In 2001 for our vacation, we went on a unplanned road trip. We just jumped on the interstate and drove north. We made it to:

Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Washington DC, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.

New York and New Jersey -

While we were in New Jersey, we visited with an online friend, Parry Aftab. She had just gotten back from a trip to Singapore on business. We did not know it when we called her to tell her we were in the area, but she had an appearance at a school to talk about internet safety. We video taped the younger students and got a few good pictures of the older students while we were there. While we were visiting Parry, we got a chance to see some of the beautiful sites of New York and New Jersey. From Parry's house you could see a great panoramic view of Manhattan. At sunrise, her view looks like a post card.

The next day, we went to the Statue of Liberty, what else are southerners going to do when they to the north? We went from the Jersey side of the river and got a picture of the view from the parking lot of the Fairy that took us to Ellis Island and Liberty Island. We also got a great shot of Lady Liberty herself.

Pennsylvania -

TwinAngel is also a friend from online that visited us when she was in our area in late 2000. So we couldn't pass up the opportunity to see her again when we went to her area. TwinAngel's house is on a lake that froze over this winter. (sorry if we sound amazed, we aren't used to snow and ice) The night that we stayed with her, it snowed 3 1/2 inches. That is so much more than either of us have ever seen that the sight was just amazing. She had some lovely deer that hang out in her back yard too.

While we did forget to get pictures of TwinAngel and her husband Ron, we did remember to get a nice pic of Max, their ever-energetic pup.

North Carolina -

We are both Nascar fans but Gambler is kind of a nut about it. He found out we were going to be passing Mooresville, NC and said we had to stop at the race shops. We took pics of all the team signs we saw and even got a few pictures of some of the cars.

During the final lap of the 2001 Daytona 500, Dale Earnhardt was killed in a crash in turn four. Two weeks later his shop was still a place of mourning.

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