Regardless, here's a little bit of what I did this spring:
It was a lot of fun and extremely tiring but I learned a lot and was a great experience. After finishing out the school year, Marisa flew out and we went for a little drive:
We had a ton of fun and took lots and lots of pictures (well for the first half of the trip at least).
Saturday May 14th: Picked Marisa up in Anchorage from the airport and drove to Alyeska (45min south of Anchorage) for the night.
Sunday May 15th: Drove down to Seward, AK and went on a Kenai Fjords wildlife boat cruise where we saw tons and tons of wildlife then drove back to Alyeska after a short glacier hike and seeing a moose and a bear.
Monday May 16th: Drove up to Anchorage to visit the polar bear in the zoo then continued up to Fairbanks to pack my stuff up for the summer.
Tuesday May 17th: Left Fairbanks for the summer and entered Canada... then drove... very very far. Slept in the car that night in Teslin due to not being able to find any place open and hit the road extremely early the next day.
Wednesday May 18th: Drove from Teslin to Prince George and started to get a little sick of the Canadian Rockies (lots of curvy steep roads)
Thursday May 19th: Made it back into the US with only a slight border crossing mishap (we got in the wrong lane...) and stopped in Seattle for the midnight premiere of Pirates 4
Friday May 20th: Drove down the Pacific Coast highway into Oregon and then entered California after dark and stayed in Redding
Saturday May 21st: Got up early to make a wine tour in Napa Valley at Del Dotto Vineyards where we drank really fancy wines straight from the barrels in the caves. Then crossed the golden gate bridge and into San Francisco where we went out on a sunset cruise on the bay and saw alcatrez!
Sunday May 22nd: Drove down the coast a little more and made it down to Santa Monica to stay with Will for the night. Ventured out a little to see the pier and the beaches at night.
Monday May 23rd: Got free passes into Disneyland and spent most of the day there! Watched the sunset back in Santa Monica on the beach then sampled In N' Out burger for dinner.
Tuesday May 24th: After getting the oil changed in Beverly Hills (where they surprised me with complementary wash and vacuum) we headed out (only to get stuck in traffic for a few hours) and make it to Vegas around 9pm where we stayed at New York, NY and went out for the night.
Wednesday May 25th: All you can eat breakfast buffet followed by the New York, NY roller coaster then back on the road through the dessert, crossing through Arizona and into Utah. Got in to Salt Lake City and took it easy for the night.
Thursday May 26th: Stopped by the Salt Lake Olympic center and crossed into Wyoming and finally into Nebraska for the night.
Friday May 27th: Long haul through Nebraska, Iowa and Illinois where we stayed in Chicago.
Saturday May 28th: Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and finally New York where we got back into Syracuse around 11pm
Tons of pictures to see from the trip. It was such an adventure and we had a great time... and managed not to kill each other.
Since returning to Syracuse for the summer I've been working a lot but managed to get together with friends in NYC for the weekend, visit Marisa's sister in Albany and go up to the camp on Raquette Lake a few times. Here's a couple sunset pictures from the weekend of the 4th:
