1 post tagged “summer vacation 2002”

In the summer of 2002, we were going to my cousin's wedding in North Carolina. 

In 2001 we drove from here in Chicago to the Northeast to see Toronto, Boston, Cape Cod and eventually to see my parents in Pennsylvania.  This was our first big driving trip together, and we were proud of the fact we didn't kill each other. 

So this time we decided to drive from Chicago to Memphis, Austin, San Antonio, Biloxi, Atlanta and then to the wedding.  In two weeks.  In August.

The key to surviving both trips was the audiobook.  It did a great job of taking our minds off the fact we had another 10 hour driving day ahead of us.

Well, here are a bunch of pictures from the 2002 trip.  I can't find any pictures from Graceland, which is annoying.

This is one of the old Spanish missions in San Antonio.  We would have gone to more of these but it was around 98 and humid every day we were there.  We recommend staying on the Riverwalk, it is alot of fun.  Jonnell even talked me into taking a tourist boat cruise.

This was near one of the missions we visited.

This is why Jonnell wanted to go to San Antonio.  Although, instead of swimming with dolphins we got to go in the shark tank.

And this was the one thing I wanted to see in Texas.  Shiner Bock is great beer and the brewery tour is pretty good.

Not sure where we were when this was taken but I liked the picture.

We spent two nights at Beau Rivage, in Biloxi, Mississippi.  Thanks to Katrina, I'm guessing it doesn't look like this anymore.

We got to see a Braves game in Turner Field.  We were in the "Lexus Level", which is just the club level, and it was very nice.  On a recommendation from Alton Brown, we ate at Aria in Buckhead, which was super.  We also would recommend the Sofitel Atlanta, which was very nice.

Driving up to North Carolina from Atlanta, we saw this waterfall and had to stop to check it out.

And on our drive home, we passed the Weinermobile in Indiana.