Last Trip of 2009

I had so much fun seeing so many new and different things over the past 4 months. I am so glad that I got the chance to go with Richard and I can't wait to go again. I have been to 16 states that I had never been to before. We have our favorites and then we have some that we hate. No offense to anyone......we just don't like going there. Our favorite state is Colorado. It is beautiful. We also love New York. Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut is gorgeous also. We may have not been able to see everything that we would have liked to see since we were in the truck, but we plenty.

The new states that I got to see were.......

Massachusetts was the only state that we got to see for the first time together. He had already been to all of the other states before I ever went with him.

This was my last trip for right now. Decided to stay home during the winter and take care of our babies. Richard has a new job with Maverick.....a flatbed company. He starts Sunday December 13. He is very excited about it. He is actually already at Maverick. They were nice enough to put him in their hotel for the week since he was able to get there before his start date. He should be able to come home every weekend. We are so excited that he will be home more often. Also he will be staying in the southeast the majority of the time, but more than likely all of the time. This has been an awesome experience, and I hope for many more!!

A looong but fun trip!

This trip started in Amarillo, Texas and ended in Springfield, Massachusetts. Then from there to Odessa, Texas and then home!

We made another trip to The Big Texan Steakhouse. It is so very yummy. While we were there we had to walk in front of the web cam so that we could wave at my mom and dad who were watching on the Internet. We also saw a guy eat the 72 ounce steak challenge. If you can eat a 72 ounce steak, 3 fried shrimp, baked potato, salad, and a dinner roll within 1 hour, you get it for free. If not it cost you 72 dollars. The guy ate the whole thing with a few minutes to spare and then ate dessert and drank a whole pot of coffee. I don't know how he did it.

72 ounce steak stats.........

Klondike Bill...a professional wrestler ate 2 of the dinners back in 1960.

The oldest person to eat the steak was a 69 year old grandmother.

The youngest person was an 11 year old boy.

Frank Pastore...a former Cincinnati Reds pitcher ate the meal in 21 minutes in February 1976, he held onto that record for 21 years. On May 3, 1987 he ate the meal in 9 and 1/2 minutes.

That record was broken by the current champ Joey Chestnut on March 24, 2008. He ate the meal in 8 minutes and 52 seconds.

A 500 pound Bengal tiger ate the steak only in less than 90 seconds.

If you are ever in Amarillo, Texas on Historical Route 66, you must stop by and eat and visit the gift shop. You will not be disappointed.

Me sitting in the BIG rocking chair

Richard sitting in the BIG rocking chair!
Sitting on the boot outside the Big Texan
A 6 pt buck in the woods at a rest area in Pennsylvania, it walked almost right up to the truck!
NEW YORK
to the far right of the picture is the Statue of Liberty and to the far left is the Empire State Building.

Empire State Building

New York Giants Stadium

Empire State Building....and yes that is a plane to the right. That was scary!

New York City from the G W Bridge

New York City and Hudson River from the G W Bridge

New York Toll and all the crazy drivers

Connecticut Shore......I was not trying to get a picture of the toilet I promise

Connecticut

Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford

Springfield, Massachusetts

an old neighborhood that we drove thru

"stacked houses" in Massachusetts. I only know that is what they call them because I am addicted to HGTV, and I have seen several on there.....

On the way back thru Connecticut..........

IKEA building......thought it was so neat!!

cemetery in New York, right outside of The Bronx.........look how close they are buried!!

The G W Bridge

and again!

Appalachian Mountains in Virginia

Beautiful sunset

Appalachian Mountains

We finally arrive in Odessa, TX, head back to Amarillo and then home. We were coming thru Oklahoma City and heard this loud awful noise.....scared me to death.

This is what we found.......

New York (1st time)

We passed New York City on the way to New Jersey after dark, so I didn't get to see much, but I did see this....

"Grandpa Moon"

The next morning, we crossed the Hudson River again, this time I could actually tell we were crossing a river.
New York City, as close as we could get, I hope in the very near future, we will actually get to go to New York City!

The Empire State Building

October

We had to make an unexpected trip home due to our sweet little Emma getting sick. It was so hard to loose such an important part of our family. I wanted to stay home with our other doggies, but Richard would not leave me there by myself. He said that I would be spend the whole time looking out the back door crying because Emma was not out there, and he would have been right. So off we went...........

Fall is here.....this was somewhere in Illinois

Beautiful trees under St Louis Arch

Our first trip was to Colorado...one of our favorite places! Colorado had just had a big snow fall, but by the time we got there it was almost 60 degrees, but somehow, they still had a bunch of white stuff on the ground.........

We were amazed! In Alabama, if we had this much snow on the ground it would have to at least be 30 degrees. It was so pretty! We thought for sure that there would be even more snow in Denver, but nope there was none, but you can see the snow on the mountain tops.

It did start snowing the next morning, and it wasn't 60 degrees either, it was 28 and oh so very cold!

Rocky Mountains

The clouds that brought the snow!

the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, could not see the tops, because of the clouds and snow!

We just LOVE the mountains!

Left the Rocky Mountains and ventured into the Appalachian Mountains heading towards New Jersey!

Fog rolling in over the mountains!

Philadelphia

Downtown Philly

Phillies Stadium......during the world series. This is the trip that I learned not to wear my I love New York tshirt while in Pennsylvania. I got some really ugly looks in Wal Mart!