Guess what? It went WELL! Alhamdulillah, we drove almost 7,000 miles, and it went wellllll....
Itinerary:
- April 1st: Drove from DC to Milwaukee, WI in 13 hours for a CAM conference. 2 nights
- Drove 10 hours to Oacoma, South Dakota. 1 night.
- Drove 4 hours to Mt. Rushmore NP. Lovely, was snowing lightly, had clear, fresh mountain air, saw a group of mountain goats.... (2 hours).
- Drove to Rawlins, Wyoming (6-7 hours). By this point, it was blizzarding/freezing....
- Got up early the next morning and drove through a crazy, blinding blizzard to Zion, Utah. Had more than one scare that we would be stopped due to highway closures and sent back to Wyoming, miss our Zion reservation.... But we barely made it out of the snow storm alhamdulillah. (8 hours?)
- Zion, Utah! Two nights. (or three?)
- Drove to Grand Canyon from there and spent three nights. We met my bro, Muh., and his family there on the second day.
- Drove from GC towards Houston. First night spent in New Mexico.
- Next morning drove to White Sands Natl Monument. Had dinner that evening in El Paso.
- Spent the night in Texas. Next morning drove down to Austin for a strawberry picking trip, then visit to Saif's second cousin, then to Khala Firyal's, then on to Houston.
- Spent 5 nights in Houston. The girls had a BLAST. ABSOLUTE BLAST with their cousins alhamdulillah.
- Drove 4 hours to Lousiana after that for a swamp tour.
- Spent one night, then on to TN. Stopped in Alabama for dinner at Fatemah's house.
- Made it to Smoky Mountains next afternoon (after a cave tour in Chattanooga). Spent two nights.
- Then drove straight through, 8 hours, to good ole' VA and home.
