86% states visited

Out of the 50 US states, I have visited 43 of them. That leaves 7. Whew! Must start planning my next trip.

Trip Jul 23- Sep 5, 2012

Segment 1 - San Francisco, CA
Several local board game groups

Segment 2 - Lancaster, PA
Attend World Boardgame Championships

Segment 3 - New England
Road trip, Visit Frank Lloyd Wright Zimmerman house in Manchester NH

Segment 4 - Indianapolis, IN
Attend Gen Con

Segment 5 - Detroit, Chicago
Road Trip

Segment 6 - San Francisco, CA
Local Board game groups

Segment 7 - Santa Clara, CA
Attend Pacificon

Big Trip 2011

Oct 16 - Depart Melbourne

Oct 16 - Land SFO

Oct 17 - Depart San Francisco - Frankfurt, Germany

Oct 18 - Train Frankfurt to Essen, Germany

Oct 18 - 24 - Essen Germany at the largest game fair with 150,000 others mostly families

Oct 24 - Fly to Chicago

Oct 25- Nov 2 - Road trip Route 66, Frank Lloyd Wright stuff Chicago - Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa, Racine, Chicago

Nov 2 - Nov 6 Fly to Baltimore to attend EuroQuest Board game stuff

Nov 7 - Nov 12 Fly to San Francisco - Bay Area hang out

Nov 13 - 15 North of San Francisco, tourist stuff

Nov 15 - Fly to Dallas Texas to attend BGG.con (Board game stuff)

Nov 20 - Fly to San Francisco

Nov 21 - Fly to Melbourne, Australia

Nov 23 - Land in Melbourne

Whew!

Must fill this in

Hmmmm....
One day I will come back and fill in Nov 7, 2009 until Oct 2011
Here is a summary

Nov 2009, Road trip in USA until Dec 2009
Dec 2009 - mini Roadtrip in California
Jan 2010, Return to Australia
Adjust and find my feet
2 trips to USA,
April 2010 - housekeeping trip, tax, return car
August 2010 attend the World Board Game Championships in PA
Nov 2010 - have surgery to finally get that hernia attended to - all good :-)
Recover from Surgery
Jan 2011, Start working hard and saving money
Jul - Aug, 2011 - USA World Board Game championships for 2 weeks, and Queensland for 2 weeks
Start planning Oct Nov Trip

Nov 5 - Ohio off the main highway

The Big Basket - a 7 story office building. Yes its an office building!!!

Here is another one at their factory/theme park where you can make your own baskets.

You can see this steam for miles. Local power plant,

A lot of homes have these 5 point stars on them. Some homes have multiple, I am not sure, but figured you have a family member in the military of killed in the war. Here is a variety for sale at The Amish store.

Local parking lot

Thinking of applying...

Nov 5 - Ohio - Westcott House

Westcott House in Springfield, Ohio built in 1904.

These urns at front of house are not like the low flatter ones on all his other houses. But when I look at these photos with the way the shadows land they look like guards on the house.

It has a front patio and canaopy not like seen on any other house.

more photos here

Nov 4 - Samara House

West Lafayette, Indiana is the location of Frank Lloyd Wright house called Samara. It is still occupied by the original owner, Dr Christian who is in his eighties. It was built in the mid 50's.

I love spilt level. Its amazing walking into this room. Its like walking into a hug which probably sounds crazy but I am not the only one to feel this.

The day before the tour, they called me to advise that 50 school children would also be on the tour! Yikes, what could I do? I had already waited 3 days. It turned out to be an absolute delight and a highlight of my entire trip.

More Samara photos here