Fact: Day Nineteen

Today was another driving day.

We went to lots of states. I have a bunch of pictures and one funny story to tell. Let's go.

Dwight getting ready to go...

Leaving New York for the last time on this trip--hello Pennsylvania (again).
Matt with Dwight.
Welcome to Ohio! My taking-pictures-in-motion skills are improving.
Cleveland rocks (which is the Drew Carey Show theme song I couldn't get out of my head the entire time we were here...)
I've been to Indiana before--when Jodie & Adrian lived here. It just wasn't the same without them...
Michigan was another touch-and-go state. We did make sure that we stayed here longer than we did in Rhode Island (because Rhode Island is smaller, of course).
Great Lakes, great times (apparently).
It was starting to get late by this point. Jim wanted to get close enough to Wisconsin that our drive tomorrow to Laura's won't be horrendous. Which meant the drive today got a bit painful near the end.
Haven't we already been in and left Ohio? Why is this picture here in the order of things? Visiting too many states....getting muddled....
I took a bunch of pictures of basically nothing along the highway to work on my motion photo skills. This one made us all laugh...because is it really necessary to have an Exit ZERO? Doesn't it deserve something better than the absence of a number?



We stopped for the night in Rockford, Illinois.

And now my little story from the day.

At one point, we swapped seats and Will was in the front seat with Jim. I was right behind Jim on the middle bench with Matt and Rach was in the back seat (referred to in our house as the back-back) with Jourdan.

Matt turned to me after being quiet for a minute and we had this conversation:

Matt: Mom, would you trade seats with me?
me: Sure, why?
Matt: (pause) Well. (pause) I've been thinking. If the van suddenly split down the middle, I'd really like to be on the side with the steering wheel.

The perfect story of life with Matt Parker.