Final Stats

9 months
17, 500 Miles on Toyota
3000 miles on Skoda Roomster
15 train rides in France and Spain
8 bus rides in Spain
39 States Visited
4 European Countries
10 Bags of Cheese Flavored Popcorn
1 Set of Tires
1 Set of Brakes
1 Fat Lip
6 nights of camping in the rain
20 pounds of pasta eaten
40 bottles of wine consumed
50 chocolate croissants eaten
100 miles of driving out of our way
1 bout of the flu
6 modes of transportation
Zero Speeding Tickets
No Fights

An Experience of a Lifetime-Priceless

Roby and Patti's Radical Sabbatical

Roby and I have decided to live "lightly". Come along for the journey through our trials and tribulations. This blog is posted with the most current adventure first. So, scroll to the bottom if you want to start from the beginning. Each entry has a continuous slideshow of photos for your viewing pleasure. If you double click on the photos it will take you to our photo web page and you are able to see enlarged versions. We welcome comments and any building tricks.

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Saying Goodbye to the "Yota"

Washington DC

July 13th through 16th

After a quick stopover in Connecticut we headed down I-95 straight for the city. 7 hours later we were at the front door of my sister Jill’s house in Upper Marlboro MD just outside of DC. We were excited to see her and Kirk along with our nieces Claire and Aubrey. Not much planned just going to spend some time with them and get our packs ready because we were leaving the car with them for safekeeping while we are in Europe. We had last minute supply shopping to do and finalize our first leg of our trip.

Roby and I braved it and took the girls (ages 3 and 5) for an entire day by ourselves. After a brief episode because we were not able to work the DVD player in the car at first, the rest of the day went rather smoothly. We entertained them on the swings at the park, took them for ice cream and even braved a shopping trip to Walmart with him. The next day we were heading to NYC for the final stop on our 4 month journey through the United States. Kirk dropped us off at the metro station and we were off.

It was a quick two day stay but we had a great time hanging out and will catch up with them in Philly on our way back to pick up our car so we will get to spend more time with them.



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