Trips during our first year together

Travelling into the next phase of life with a significant other. We arrived at JFK airport in the evening of New Year’s Eve. Had a bonus side trip to Amsterdam, a fun filled 9 hours between flights exploring the sights near the grand centraal station and quick visit to Madurodam. Our cousin gave us a ride home and invited us to attend the celebration at the Bridgewater temple to usher in the New Year.

Our first road trip in the US was to the temple. He hadn't been there before and we lost our way. We arrived past midnight... thus beginning our adventures on the road. I always believed who and where we spend the New Year with charts the happenings of the year ahead and as expected, that year was filled with travel. Road trips during the spring and summer months and air travel in fall.

AAA helped us plan the routes and with triptik, travel books and map in hand we went on our adventures.   

• Mid-April, my husband had an official visit the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and we made it a short vacation including a drive thru and stay over in the Shenandoah National park, and a visit with family close to DC. We had the most wonderful time and I absolutely enjoyed being navigator and reading maps.
• May, we went to DC and in June to Boston. We stayed in downtown hotels where my husband was busy attending to his work while I enjoyed the local sights.
• July 4th, long weekend we went to Niagara falls via Corning, NY(loved the glass museum).  In Niagara falls on the canadian side, we stayed at a beautiful Bed and Breakfast place not too far from the falls. The fireworks, both in Canada and US were spectacular and the highlights of our trip.
• Later in July, we drove to Pittsburgh, PA for a birthday celebration in the family. We also visited the ISKCON Palace of Gold in West Virginia for a day. On our way back to NJ late in the evening, we got caught in an electric storm (lots of thunder and lightning without any rain) driving thru the open Pennsylvania country side.. The ups and downs in the terrain made it a spectacular sight to behold and also the most unique experience.

It was the last road trip we made that year. We went to India in October and surprised the family, arriving unannounced. We had our beautiful baby girl in December of the same year.

Note: Please bear with me on the lack of pictures; I will add some in the coming days. With no digital camera, we have lots of prints stored away carefully in cartons, and they need to be sorted, catalogued and scanned before I can share them.