Friday, March 25, 2016

Spring break: Final thoughts

We arrived home this afternoon after eight (8!) days on the road – a true family road-trip adventure. A few statistics, for those keeping score at home …

Miles driven in 2013 Honda Odyssey (aptly named for this trip!): 2,268
Colleges visited: 3
Colleges with better on-campus track facilities than Marist visited: 3
Colleges with outdoor tracks visited: 3
Colleges with indoor tracks visited: 2 (including one with two different indoor tracks!)
Family members visited: 4 (side note: we made a pit stop in Syracuse yesterday to visit our old friend and former school record holder Mike Melfi, class of 1999, see photo to the left)
States visited: 9
Nights in a hotel: 5
Gas station stops (for gas): 5
Gas station stops (for bathroom/food): Too many to remember
Grateful Dead songs/concerts listened to on Sirius XM: Too many to remember
Cups of coffee consumed: Way too many to remember
Waffle Houses visited: 4 (was aiming for better than that!)
Nerves frayed on long hauls between stops: Many!
Laughs and memories made along the way: Enough to last a lifetime, hopefully.

It’s good to be back home. Time for rest? NOT! How about a 6:30 a.m. van departure for Monmouth for tomorrow’s meet? More driving! Yay!

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