Last night was an awesome time with Todd and some more of his friends. We had some outstanding pizza from a family owned restaurant where you have to reserve your dough ahead of time. This place has been around for a generation or more and has been making the same style pie from […]

Major blog changes today with respect to the formatting and the like. Brendan is going to see Matthew, I got an appointment with a Yamaha shop to take a look at the bike but I think I need to get some oil from gas station before I can really bring the bike anywhere. […]

Travel did not go as planned as we had to nix the scenic route in favor of faster highway driving. Our packing is still not olympic speed, though it is getting better. The biggest thing though was the rain that came down like it owned the place… right after we’d locked ourselves outside […]

Kait and Ryan were kind enough to take our extra crap and hang onto it for a while until they can bring it home for us. What a clutch move! I have decided to create a title for people like Kait, Ryan, Erica, Justin and those people that we have not yet stayed […]

Winding down here in NYC is always bittersweet. The city itself is all the good things that you hear about but it just seems to suffer from a lot of litter and general filth. Add that to the millions of people who squeeze in there together and I think that it will always […]

Another NYC theme is street fairs. This one was nice because we had the whole afternoon to enjoy it. Music of every kind littered the streets and food of every flavor was in every other booth. I really love the atmosphere that these street fairs bring out. It shows off so […]

After some serious organization and culling, I’ve got most of my gear whittled back down toward what I had intended on bringing and have separated many of the items that got thrown in during the hurried pack…afraid of leaving something behind. The post office is closed here and the time that we keep budgeting […]

Nintendo Wii. Okay, I know I’m late to the party. I know video games may seem antithetical to the road trip itself, BUT! The Wii is pretty f’n cool. It’s ability to bring people together in a social environment is clearly it’s greatest advantage. I remember in middle school […]

On the way home from the pub last night, I was amazed to find that in this little area of somerset, all of my needs were going to be met. I had quite the list of to do items-as mentioned…on the plate- and every store front that we passed, another opportunity to get something […]

When we finally left a day and a half late, it was nice to have my family in the driveway on the way out. I do owe my dad an apology for tearing off without adequate patience for more pictures but it was definitely nice have everyone there. Patti and George Breen (Neighbors […]