The End

Tara and I left NYC on 06/22/09 and returned on 08/30/09. To save everyone time counting on their calenders that is 70 days away from our apartment. We spent 48 days on the road this summer, 16.5 days at her parents in Austin, Texas and 6.5 days at the beach house in North Carolina. We traveled through 24 states in that time, staying in most of them at least one night (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware.) We camped 15 nights, stayed at friends 2 nights, a Bed and Breakfast 1 night, 3 nights at a La Quinta Inn, Doubletree Hotel, Garden Cottages Motel and Holiday Inn, 2 nights at a Best Western and Ramada Inn, and 1 night at a Hyatt Regency, Budget Host Inn, Red Lion Hotel, Snider's Rustic Inn, Little America Hotel, Aquarius Inn Motel, America's Best Value Inn, Hilton Inn, and Hotel Preston. We drove at least 11,046 miles as recorded on our GPS unit (Nuvi), though there were a few trips here and there when it was not plugged in and recording the distance.

As the sayings go "All good things must end," and "All endings are just new beginnings." With that in mind, Tara and I decided on the way up to NYC on Sunday to start a new adventure. On Monday, we went to the City Clerks Office to obtain our Marriage License, and in a limo on Friday, September 4th, 2009 (Tara's birthday) at 10:45 AM we returned to take our vows as witnessed by our friends Sonja Robinson and Ryan, Kirsten, and Millie Matyjasik. We were back in our apartment as a wedded couple by noon. We changed and walked to 2nd Ave to eat lunch at Nancy's Pig Heaven before going to Chinatown to spend $15 on two rings that will due until Leon Mege can make our official set. That night we dined at King's Carriage House with Ryan and Kirsten Matyjasik, Tom and Sonja Robinson, and Paul, Annie, and Lily Byerly to celebrate our new beginning.

Thank you to all who followed our adventure.