The United States is Really Big

I’ve been working on our itinerary and I’ve learned one thing: this is a really big country. Initially, I had planned on driving all over the country and seeing anything and everything. However, time is too short and the country’s too big.

So what are we going to miss? For one thing, we’re not going to be able to make it to the northeast. All of the great spots like Boston, New York, Washington, DC. Worst of all, we won’t be able to make it to Cooperstown.

We’re also going to miss most of the Atlantic Coast. That means we’ll miss Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina.

At first I was upset about what we were going to miss, but then it dawned on me that there is an awful lot we are going to get to see and experience. We’re going to get to see a lot of Florida over 7-8 weeks. We’ll be in Texas for five weeks, Arizona for three weeks and California for four weeks. We’re going to be staying in Yosemite, Glacier, Rocky Mountain and Yellowstone National Parks. We’re going to see parts of the country that we’ve never seen before.

I guess it’s all in your perspective. You can either focus on the positive or you can focus on the negative. I’m usually a glass-is-half-full kind of guy. In that spirit, I’m going to focus on all of the great places we’re going to see. It’s going to be a great trip.