Road Trip to the Northeast – Wrapup Thoughts
What can I say about this trip? It was great to have some time off work, to travel to an area of the country I had never visited, to mark some states and a NP off my list. The views at Acadia were awesome.
By the time I got back home, though, I needed a vacation from my vacation. I was so tired and worn out it was ridiculous. My eyes were bigger than my stomach in this case and I just crammed too much into too little time. I definitely did not get to enjoy everything New England had to offer, and didn’t really get to enjoy the stops I did make. I could have easily spent another 2 days in the area, and that still would have meant cramming things in.
Here is the route I took on my travels – a little over 2700 miles:
Other random thoughts:
- I found 8 geocaches in 6 states.
- I only bought one meal over the 5 days, the lobster dinner in Maine. Other meals came from the cooler and snacks I packed, and Lori.
- I ended up about $200 over budget, mainly from staying in a hotel one night more than I expected as well as the cost of hotels being more than I anticipated. Shopping trip to L.L. Bean didn’t help matters.
- Toll booths in New England are EVERYWHERE! I spent close to $50 just on them, $8 of that just to cross a bridge.
- Kristy and I decided there’s a moose conspiracy in the northeast. Signs are everywhere, yet no live ones to be seen.
- The iPhone was indispensable. I didn’t have to carry a separate mp3 player, the maps app helped me find a route around traffic and got me out of the jam when I was lost, the camera served as an adequate replacement when my digital camera’s batteries unexpectedly died, the geocaching app came in handy to find caches and since I was alone, it felt connected to family and friends as I posted updates on Facebook and txted.
The same can’t be said of AT&T. Most of the time I was in the northeast, I was on the Edge network; no 3G there. And that was when I had service. Most of my day in Acadia and the following day driving through NH and VT, I rarely had service. As popular of a park as Acadia is, barely 10 minutes from Bar Harbor, how could there be no signal?!?
All in all, I’m glad I took the trip. It was a good learning and growing experience for me personally and I’m glad to have traveled to that part of the country. Next time, though, I’m going to go back to my planning ways. It’s going to take me weeks to recover from the trip.
If you haven’t already, I would recommend you head up that way at some point in your life! Just make sure you have enough time to truly enjoy it!
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