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Hello. I’m talking about yesterday, again. I hope I can get to writing about the day it actually is sometime. today, though, we crossed into Canada! I’ll talk more about this in the next post. yesterday was our longest day of driving in our trip. we also experienced the worst traffic, and the most states passed through in one day. we passed through New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and all the way across Maine to the Canadian border. We stayed in a campsite near the border. the first two hours of that day, we only went 20 miles (32 km)! it was very long, but I had fun with what I did. Me and Laura watched Into the Spider-Verse, the first in a trilogy of spider-man movies that are animated to look like a comic book. I really liked it because there were six different Spider-people from across the multiverse, but it takes place in only one universe. It was awesome. I also started Star Wars ep. V: the Empire Strikes Back and I watched all of Detective Pikachu, but I watched that alone. we all listened to the Aru Shah audiobook together, and finished it. I read a Warriors book that I had gotten at a book fair we visited while we were in New York. I use Super Mario Bros. logic to refer to which book it is. for example, the first book in the first series is 1-1, the sixth book in the fourth series is 4-6, and for super editions I use the abbreviation WSE and an abbreviation of the title. for example, the Super Edition titled Yellowfang’s Revenge would be WSE-YFR. I read the third book in the sixth series, which sounds like a strange choice, but I have read all the main books along with a few super editions. i think i’m rambling about Warriors now.  I have a lot more to say, but all of it is about today. I’ll finish here. Until next time! – Colin

Hi! I’m writing about yesterday, and I will write a second post today about today later. yesterday, we were hanging out and visiting new York. Laura was doing a dance class with her teacher, Mrs. Elizabeth, and I was doing the Edge. the Edge is a 100-story tall building with a viewing platform on the side. the viewing platform has a glass floor on part of it, and slanted glass windows on the sides. it’s also open to the air, and when you’re on it you’re pretty much in the sky, so there are some very strong winds. it was really cool, but also a bit terrifying. I liked it nevertheless, so I had fun. once we came down, we looked for some souveniers, (Laura wasn’t with us here) and find out that the gift shop was out of snow globes. after finding that out, we went to a candy store nearby and bought a whole bunch of candy instead. I’m really enjoying mine. after we did that, we took a bit and went to an ice cream store nearby. I got two scoops of raspberry sorbet in a waffle bowl. a waffle bowl is a name for a bowl made out of waffle cone material that often has sprinkles around the edge. after you finish the ice cream in a waffle bowl, you can eat said bowl because it’s just a waffle cone in the shape of a bowl. that was a lot of information and a lot of the words “waffle” and “bowl”, but I hope you understand. we also took the New york Metro to get there, but it was very crowded. i really did not like it. we also did this walk that was like a nature walk, but it was on the top of an old aboveground train route so all the flowers were on beds, but they weren’t organized much. I took a lot of photos of these, but i’m not going to put them up here because there are WAY too many of them and also I haven’t uploaded them to my computer yet. I have very little left to say about day 8, so I’ll finish here. Bye! -Colin

Hello. sorry I’m posting this so late, but we had a big day yesterday, and 3/4 of the last post had vanished, so i was working on that instead of that day’s post. thankfully, that was the biggest thing that happened yesterday. yesterday we went through Maryland, Pennsylvania, and finished in new Jersey. nothing big happened yesterday, so I’ll give a bit of info on day 8 of the trip! if i didn’t, this would be a very short post. on day 8, we were staying in New Jersey to visit New York. New York is fun, but very crowded. I have decided that “busy city” is not my favourite environment at all. We have been to a really high up place called “the Edge”, went to get some really good ice cream, and walked through a nature trail that was on top of a building. I’ll give more details in the next post, so bye. this was a filler so that I didn’t accidentally forget a day altogether. okay, bye! -Colin

