Days 13-15 Wrapping up

A Facebook post of mine:  "We're on our way home now from an epic family vacation.  I am blown away at all we got to see, learn about, and enjoy. I am amazed at the people who went out of their way to compliment us on our family, and take photos with our kids.  We even had a hotel employee comp us an awesome upgrade to a huge suite.  The memories we have made have been priceless.  But my favorite part had to have been the growth in our children as individuals and the bonding they had to each other.♥️"

We loved this trip!!!  

All of it went exceptionally well. 

The drive home was not as fun.  We had over 2000 miles to cover.  Once all the major sights were seen, we were quite anxious to get home.  Perhaps a little too anxious :)

Yep, Steve got pulled over.  Just a warning though.

We took a southern route home and covered several new states.  We stayed the night in St. Luis Missouri and Denver Colorado on the drive home.  We liked both cities. 

Here are all the states we visited during this trip in order we first saw them:

Wyoming

Nebraska

Iowa

Illinois

Indiana

Ohio

Pennsylvania

New York

Massachusetts

Rhode Island

Connecticut

New Jersey

Delaware 

Maryland

Virginia

west virginia

Kentucky

Missouri

kansas

colorado.

20 in all!  

With 5 other states all our children have been in, (Utah, Idaho, California, Nevada & Oregon,) all of them have been to at least half of the 50 states.  Other states on previous years we've been to, not all of us, are Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Washington, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Hawaii, Alaska, Vermont, New Hampshire.

We put nearly 5,800 miles on our car this trip!