Okay, considering that we're a week into October, this is probably a little bit delayed, but better late than never, right? Anyway, for your perusing pleasure, here's my summer in numbers and pictures.
This summer I:
- spent time in 11 states (IL, WI, MI, IA, MO, NY, NJ, PA, MD, VA, WV) -- 13 if I cheat and count drive-throughs IN and DE-- and the District of Columbia
- saw a baseball game in seven stadiums-- 8 1/2 if I count the long periods of time I spent inspecting the outside of Comerica in Detroit and the under-construction new Busch Stadium in St. Louis.
- visited 4 of the top 10 and 7 of the top 20 metropolitan areas in the country (Chicago, NYC, DC, Detroit, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, St. Louis)
- traveled by plane, train, bus, car, and four cities' public transportation systems
- slept in 12 different beds and one tent
- took more than 700 digital pictures
create your own personalized map of the USA ... and did it all in a little 800 by 300 square mile rectangle, from St. Louis to southwestern Wisconsin to Washington DC to New York City.