With the holidays of course there’ve been cards + gifts in the mail recently, so I’ve been thinking a lot about friends + family. Sometimes it seems like so many of them are far away and I wonder how it got to be like this, that we can’t see lots of our favorite people as often as we’d like (even some of our NYC friends, though of course we see them more often than the non-NYCers).<\/p>\n
In high school I had this vague dreamy hope that one day I would live in a big house with all of my friends. And then I went to college and made more friends, but it was no big deal because the high school friends would like the college friends so we’d just need a bigger house, right? And then the grad school friends and the work friends and…<\/p>\n
Of course that plan is unrealistic. I mean, not everyone wants to live in NYC, and I don’t want to live in many other places. Plus partners, jobs, kids, schools — everything is infinitely more complicated now.<\/p>\n
So then I thought, well, what we need is a really long road trip. Like 4-6 weeks or so. Then we could visit everyone. Here’s how it’d go:<\/p>\n
Brooklyn to Philly
\nPhilly to Delaware
\nDelaware to D.C.
\nD.C. to North Carolina
\nNorth Carolina to Orlando
\nOrlando to Miami
\nMiami to Houston
\n(maybe a quick stop in New Orleans on the way, even though no one we know is there)
\nHouston to Dallas
\nDallas to Southern California
\n(with stops at the Grand Canyon, Mojave, Death Valley, some cool stuff in New Mexico…hey, this is a dream trip, I can go whatever convoluted way I want to!)
\nSouthern California to San Francisco
\nSan Francisco to Reno
\nReno to Portland
\nPortland to Seattle
\nSeattle to St. Louis
\n(via Glacier National Park, Yellowstone, the Badlands, the Corn Palace, Wall Drug, and Minneapolis)
\nSt. Louis to Chicago
\nChicago to Indiana
\nIndiana to Cincinnati
\nCincinnati to Pittsburgh
\nPittsburgh to Vermont
\n(via Niagara Falls and Ithaca)
\nVermont to New Hampshire
\nNew Hampshire to Boston
\nBoston to Connecticut
\nConnecticut to Brooklyn<\/p>\n
…plus a quick flight to London and back.<\/p>\n
Whew! After that trip odds are I would never want to get into a car again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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