My memories in New England are some of the sweetest of our whole trip because I met my best friend in person for the first time. Because I was enjoying my time with her, her siblings and her parents so much, I didn't spend as much time noticing the little quirks about New England as I had other states. However... The largest grievance (and most familiar one) was the roads… Again. This time, it wasn’t just how bad they were—it was the fact that they were acc

New York City was the most surreal place we visited, and now that we've come away from it, I can't really believe we've been there. I suppose I never thought we'd actually visit such a famous place, so it's more or less like we went to the moon. Maybe it still hasn't sunk in that we went. New Jersey/Jersey City: We stayed in New Jersey the week that we visited New York City. The campground we stayed at was off the interstate but sufficiently far away so that we didn

If you will remember, in July (three months ago, I know!) I shared that I was traveling the United States. During a period of two months, I went through 14 different states, spent at least one night in 11 of them, recorded 46 state license plates (I got Hawaii and Alaska!) and 2 Canadian (Quebec and Ontario). During the trip, I couldn't help noticing the differences in culture, topography and weather. I used to live in East Tennessee, so as we headed north, the first sta

It's been quite awhile since I've written any posts for Shades of Art. Those of you on my email list have already found out why: I left Tennessee and am currently traveling around the U. S.! While I've been writing a good deal the last week or so, the art I've probably been focusing on most is photography (and clearly not blogging.) After all, what better things to take pictures of than the Washington Monument, the Statue of Liberty or my best friend that I finally met in per