Yes this was our reaction!

YES this was our reaction when our daughter (and last child) announced she wanted to go to upstate New York to college! Now what?

Well, all the college stuff we had been collecting the last year would just have to be shipped, right?
NO. Lauren and Ed suggested that it might be fun to drive ALL THE WAY TO NEW YORK! After a week or so of thinking about it I warmed up to the idea, "sure, why not". Then just as I was getting used to the idea they hit me with another idea, "why not rent an RV"? NO WAY, that's not my idea of a vacation, cooking and cleaning across the united states. (I won)
So plans were begun for the trip. We joined AAA and picked up a map of the United States and started to mark all the wonderful things we could see and do. Now this was fun! It was decided that on the way there we would take the lower route, Fwy 40 and on the way back we would take the higher route (Fwy 90 or so).

Our journey will begin on August 10th. First stop, the Grand Canyon.