Rollin' with Jane: New Jersey and the Carolinas

Tales of Adventure from my travels with Jane Dough!

We love love LOVE Aldi.  So it was very exciting when we found one between library visits in New Jersey!

Audiobooks are an absolute must for long days of driving.  Andrew Clements is one of our favorite authors.  On this particular day, he was helping us make it from New Jersey to Virginia!

It's Jane's first time in South Carolina, so naturally she had to have her picture taken in a palmetto tree!

On to North Carolina (Charlotte, to be precise), where we visited with our friends the Adams!  (Their names aren't really Fred and Doris.)

 

Major League Bocce in Charlotte!

Of course, we had to visit a new, fabulous doughnut spot in the Charlotte area:  Your Mom's Donuts.  They were even better than they look

Jane and I couldn't do all this traveling without help from a LOT of folks along the way.  And it's important to say "Thank you" for all that help . . . just a quick shot with Jane before these notes hit the mailbox!

Rollin' with Jane: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York City

Tales of Adventure from my travels with Jane Dough!

Obviously, Jane is not in this photo.  But she was with me when I visited the Ames Free Library in Easton, Massachusetts.  It is an extraordinary place.  This is the main reading room, complete with perpetual (video) fireplace!

I think Jane may have been a little intimidated by this giant dosa when we went for Indian food in Sharon, MA!

Also in Sharon . . . Jane with her canine friend, Dobby!

The town of Merrimack, NH is reading Arthur Conan Doyle's Hound of the Baskervilles.  Jane got her photo with Holmes and Watson outside the Merrimack Library!

Jane hasn't read The Hobbit or seen any of the movies, but she loves Martin Freeman almost as much as I do.

We went to see my friend Eddie Gamarra's film "The Maze Runner" while we were in New York City!

Jane fit right in with the homey aesthetic at The Kitchenette in NYC.

New York City Marathon!  We were amazed at all these intrepid athletes.

Rollin' with Jane: Firsts along the way

Tales of Adventure from my travels with Jane Dough!

 

This trip includes a lot of firsts for Jane.  Here she is for the first time in Virginia!
 

We stopped off at one of the locations of Fractured Prune, outside Baltimore.

Fractured Prune is unique among doughnut stores I have visited in that they make the doughnuts fresh to order, and then add glazes and toppings.

Our selections from Fractured Prune.  They were yum-mazing!

Jane's first visit to the Nutmeg State!  Unfortunately, we didn't find a lot of photo ops as we were driving through.

We arrived in Rhode Island, where Jane got to experience her first pumpkin patch!

The wind was chilly that day, but the sun shone bright and warm.  And the cold didn't stop us from having fun!