Jonathan's Road Trip

  Day #2 route On the second day of travel, we drove from Washington DC to Myrtle Beach, SC. It was a long day in the car because we traveled 428 miles.  During our trip, we visited three more states - Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina.  As we were leaving Washington DC, we drove past a couple more Washington DC sites.  We were able to get a little closer to the US Capitol Building (well....sort of - as you can see there are huge fences around the building and military vehicles for security purposes). We also passed by the Pentagon Building which is the headquarters for our country's Department of Defense.  Can you guess how many sides the Pentagon building has? US Capitol Building Pentagon Everyone was a little disappointed that the weather was kind of yucky during our trip.  There was a lot of snow that made driving difficult for my dad and there was also a lot of rain that made it tough to see the sites as we traveled through the different stat...

Our route for Day #1 On the first day of our travel, we drove 358 miles from Simsbury, Connecticut to Washington, D.C.  If you include our starting point of Connecticut, we were in five different states in one day! That is 5/50th of the states in our country.  State # 2 - New York State #3 - New Jersey You could see the skyline of NYC from NJ State #5 - Maryland State #4 - Delaware By the time we arrived in Washington, it was fairly late.  We also knew that there would be a long car drive the next day, so we couldn't spend too much time sightseeing.  We did, however, make sure that we saw some things that were close to our hotel.   Chinatown - Washington DC Chinatown - Washington DC Yummy Chinese food in honor of Chinese New Year Did you know that our first day of travel was also Chinese New Year?  Washington D.C. has a section of town called Chinatown.  In order to recognize the Chinese New Year, we walked to Chinatown and picked up some Chinese ...

We are on our way! My parents decided to make distance learning a very unique experience for me and my sister, Madeline.  After our half day of school on Friday, February 12th, we got in the car and prepared for an exciting journey. Although I wasn't looking forward to DAYS in the car, I was excited to get to our final destination and see some new things along the way.  I hope you enjoy my travel journal.