Ultimate Baseball "Fantasy" Trip - The first 8 days

Wow!! The first 8 days of the trip are in the book. What an adventure. Never in my dreams would I have imagined something quite like this. The 4 of us have really taken to this trip and the adventures associated with it. It started in Seattle last Saturday and in the 8 days we have traveled around 4700 miles (including the side trip to Dyersville, IA). That is an average of nearly 600 miles a day, so you can tell we have done some serious traveling. The first trip at the beginning was good so we could get used to that much time in the van. It was really good to get together with Corey in San Francisco. It was a well spent day. We went to LA after that and it was interesting to get a feel for the city getting ready to celebrate their Kings winning the Stanley Cup. A 4-hour 9 inning game that night put us a bit against the clock as we had a very long trip to Denver after the game. All of us had the opportunity to log miles in during that portion of the trip. Fortunately we didn't get smoked out due to the wildfires outside of Denver. The trip to Kansas City was pretty routine, but still another 600 miles logged in. Going to see where they shot Field of Dreams wasn't something I planned initally when putting the schedule together, but once I looked at it as a possibility I thought why the heck not. Minneapolis was the first place where weather looked to be a possible factor, but alas, even though there was rain in the area we stayed dry during the game. After that game it was a long trip via the Northern Peninsula from Minneapolis to Detroit. Like Pat said in his "Pat's Thoughts" it doesn't make a lot of sense to make a trip in a scenic area in the middle of the night, but it got light early enough to where we were still able to take advantage of daylight. We wrapped up the first full week with yesterday's trip from Detroit to Cleveland via Toronto. That was a fair amount of time behind the wheel for sure, but getting all the way to Cleveland instead of staying in Toronto set us up for today's activities, which I will preview in the next post. What does the next week have in store for us and where will our journeys take us over the next week. Where ever it is we will put miles on the van, but I'm confident not as many as last week. In closing this review, I'd like to thank everyone who has taken the time to follow this blog and to those who have commented. Your comments are always welcomed and if you'd rather make it a private comment you can reach the group via e-mail at ultimatebaseballfantasytrip@gmail.com. I hope you all enjoy this and understand that all 4 of us feel honored to bring it to you. Take care and Happy Father's Day to all the fathers following this adventure.