Packing for Adventure

This was a pretty great trip other than the hiccups in Detroit. It’s an engaging topic, and people love to hear about it and recommend their favorite spots for pizza. I am told that Philadelphia has some pretty great pizza. I’ve also heard Florida, California, Texas, and most randomly, North Dakota!

We’d love to do a similar trip in the future. I think we’d bring the kids next time.

We’d skip Chicago and Detroit and add in Boston and Philadelphia, maybe Washington D.C. We could turn it into an American History trip, which would be great for the kids!

I’d hope to travel between states by train. Here are some of the things I’d like to add in on top of trying new pizzas:

New York City:

• Crown tickets for the Statue of Liberty – I really wanted to do this and just didn’t book tickets early enough. Next time for sure!
• Ellis Island – I’d repeat this for sure – 25 minutes just wasn’t enough for me, and it’s a good learning experience for kids as well.
• Brooklyn Bridge – I loved walking the 1.6 mile bridge, and I bet the kids would like it too.
• FAO Schwartz – the kids would LOVE this, and I’d make sure they got to play on the big piano.
• Pizza – we’d try for some different places, but for sure repeat visits to Denino’s Greenwich Village and John’s of Bleecker Street!

New Haven, CT:

The pizza here was good enough for a repeat visit, but it would have to be a very quick stop as there would be plenty of sightseeing to do elsewhere!

• Pizza – If we could make it work, we’d swing by Frank Pepe’s and maybe a repeat visit to Modern Apizza

Boston:

Having never had pizza here, I’m not sure what we’d try, but on top of trying new pizzas, we’d for sure do some American History stops.

• Freedom Trail – 2.5 mile red-brick path that leads to 16 different historically significant Revolutionary-era sites.
  • Paul Revere’s house
  • Old North Church
  • Faneuil Hall
  • Boston Massacre site
  • Old Granary Burying Ground
    • Burial place for Paul Revere, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and Mary Goose (rumored to be Mother Goose)

Philadelphia:

I know a guy who insists Philadelphia pizza is the BEST pizza! So we’d for sure give it a try on top of visiting more iconic American History sites.

• Liberty Bell
• Independence Hall
• Elfreths Alley
• Rittenhouse Square
• Reading Terminal Market
• Franklin Fountain Ice Cream (I love ice cream as much as Chris loves pizza!)
• Betsy Ross House
• Museum of American Revolution
• Rodin Museum – we’d throw this in for good measure

Other Sites

We don’t make our way to the East Coast very often, and if we could make it work, here’s some other sites on my wishlist that I think would fit well in this itinerary.

• Vermont – Arlington Green Covered Bridge
• Rhode Island – Newport Mansions
• Maine – Acadia National Park (could probably be a trip in its own)
• Washington D.C. – White House, Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, Smithsonian Museums

Please comment and let me know what I’m missing!

And with that, this wraps up my series about our Cross-Country Pizza Crawl! If you get a chance to do something similar, please let me know!

Next up: I’ll detail our trip to Peru – the trip that sparked our love for travel.

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