Henry David Thoreau said as he stood on the shore of Cape Cod in the 1800's, "a man may stand here and put all America behind him." Although I thoroughly enjoyed standing on the same shore, only now that we are in Canada do I truly feel that I have all America behind me. Interesting fact though, as we venture east into Canada we will be going even further from home than we have been yet. At Key West, the very southernmost tip of the continental United Stat...

Dear journal, Today mommy asked me to blog about something we've done between the time of our arrival in Washington D.C. and Lancaster, Pennsylvania. This is a particularly hard task as we have done so much. We've walked the streets of the U.S. capital touring the Smithsonian (the world's largest museum and research center) and monuments to presidents, had numerous campfires, seen parades, and driven around battlefields of the Civil War. While all of these thi...

Dear Readers, its Eli. I feel as if I am writing an essay, which I do not seem to be very good at after a year of no schooling. But I'll try to intrigue you with my writing nonetheless. In a three week period we have been to Washington D.C, the Civil war battlefields and New York City. What an OVERLOAD… Most of what we did in Washington D.C., consisted of the Smithsonian and the monuments to the former presidents. It was incredible and we learned a lot bu...

There are certain things, little things, which have always been familiar to me. Back home we always went to the same stores, saw the same people, did the same things and lived in the same place. Nothing ever changed seriously and everything that I was familiar with was within twenty five miles of my house, which never moved. It has been strange sometimes, to do things which are unfamiliar. One year ago, the extent of my U.S. geography wa...

There are few countries in the Western World whose formation, birth, and history is as concentrated in a specific geographical region as the United States. The "great American experiment" as it is often referred to was conceived, gestated, and birthed in an area in this corner of the country equivalent in size to the Peace River District in British Columbia. The relatively recent birth of this nation in comparison to others of its stature ensures that the s...