The Begining

It's the first of June, and our summer is about to begin. We've been tentatively planning our cross-country road trip since November (October maybe?), and I can hardly believe it's actually going to happen. My last day of work is in two days, and after over two years at this place, I'm SO ready to be moving on to bigger and better things! And my goodness, do we have things planned!

Like I said, my last day of work is June 3, and I have a little under a week to get the house deep-cleaned and use up the perishable food before we head to Coeur D'Alene for the first part of our trip. We'll hang out there for a couple of days before heading to visit Jewls in Ashland...taking the long way through Seattle to drop my little sister off at the airport for her own summer adventure with our grandparents in Alaska on our way. We're planning on about 6 days there before Ian heads back to Moscow for a couple days while I go to Indianapolis with my sorority for a weekend. I get back into Spokane the day before our one-year anniversary, and then we hit the road!

The plan is to take I-90 until it ends in Boston. The official excuse is a family wedding in Rhode Island at the end of July...but honestly, when else in our lives aside from retirement are we going to get to do something like this? Ian starts upper-level ME classes in the fall, and I start law school...it's now or when we're 70.

We're hitting Boston, D.C., Jersey, Rhode Island, NYC, and hopefully Philadelphia. I've never been farther east than Chicago, and that was only the airport, and Ian hasn't been back since he was young, so we're so excited! We figure we should make the trip count while we have the chance! Plus, common advice is to enjoy yourself as much as possible the summer before law school, and we didn't have a honeymoon. I can't wait to see the Smithsonian, Ellis Island, (hopefully) a Broadway play, and all the monuments in D.C. (I'm a little bummed we aren't scheduling White House tours, but one of your goals is to keep our schedule fairly open. We're packing in activities, but we want it to be fun, not over scheduled), and I'm super stoked to meet my new East Coast family...only Ian's cousin Mike and Uncle Tom were able to make it over for our wedding, so I have a whole new family tree to get to know!

We hope to keep this updated as our trip progresses to let people know where we are and what we're up to, but for now it's bed time.

-Margret & Ian