More travel ahead

I was hoping to add a few more posts this week but, well, a bit of shopping got in the way. The bargains to be had at all the stores in Framingham are just too good to pass up. On Sunday we are heading down to New York City for the week to meet up with Karen's parents and some other people. When we first arrived in NYC in late June, we realized that getting online in the city without your own computer is 1) very difficult and 2) extremely expensive. Karen is bringing her new laptop with her this time around, so hopefully we can get on to update at least once, but we have a very busy week ahead of us. Less than 2 weeks to go until our trip really comes to an end and we fly back to London!!! Where has all the time gone???

On Friday night we went to a concert in Rhode Island (Collective Soul, Live, and Counting Crows; yes, I know all these bands haven't been popular since 1994, but they still played a lot of songs we like and the show was good), which brought our total of states visited on this trip to 25. Yep, that's right, a full one-half of the fifty states! In case you're wondering, they are New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, and Rhode Island. And we also paid D.C. a visit.

We didn't hit South Carolina on this trip, but you might enjoy this video from the Miss Teen USA pageant. I think the video speaks for itself. I'm going to try a separate entry to see if posting the video directly in the blog works.

And not to perpetuate the stereotypes about Southerners, but I just have to share this picture from our hotel room in Arkansas.



Now, why would I take a picture of some not-so-good hotel "artwork"? Only because it was hanging upside down.

Well, I might as well exhaust my whole collection of pictures from Arkansas, so here's the other one (I only took two in the day it took to cross the state).



We did swing by the state capital, Little Rock, and saw the outside of the President Clinton Presidential Library, but it was already closed. We also missed one of the key attractions in Arkansas, Crater of Diamonds State Park. It's the only diamond-producing site in the world open to the public and you get to keep what you find!