17 days
17 games
4 days with no games
2 double-headers
1 triple-header (our first!)
Over 3700 miles driven through 12 states
Games in 6 states and 1 in the District of Columbia
15 ballparks (including 12 ballparks new to us)
12 new home teams
9 different Leagues
Over 150 innings of baseball
1 historic train
1 historic ballpark (but no game there)
1 racing mecca
8 old friends (Jason, Jacob, Cathy, Bob, Bonnie, Rachel, Annette, Tony)
7 family members (Sadie, Nathan, Laura, Jon, Ned, Ned, Autumn)
13 versions of the National Anthem
12 versions of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame"
1 version of "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" (Kingsport, TN)
1 version of "Rocky Top, TN" (Kingsport, TN)
100th (and 101st) different ballpark visited by your intrepid road-trippers
2 Confederate White Houses
2 cruel and unsightly Lebron James/Heat jerseys
6 kids Stephanie wanted to push down for wearing steelers' shirts
Other stuff -
Comments to Todd:
"Big Beard Guy!"
"Hillbilly Jim!"
"Nice beard, hombre"
"Way to rep the beard, bro" (followed by a fist bump)
"ZZ Top!"
Funny signs we missed:
- Copperhead Rd
- Elvis Storage
- Cricket Farm
Best new food:
BBQ Pulled Pork Nachos
Music we listened to on the road:
- The Saints of Pain (all over the place)
- Desolate (in Virginia, because there was a no-hitchhiking sign on the freeway - a thumb with a circle and a slash through it) (and in Tampa because of the cowbell)
- Tied for Last (in Alabama because they mention Selma, AL)
- Death Immortal (while approaching Savannah, for their guitarist Mark)
- Resolution 15
- Hung
- Black Water Rising and SOS (in the Gulf area)
- Killcode
- Devil to Pay
Because of the Gulf oil spill, our charity contribution this year will be aimed at helping the people and environment of that region.
Thanks for travelling with us!
See our other trips at
http://toddandstephaniebaseballroadtrip2008.blogspot.com
http://toddandstephaniebaseballroadtrip2009.blogspot.com
http://toddandstephaniebaseballroadtrip2011.blogspot.com
Stephanie and Todd
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