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If you are interested in seeing pictures of our road trip, have a look here.

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I left Providence after a nice hot breakfast and a parking ticket. Apparently street parking between 2-5AM is illegal (not that there are signs to say that). I parked in an area that had 2 hour parking between 8AM and 6PM. I guess in Providence that implies no parking after 6PM. I am so glad that my car was not towed.It was raining of course as I pulled out of Providence (it didn't ever stop

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Today we met a very helpful group of people at Brown. The first person is the custodian on Evan's floor. She introduced herself and offered cleaning supplies, got him hangers, a mirror, a rug, and several lamps. She might even know of a used fridge he could get. She gave her phone number and said that if he ever needs directions or a ride to the grocery store to call.She also have great

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We packed up camp in the pouring rain, drove to Providence in the pouring rain, got Evan his room key (very lucky to find parking near by). Walked, in the pouring rain, to his residence. It is a big residence building with a door swipe card to let him in. Unfortunately it didn't work. So after waiting a while (in the pouring rain) someone else used the door and we got in behind them. His

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We have survived thirty plus hours of rain now. Yesterday was a very lazy day. We just hung out in the tent making sure not to touch the walls until we slept. Mid afternoon the heavy rain stopped and we ventured outside to create a cooking shelter and made some lunch. I tried a recipe for peach cobbler on a camp stove. It was hot and sweet and the peaches were good.We played with the water

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Here is Evan's account of our day at six flagsEven though the forecast Rachel and I saw last week, the weather was totally clear, rather too hot. Actually, it's very important fact because it was our big big "amusement park" day! Since we hadn't been a grocery store for a couple of days, we decided to just finish the leftovers – bacon, granolas with milk and tea – for our breakfast. Right before

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We are stuck in the tent in the pouring rain. This is the first rain we've had, so I'm not sure how water tight things are. Time will tell.I'm glad we're not packing up this morning. Still one more night at the circle c.Sent from my iPod

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We arrived safe and sound last night after a lot of stop and go (but mostly stop) traffic. Evan kept me sane by reading from a book he just purchased. It is a pretty funny story, so time passed rather quickly. The campground is more isolated from the real world than others we'd been to. It's 25 minutes to the nearest grocery store-a super walmart. Needless to say, we did not head out at 7pm

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Since Evan's orientation started this morning at 8:30 we were up at 6:30 getting things packed and getting on the road. It was a smooth drive into Providence. I was anticipating some rush hour traffic, but since the roads were relatively clear we got to Brown sooner than planned. We managed to get into a parking lot on campus which saved us the 15 minute walk up a huge hill (imagine St.

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Evan's going to write up the events of our day at six flags, so I'll keep this short.It was a great day overall, despite running into three rides that had "technical difficulties". The first one had a wasps nest on the track, the second one we didn't wait to find put what the matter was, and the third had a seatbelt issue.We rode all the big rides, including Bizarro which we rode twice, once

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Since we crashed so late last night, we slept in until the last possible minute. We kind of have set up and take down procedures perfected. We can be awake, cleaned up, breakfasted and on the road in an hour.We drove to Salem, and saw the pioneer village and had a lot of opportunity to talk with the costumed guides. It is a small area with only five or six buildings including a blacksmith

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After a luxurious breakfast of bacon, eggs and cinnamon buns we set off for Gloucester station with the final destination of Boston. Checking email before we left was a great idea because we could make dinner pans with Ukiko!The train we wanted departed at 10:08am, and we made it to the platform by 10:04 not knowing how to get a ticket or ride the train. The car next to us had very helpful

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We packed up with the rain clouds looming, but got everything in the car, and on the road before the first drops fell.Luckily the storm was short lived. We ran into a bit of a traffic jam, and that is saying something, because these were 3-5 lanes of traffic! Evan kept me calm and helped to navigate the 3dimensional maze of highways. We went through the big dig tunnel and lost GPS and had

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After our late night last night, and such a busy schedule so far this week, we slept in until noon today! It was pretty cold last night, toques might be in our future sooner than we had hoped. Evan claims to have seen his breath!Today was the chilliest one yet, and still, we decided to go to the beach. Nauset beach, the one with the light house that we saw earlier in the week, was full,

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We left early in the morning to try to beat traffic and get on board the 10:00 ferry to Martha's Vineyard. There was a little Saturday market along the way and we learned the names of the different vegetables, and bought some peas and carrots.Traffic was unbelievable. We were barely moving for maybe 20 km. Lots of rich people and french Canadian tourists were headed to the island for the

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Worried about traffic to Provincetown we left in the morning and hung out on a beach in Welfleet on the inside of the cape. To get there we walked by a salt marsh and saw lots of little crabs. We climbed a dune to get to the beach. It was low tide, and quite rocky under foot. We were anticipating a change area like on the other beaches, but luckily there weren't many people there, and we

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After a leisurely pancake breakfast we set off to Marconi beach on the Atlantic side of Cape Cod. Climbing down the wooden staircase over the sand bluff that warns of collapse, we could see a beach that was colourfully decorated with umbrellas, towels, and plenty of families. The surf was great, and the tide was still coming in, so if we were being pushed anywhere, it was toward shore. We

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We got lots accomplished for Evan in the morning. He now has a bank account, and we had a good walk through campus and down town. We then got our groceries, from a huge store--Evan likes to try new foods, so we got string cheese and sweet corn.Our first night camping was in Myles Standish State park, and it was lovely. Pine needles on the ground, red and white pine, birch, maple and oak,

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Evan arrived at the hotel at 8:30, and pretty soon after that we were on the road to get groceries and catch the 11:45 ferry to Block Island from Point Judith Rhode Island.Evan was intrigued by the American grocery shopping experience. I'm sure that it is so different from Korea. He'll have fun trying out new foods all year!We made it in time for the boat, and sat on the highest deck so we

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What a day! The drive this afternoon was 4 or 5 lanes sometimes and the cars were all going about 20-30km over the limit. It all got a bit much when I realized that I was missing a potentially lovely quieter drive near the ocean.I set off to find water and take a break from the insane interstate. I found a beach, but you had to be from that city to use it-- I didn't have the car sticker so

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I heard this and knew that I was pretty far from home!This morning I taught Nathan (9) to use my iPod touch, he got it right away. In no time he found the games and was slingshotting angry birds like a pro. He then schooled me in Wii games. I had never played Wii before, and realized that my hand eye coordination is lacking! For payback I taught him how to play hopscotch with stones and all.

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What a long drive yesterday! I managed to have everything packed and the car full of gas by 8am. The border crossing, my first time driving to the states, was ok, but they certainly asked a lot of questions. They were curious about why I had been in Egypt, why I was alone, if I was going camping, what my job was, what I specifically taught, what Evan was studying and where, where I was

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Tomorrow I will begin this summer's adventure. I'm driving to Connecticut to visit my cousin, then to Providence RI, where I will meet up with Evan. Tomorrow Evan will get on a plane from Seoul, and end up eventually in Boston, where he will take a train to Providence, and we'll set out on the to explore Massachusetts.In theory, everything is well planned. We have all our reservations made,

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