I’m pretty sure that the road trip Izzy and I were sketching out wasn’t the best planned evolution. However, things are changing even before we depart. We had originally planned to spend two months camping out of the minivan. It took a few weeks longer to sell the house than we expected, and Izzy was starting to get eager to start school in Sweden and our trip plan was shortened to a month and we were going to start out by heading to DC and then Florida on Sunday.

Well, it is Monday morning, and we are still in Connecticut. It has been a pretty hectic few days with all the things going on here, but that story is neither for the blog nor is mine to tell. The big change is that our journey gained a new traveler as well. Instead of just the two of us, my firstborn will most likely be joining us for the journey. Instead of heading south, we will face north and make a left turn and head west. Hopefully tomorrow night we will be in Pennsylvania near Cherry Springs State Park. From there we will head to St. Louis and stay with my brother in Webster Groves. Our tentative plans from there will be to head west to Colorado and we haven’t planned past then.

We switched hotels on Saturday. Our original hotel didn’t have rooms available for Saturday night, so we moved up to a Comfort Inn near Lisbon Landing in Griswold. The room is a bit smaller, but the hotel and pool are much newer. There is even a hot tub! And, for Izzy, they also have a waffle maker for breakfast. We’ve been trying to get out and keep active. Yesterday was a trip to Gillette Castle and a ride on the Chester-Hadlyme Ferry. Today will, hopefully, be wrapping things up here and Izzy is going to hang out with her friend after her friend gets home from school this afternoon. We’ll just have to find something to do this morning. But first, I’ll let Izzy sleep in as long as she wants. She was pretty tired by the end of the day yesterday.