Hello! sorry I forgot to post yesterday. It was very late, and I wasn’t having the best day. yesterday we went to the Smithsonian national Air and Space museum! it was AWESOME!!! but first, the morning was kind of slow. it was a great day, and until we got to the line of the museum i was very happy. the line was very long. very very (very x10) long. however, it was moving very quickly so we got there in no time. in the museum, we saw the very first thing on display in the lobby: the model of the starship Enterprise that was used for the original Star Trek! it was lucky we got there when we did, because the model was all lit up and colorful! by the way, almost everything (excluding things like Voyager 1) were real! we went to two exhibits yesterday. the first one was called to the moon and was about getting to the moon, from the fantasies before we discovered it was possible to get to the moon. there was a variety of capsules there, like: the Freedom 7 capsule used during the Mercury missions that could hold one person; the capsule used during the Gemini missions that held two people; and the return capsule of Apollo 11. I was intruiged the most by the images and information of whet people thought the moon was like before they discovered what it was really like. there were three main periods of different views about what the moon was like. the first one was that the moon was very vibrant and full of life. i found that the stories at this point had two things in common: 1, the characters reached the moon by getting in a big cannonball and then launching the cannonball out of a really really really really big cannon; and 2, there were aliens there. the second thought was after the discovery that the moon couldn’t be full of life, and was that the moon was covered in jagged crater edges, broken mountain ranges, and shattered valleys. the final and correct view is that the moon is covered in valleys, craters, and mountains, but they were rounded from a constant storm of dust and meteorites from space. I liked seeing everything about this. there was also a display of a model of an LRV (Lunar Roving Vehicle) and a wheel and fender from a real one that was duct-taped together! DUC T-TAPED TOGETHER! ON THE MOON!!! the LRV was not a real one that has been on the moon because all the LRVs on the moon are still on the moon. OH! i forgot! there was a model of a T-70 X-wing on display above the stairs! it was very interesting because it was the real thing that was used while filming episode IX of Star Wars and there was a sign talking about it! I also spent a good 5 minutes explaining the various differences between the T-65 X-wing (what Luke Skywalker flew) and the T-70 (used after the Empire, was on display). after that, we moved on to the section about planets. there was a display made up of several screens on one of the walls and one and only one of the panels was rotated 180 degrees, meaning it was ypside down! it was hilarious!! there was then a display about Pluto. I read very deeply into the items about the moons of Pluto, and asked an attendant for more information. Pluto has five moons, one of which is very large in comparison: Charon. the other moons are as follows: Hydra, Styx, Nix, and Kerberos. all of these names have signifigance in Greek mythology. they are: Pluto is the god of the Underworld, and sometimes known as Hades; Kerberos is the 3-headed gurd dog of the underworld; Styx is the river a spirit must cross to access the Underworld; Charon is the boatman for the Styx; and Nix is a somewhat obscure goddess of darkness. Nix is a very fitting name for my D&D character as well, as my character is a rogue. to be clear, i named Nix BEFORE i learned about either the moon or the goddess.we then saw some stuff about the rovers on Mars, and i thought i should tell you this: the rover Opprotunity has lost power because there was too much dust on its solar panels. however, if the dust comes off somehow, Opporotunity should come back! after that, we visited a small exhibit about speed. my dad chose this one, and i wasn’t paying much attention to that. after we came home, we got a pizza and played Mystic Market, which is a very intruiging game that resembles the stock markets. i just like it because i like the game, not the stock markets. it was a very good day. i’m rambling now, so thanks for putting up with this. anyways, Goodbye! -Colin

Hello again! day 5 of our road trip- day 2 of our stay in DC- has been amazing! we visited the Spy Museum. it is a very large museum of international espionage artifacts. those were three very long words, but i expect you know what they all mean. the Spy Museum is an interactive museum where you are given a card with your espionage data on it- a fake ID that you need to remember to keep going- and then you could continue. I liked the Undercover Mission stations, where you tapped your card, and then did an activity that often involved needing to remember things correctly. they were sets of screens where you did those, along with other activitiees throughout the museum. one of these was a challenge where you had to hang onto a bar that suspended you a few inches of the ground and occasionally twitched. i did all 60 seconds that was required to be “successful”, and the operator told me only 1% of all visitors could do that! i enjoyed the museum thoroughly, but i started getting tired at the end of it and we rushed through the last 2 or 3. exhibitions, along with the spy store (gift shop). there was a variety of things i learned, but i can’t choose a favourite. if you ever end up in DC on a trip, i would recommend it, but it takes 2 to 3 hours on average, so don’t do it if you don’t have all day. we also stopped at a bookshop in the morning, and Laura got some books there. finally, we cooked a special Father’s Day Supper for Daddy- Breakfast for supper! I think you can figure out the photos. that’s all i can think of right now, so bye. Until next time! -Colin

