Montana Jones

Road trip summary

Hours spent in the vehicle: 63

Average speed: 61.5 MPH

Total miles: 5349

Nights spent in hotel rooms: 13

Longest day: 640 miles. West Montana to East Montana.

Hours spent in a ninth grade classroom: ¾.

Old friends I got to meet for lunch: 1

Most state lines crossed in one day: 6. (Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, Pensylvania, West Virginia, Ohio.)

Best truck stop breakfast: Cafe on exit 307 of interstate 94 through North Dakota.

Most humbling moment: Nephew kicking my ass seven times in a row at Star Wars Battlefront on the Xbox.

Coolest thing I saw: The Wright brothers airplane.

Most interesting social encounter: Flirting with the girl at the bar in Ohio.

Best beer: Moose Drool, waiting right here for me in good ol' Montana just as soon as I got back in the state.

Flattest most boring landscape: Illinois.

Best mountains (east of the Mississippi): West Virginia.

Best mountains (west of the Mississippi): Montana!

Bumpiest roads: North Dakota.

Best home cooked meal: The M_'s farm in Ohio. Fresh milk from the cow, homemade butter, a pot roast that melts in your mouth and a slice of homegrown tomato so thick and meaty I had to cut it with a knife.

Worst city traffic: Washington D.C. (Honorable mention: Minneapolis.)

Best city traffic: Fargo.

Cutest waitresses: North Dakota.

Dad's best one liner: "If the toilet paper was any thinner it would only have one side."

Labels: best of, dad, hotel, miles, miscellaneous, nephew, road trip, states, summary, vacation, vehicle, Washington D.C.

Posted by: Montana Jones / 6:47 PM 3 comments

National Air and Space Museum

Me:

Does everyone have their cell phone? I'm pretty sure we are gonna get split up.

MM:

Got mine. I guess the plan is to split into groups. Niece is with S_, grandpa is with me and nephew is with MJ.

Me:

Sweet, the buddy system. Ready to hit it buddy?

Nephew:

Yup.

Me:

All right, let's see. Over here is. Oooooh! Lookit that! That's a Viking lander! That is one of the first probes that they landed on mars.

Nephew:

Yeah, that's the camera and that's the scooper and that is the radio antenna.

Me:

Ooooh! Lookit that! They have Spaceship One here. That is the first privately owned spaceship. And it is right next to, ooooh lookit, it's the Spirit of St. Louis.

Nephew:

Hey, look at that.

Me:

Ooooh! That one is the first plane to go Mach 2. That's cool!

Later...

Me:

Oh wow, lookit that! That is a P-51.

Nephew:

That is a pretty fast plane.

Me:

Yeah! That is a pretty fast plane, it has one heck of an engine in it. And ooooh, lookit that! It's a Japanese zero.

Later...

Me:

Oh, check it out!. It's the Wright brothers plane. Cool! Do you know what this is?

Nephew:

Yeah, it's one of those old planes.

Me:

Not just any old plane, this is the first airplane ever. Oooh, lookit that.

Later...

Nephew:

Hey, it's a moon lander.

Me:

What? Where? Ooooh! Lookit that! That is so cool!

Later...

MM:

So how is your day going.

Me:

This is so cool! It's a total kid in a candy store day for me. I hope nephew is keeping up with me.

Nephew:

I am. Can we go see that galaxy thing next?

Me:

Oh yeah.

Labels: aircraft, airplane, conversation, cool, museum, nephew, spaceship, Washington D.C.

Posted by: Montana Jones / 5:06 AM 0 comments