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Introduction
Planned Itinerary
Notes - Weeks 1 & 2
Notes - Weeks 3 & 4
Notes - Weeks 5 & 6
Notes - Weeks 7 & 8
Notes - Week 9
Places, Costs & Scores
Mileage Breakdown
More Fun Facts
Epilogue


Weeks 1 & 2
Weeks 3 & 4
Weeks 5 & 6
Weeks 7 & 8
Week 9 & Epilogue


Game Summaries
Fun Facts & Stats

Headquarters
of the Evil Empire

The Space
Needle

Looking down from
the Space needle,
with the Kingdome
in the center

A 100 year-old
naturally
mummified
corpse,
on display
at the famous
Ye Olde
Curiosity Shop
on the Seattle
waterfront

Stalking Bill Gates
and his mansion

Mt. Rainier on the
horizon beyond
Lake Washington

The extremely
ugly Kingdome

Game 13 just
underway

My Seattle area host,
Jim Relf (Judie had
already gone
to bed, sorry!)

Entering Idaho

Entering Montana
- that's my kind of
speed limit sign

Cool western themed
motel room
at Yellowstone

Entering Wyoming
- no garish signs
allowed inside
Yellowstone Park

Geysers running
off into the
Firehole River

Steaming geysers, and
a dormant Old Faithful
just after sunset

Don't feed
the animals!

A Yellowstone
waterfall

Mammoth
Hot Springs

Lake Yellowstone

Wide-open Wyoming.
The clouds looked
like huge cotton balls
against the
perfect blue sky.

Entering
South Dakota

Mount Rushmore

An entirely
different angle

The Crazy Horse
Memorial

The biggest
(and best advertised)
drug store in the world

The corniest
place around

Entering
Minnesota

Entering Iowa

Field of Dreams

A beautiful
Iowa sunset

The
Mississippi River
at Dubuque Iowa

Entering
Wisconsin

Lake Michigan
in Milwaukee

The vast
Miller Brewery

Milwaukee
County Stadium,
and the new Miller Park
being built next door

Game 14
just underway

Entering Illinois

Entering Missouri

Busch Stadium

The stadium view
of the arch

Game 15
just underway

Downtown St. Louis,
with the arch visible
in the background

Lincoln's house in
Springfield Illinois

The Sears Tower

Views from the top of Sears Tower

MJ's restaurant

Jordan's statue outside the United Center

Comisky Park

The complete
lack of a crowd
at the start of
the doubleheader

Game 16
just underway

Jose Canseco
on deck

Entering Indiana

Entering Michigan

My cousin and
Michigan host,
Stephen Lathom

Tigers Stadium

The unique
flagpole in
centerfield

Game 17
just underway-
reaction to
Knoblauch's
leadoff homer

Entering Ohio

The 200-foot
drop of the
Magnum XL-200

The
Power
Tower

The pride
of Canton

Jim Thorpe,
the first
pro superstar

My all-time
favorite
football player

The only murderer
in the hall of fame

My Columbus hosts,
Bob & Carol
Marshall

The Kings Island
amusement park

Cinergy Field

The Ohio river
from the top deck
of the stadium

Game 18
just underway

Entering Kentucky

Churchill Downs

The Louisville
Slugger
bat factory

Fort Knox & the
U.S. Bullion
Reserve Building

The National
Corvette Museum

Corvette Concept Car

Entering
Tennessee

The Grand Ole Opry
at Opryland

The Graceland
Mansion

The last
jumpsuit Elvis
ever wore

Elvis'
Pink Cadillac

Entering
Arkansas

Bill Clinton's
previous home…

…and where he went
when he wanted
to get a little action

Entering
Oklahoma

Entering Kansas

Part of a huge
mural at the
NCAA Museum

Kauffman
Stadium

Game 19
just underway

The great
centerfield view

Meeting Negro League Legend
Buck Leonard at the game

Entering
Nebraska

Omaha's
AAA ballpark

The Omaha Royals
& Fresno Grizzlies
in action

The Historic Trails Museum's
unique granite wall showing
the topology of the western U.S.

Entering
North Dakota