Hi! Day 4 of our road trip is the first day we’ve been spending not on the road. we’ve stopped at a campground in Maryland that is very close to Washington D.C. we visited a whole bunch of places there today! First, we took the train to D.C., and then we went down to see the White House. we only saw it from a distance, and didn’t go inside. after that, we went to check out the many memorials around there. We are doing the Smithsonian museums on Monday, and we didn’t go there today. there are a lot of memorials in D.C., and we saw (I’m guessing) most of them today. we saw the Washingington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, the World War 2 Memorial, the Vietnam memorial, the Martin Luther King jr. memorial, the Korea memorial, and we saw but didn’t go to the Jefferson memorial. we also saw the Capitol building, but didn’t go in. this is a long list of things, and i think if I described all of them, this would be a very very very long post, so I’ll stop now. See you again tomorrow! -Colin

Hello again. Day 3 of our road trip has been a bit uneventful. Today we passed through Tennessee, Virginia, and are finishing up in Maryland. we’ll stay in Maryland for a few days while we visit Washington D.C. Today has been nice, but not exciting. Laura got me a new book called Strangeworlds Travel Agency, and it is really good. I definitely recommend it. We have kept listening to our Aru Shah audiobook, and it has also been really good. I have had to clarify names and such for my dad. the main interesting thing today has been that there was a wild cat (not a wildcat!) in the parking lot of a Macdonalds we stopped at for lunch. The scenery around us while we’re nearby the Eastern side of the Appalachian mountains is amazing! the hills are giant, and the rock walls in between some of them look like they’re not correctly oriented, no matter which direction I imagine them to be! I don’t have much else to talk about right now, so Bye! -Colin

Hello! Day 2 has been a bit more eventful than yesterday. We have left Mississippi and have gone through Alabama, a tiny bit of Georgia, and we will finish, and are currently in, Tennessee. I have been doing the same thing as yesterday, and I have finished 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea! the ending was a bit confusing, but it was good. On the road, it was raining very heavily while we were in Alabama, but it’s cleared up now. We have started to listen to an audiobook of Aru Shah and the End of Time. It’s my dad’s first time listening, and I, since I have read every book, so it is very funny seeing my dad’s reaction to parts I know end up a certain way. I’m getting tired now, so I’m going to end this here. please check out my photos from the trip below. Until my next post, bye! -Colin

Hello! The first day of our road trip has been good. we have gone through Texas, Louisiuana, and are now in Mississippi. We passed through the easternmost point of Texas. We have been listening to an audiobook of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,and I have been laying my new LEGO video game and reading 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne. It’s a great novel, and it’s also about 153 years old! We saw some very interesting things on the way here but didn’t make any notable stops. Although, there was a random statue of corn. I don’t know why it was there. We are now in Hattiesberg for the night. It was very rainy after we set up, though it is now subsided and a nice quiet night. I can’t think of anything else to say right now. Bye for now! -Colin

Today is the day before we leave to our road trip (hence the”day 0.5″ in the title). We’re finishing our packing, we’ve got our trailer, and we’ve been getting the last things done before we go. Tomorrow we will be starting off, but today we are finishing the getting ready. I feel like I’m just repeating myself, but that’s because there’s nothing really special happening today. I’m getting bored now. I’m going to go and finish packing. Thanks for reading my first post. Byeeeeeeeeeee! -Colin