Next week we are celebrating our 25th anniversary. My dear hubby asked me if I’d like to go on a road trip with him and then took 25 days off of work until he was told he had mandatory training on the second day of our upcoming trip. So we are leaving tomorrow for Nauvoo, Illinois on the first leg of our trip. We’ll be visiting new friends in Missouri and visiting LDS church sites there and hopefully a visit to Hamilton and the Missouri Star Quilt Shop!

After Nauvoo, it’s Chillicothe, Ohio, and the Hopewell ruins there. Then on to North Carolina and a visit with one of my Gentry cousins who lives in the original Mayberry, Mt. Airy, NC! Next stop is Raleigh, NC, and another cousin to meet and visit. Then it’s off to the east coast and a long drive down to St. Augustine, FL and heading back towards Utah via two stops in Florida with other Gentry cousins and up the gulf coast to Texas and a visit with my brother in law and his family before heading home to Utah. All in 23 days. We know we can do it because we’ve driven from Utah to Yosemite in one day!  Tomorrow, we leave when he gets home from his training and plan on being in Cheyenne by the middle of the night and Nebraska in the morning. One sleeps while the other drives so that we can get to where we need to be. We once took our kids to Canada via Washington state and did the grand circle in 6 days. Over 2500 miles were driven in those 6 days and the kids still loved us when we got home because we stopped at a lot of neat places along the way. Guess we’ll be pushing it a bit here and there on this trip to get to where we need to go but hey, life is meant to be an adventure and this will definitely be one big adventure!

See you when I get home!