Last Saturday, Pat & I were up at 4AM in order to make the 8-hour drive down to New Jersey for my friend Dorana's baby shower. This trip held a number of firsts for us:
- our first time driving so far into the US
- our first time driving in the US alone
- our first time driving a significant distance without Pat having studied any maps
- our first time driving a significant distance with me navigating
- our first time so close to the ocean
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And here's my sexy driver - I can't thank him enough for bringing me:
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Before we left, I knew I wanted to document our drive - inspired by one of my favourite blogs, The Dainty Squid, I decided to take a photo an hour.
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And then took some more in between. There was so much to see!
Since I have 45 photos of the drive there, I'm not going to show them all. You can head on over to my Flickr photostream if you're interested. I will post most of them though & I'll break them up into a couple posts to make it easier.
So let's get started shall we?
5 AM - departure
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6 AM - duty free + border crossing
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6:30ish AM - downtown Buffalo
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7 AM - sunrise, with the moon still peeking through the trees
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7:30ish AM - snow!?! We had to drive South to find it! Ha!
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As you can see above, this area was quite hilly. And everywhere you looked - windmills. I don't know what it was about these, but they totally freaked me out. Chills-down-my-spine-freaked-out. When we returned at night I had to avoid looking outside because it was even worse in the dark. There was something so alien about them....
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*shudder*
8 AM - quaint little town
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9 AM - Dunkin' Donuts + more scenic countryside
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We're making pretty good time, aren't we? We're almost out of New York and into Pennsylvania! Time to do a little shopping I think....
The next leg of the trip will be posted later today!
1 comment:
I love road trips and I'm enjoying hearing about yours!
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