NJ for many years the twin towers were a sight from here.
The taller pointed building in the background is the Empire State Building.
THis is Ellis Island.
Next stop was Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (as in the Legend of Sleepy Hollow) in the former South Tarrytown, NY by way of George Washington Bridge. (We take lots of photos of ourselves when the ride gets boring...)
Washington Irving is buried there:
After we checked in at our motel we spotted these in New London, CT:
And to close out the day we ate here:
Great pizza and the price was surprisingly good.
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