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26 states (and the District Of Columbia) lie entirely east of the Great Mississippi River, and I’ve set foot in all but a handful of them.
Here are the TOP 5 states that I have not set foot in, but would love to some day:
5. Vermont – I’d love to stay at the historic Stratford Inn and hang out for awhile with Dick and Joanna, Michael and Stephanie, George, Larry, his brother Darryl, and his other brother Darryl. (I’m sure that Vermont is just like “Newhart“.)
4. Rhode Island – As a little kid I ventured into the southeastern corner of Delaware every Summer that we visited Ocean City Maryland (just across the border). Delaware’s the 2ND smallest state in the Union. I want to visit the tiniest state of them all.
3. Massachusetts – I know a lot of people from Boston. The’re mostly on TV and in the movies. I’d like to be a tourist for a long weekend in the big city that they all came from.
2. Maine – I’ve been to the southern terminus of both I-95 and U.S. 1 many times. I’d love to see where it all starts. I’d also love to visit Eastport and watch the first sunrise of the nation.
1. New York – In my 41+ years on God’s Great Earth I’ve never been to the city so nice they named it twice – New York, New York. I want to spend an entire week there and just sightsee !
I’m back home. Here’s a look back at my recent road-trip / vacation:
1. From start (early Thursday morning) to finish (mid Sunday afternoon) I drove a grand total of 764 miles from here to there and then back again. That’s 372 miles on Thursday, 0 miles on Friday, 23 miles on Saturday, and 369 miles on Sunday.
2. I filled up with gas twice on this road-trip – both times at the same exact Chevron station on North Wickam Road just off I-95 north of Melbourne. I basically filled up there on Thursday afternoon, drove 326.6 miles, and then filled up there again on this Sunday afternoon. I paid $3.679 per gallon both times. I averaged about 29 MPG on this road-trip. That’s down a bit from previous road-trips, but then again my car is middle-aged now (over 5-years-old).
3. Much of East-Central Florida received anywhere from a foot to two feet of rain due to Tropical Storm Fay a couple of weeks ago. It looks that way along I-95. The median and road sides are green, lucious, and overgrown with a lot of standing water all around. I’ve seen this area during brush fire season in the middle of a severe drought. What a complete turnaround from that time !
4. My fellow drivers up and down I-95 were unusually polite during this road-trip. There were the usual suspects – such as the speeders and the tailgaters – but all-in-all it was a pleasant drive to and fro the northeast of Florida. Traffic was light to moderate during much of the trip on Thursday and on Sunday. I expected it to be much heavier due to the holiday weekend.
5. My longtime ‘old-school’ Sunpass device that I’ve had for all of these years CRASHED at the start of my road-trip on Thursday. It worked fine for the first tollbooth north of Homestead on Florida’s Turnpike, but then it stopped working after that. It basically burned up (internally) in the hot sun. I had to use cash from that point forward. I was rocking the dedicated change lanes like it was 1999 !
The ‘Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad’ will not be presented here on the big blog tomorrow afternoon. It will return to its regularly-scheduled time and position on the afternoon of Sunday September 07TH 2008. This bald dude, this college pup, and this fishing lunatic will also not be at the LPC tomorrow, so if you’re looking for a good solid recap of the events of the day at the LPC then you’ll just have to check out the blog of this crazy cat or his lovely wife. This fellow Redskins fanatic may also have a good wrap-up too.
I’ll have a special blog entry for you tomorrow – posted just a few hours after I return home from my current undisclosed location somewhere within the great state of Florida. Be sure to check it out. You won’t regret it pal.
Don’t forget – ‘Monday Night Countdown’ and ‘Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts’ over the next 72 hours.
Have a sensational Saturday night everyone, and until we hang out again here on the blog or LIVE and in-person … REMEMBER THIS !
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