Captain’s Log: Day 3
Eight states and 12 hours later, we arrived in the thriving metropolis of Newark.
You may be asking, “Why? Oh God, Woman, why Newark?”
Because the budget for this trip from hell does not include $400 per night for a New York hotel.
Featuring reasonable hotel rates and convenient (sort of) train service to New York City, Newark it is.
On the way up, we stopped at a place that looms large in my memory from road trips with my parents: Roadside America.
My boys loved it as much as I did. That right there almost made the whole fiasco worthwhile.
Today we head to NYC where the main attraction — and the reason we couldn’t cancel this trip — awaits us on the Great White Way: tickets to Spider-Man and Wicked.
We’re all pretty excited. We’re ignoring all the news reports that feature phrases we don’t want to hear — phrases such as “heat advisory” and “hottest day of the year.”
We’re going to make this work.
Beth
Coming tomorrow: Land of my father
Observe and report 
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