Driving West Part I!

Hi from Wyoming!

I thought South Dakota was beautiful -- but Wyoming is just as majestic. My Mom and I have finished six days of driving at the moment, traveled a little over 2,400 miles west and despite how tiring it all is, we're seeing so much beauty. I didn't expect how exhausting driving and navigating would be, and it's tricky to stay awake in the evenings, but I've been reminded through traveling that it was the unpredictability of each day in Scotland, the scenery and people and new experiences that caused me to write and blog here, and it's time to resurrect travel writing!

So far: 2 rainbows (New York and Wyoming) spotted. A billion cows. Many horses. Countless deer. A bunny. A mouse. 

Departing New Hampshire! 

Vermont was it's usual beautiful self and New York was wide but pretty. We spent our first night at an Airbnb in Vernon, New York, in the middle of the state. We loved the spacious backyard pictured above. 

We also LOVED Seneca Falls. The gorgeous and moving museum is part of the national park system (freeeee!) and can be absorbed in about an hour. The original church where the 1848 convention for women's rights occurred is next door and pictured on the top right.

A Falls trip that was less planned was Niagra Falls. I like to think I know geography, but somehow I didn't know we'd be within 30 miles of it. It didn't feel right to miss it. The falls were beautiful, enormous, and refreshing (thanks to the mist!).

From there, we swung through a small slice of Pennsylvania and stayed in Ashtabula, Ohio on Lake Erie. 

Pennsylvania!

The next day had us sailing across the midwest through states neither of us had visited before. Corn fields and flatness dominated the landscape. In Indiana, I knew the University of Notre Dame in South Bend was close by. We ate our lunch by the enormous Alumni stadium but found that as visitors to the campus passing through, not too much was accessible. We battled Chicago traffic by going far around the city, but found it still took a few hours at rush hour on a Friday afternoon to clear the outskirts of the city. We stayed in Rockton, IL a few miles from the Wisconsin border that evening. 

More to come soon!