Drive across USA

Who are on this trip - my dear sister, her two kids, my daughter and I

States that we drove past -
July 1: Texas-Arkansas-Tennessee
July 2: Tennessee-Tennessee
July 3: Tennessee-Virginia
July 4: Virginia-Cincinnati-Pennsylvania
July 5: Pennsylvania-New York-Massachusetts-New Hampshire
July 16: Massachusetts-New York
July 17: New York-Ohio
July 18: Ohio

July 19: Ohio-Indiana

July 20: Indiana-Illinois

July 21: Illinois-Wisconsin

July 22: Wisconsin-Minnesota

July 23: Minnesota-Missouri

July 24: Missouri-Kansas

July 25: Kansas-Texas

Most beautiful beach - Gloucester, MA

Most delicious meal - fresh cooked lobster and home cooked food (thanks to my sister's friend)

Longest stay - MA at my sister's secondary school friend's house; July 5-16

Best places for kids - Story Land at White Mountain, NH; Boston Children's Museum and Indiana Children's Museum; Milwaukee Children's Museum; Wichita Science Center "Exploration Place, Inc."

Most enjoyable picnic - Monoca Bay in Wisconsin where the kids feed bread to ducks and we enjoyed the cool afternoon breeze

Most comfortable stay - The Seasons at White Mountain condominium resort (about $110 per night)

Favorite food on the road - pretzels and raisins

Favorite drink on the road - water, apple juice and 3-in-1 Ipoh Style Coffee!

Favorite songs - Zhou Jie Lun; Jay Chou

Favorite dramas - Coffee Prince (Korean) and Fated to Love You (Taiwanese)

Who else joined us - my husband on July 23 in Minnesota, Praise be to Allah SWT

Thoughts about this trip - who would have thought that two moms would have this crazy idea of driving across USA with three energetic and cranky kids under 6 years old? And who would have thought that we survived so far?