Category: Blog Post
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Week 10
By Shelby This week we went through several cities in central Montana. The weather was very good all week in the 70s and 80s (Fahrenheit). We are settling into a nice routine of working Monday to Wednesday at libraries. Sometimes we work all week in one city or drive after work to get to someplace…
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Week 9
By Shelby Monday we worked a little from the hotel we stayed at the previous night, the Days Inn in Fargo. After checkout, we went to Leisure Laundry to do laundry and worked from there. Then we moved on to the Fargo Public Library to finish work for that day. After work, we drove two…
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Week 8
By Shelby Monday we worked from the Kimberly Village Public Library in Wisconsin. After work, we went to Sunset Beach. Since we had been doing so much the past few days, we just wanted to do nothing for a bit. We had mac and cheese for dinner and then we played Minecraft. We worked from…
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Week 7
By Shelby This week, we started working at the university library in Erie, PA at Penn State Behrend. After work on Monday, we drove on to Cleveland Ohio where we ate Wendy’s for dinner. We had a nice view of some Cleveland skyscrapers from the parking lot. On Tuesday and Wednesday, we worked from the…
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New England Review
By Spencer To start the trip we decided to first visit the New England states. We wanted to complete these six northeastern states as a trial run before committing and going west. The plan was to do a loop starting and ending in our home state of New York. This allowed us to visit several…
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Week 6
By Shelby This was another great week. We spent a lot of time catching up with our families in New York. It was great to see everyone and sleep in a real bed for a few days. On Sunday, we had a Memorial Day picnic with Spencer’s extended family. Monday morning we got brunch with…
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Week 5
By Shelby This week we spent most of our time in Laconia, New Hampshire. We worked from the Laconia Public Library on Monday. I found it very cold, so I ended up moving to the car to work where it was warm. After work, we went to a small beach on Lake Winnisquam to eat…
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Week 4
By Shelby Starting Sunday night, we stayed in an AirBnB since Spencer’s allergies were bad, along with my cough. We hoped that sleeping in the car wasn’t making Spencer’s allergies worse. The AirBnB was in Wells, Maine, a tiny touristy town on the ocean. We parked at the beach while we were waiting to check-in.…
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Initial Reflection
By Spencer It’s been three weeks since we drove away from our apartment in upstate NY. We’ve been very busy working, planning, and making memories. The three weekly posts so far have explained all our fun adventures, but I wanted to add a brief post about some of the specifics of how we are adjusting…
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Week 3
By Shelby This week started with our next set of challenges. I came down with a terrible cold. I decided to fight through it and not take the day off from work. We ended up working in a very interesting library in Woburn, a suburb of Boston. The library was old and historic with long…