Two sisters. Thirty ballparks.
In and around United States
With four months and their life savings, two sisters set out to visit all 30 baseball parks (and lots of other stuff, too) in one fell swoop.
Route taken and entries by Real Traveler the Murray girls
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Anna arrives in the Rocky Mountain state
Anna arrives in Denver. There is much rejoicing.
Game 1: Colorado Rockies. We sat in the “Rockpile” (bleacher seats even crappier... Continue reading »
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Chili, beer, bluegrass, cows
We bid farewell to Summit County and went to Aspen to the Chilipepper Brewfest. This is an ingenious festival with bluegrass music, chili, and b... Continue reading » -
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Arches Nat'l Park
We started a week long tour of Utah National Parks at Arches, with home base as Moab. We stayed in a hostel there (in a bed!) and cooked dinn... Continue reading »
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Bryce Canyon Nat'l Park
Our second National Park in Utah was Bryce Canyon, which is gorgeous. The canyon is punctuated with giant spires of rock (called "hoodoos") m... Continue reading »
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Zion Nat'l Park
We left Bryce Canyon and headed for Zion National Park. Little did we know that we would be coming down from elevation and into 90 degree wea... Continue reading »
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Flagstaff: ATVs and Folk Music
With the help of our trusty "Guide to Free Campgrounds", we landed ourselves a pretty sweet free campsite outside of Flagstaff, AZ among enormous R... Continue reading »
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They say it's a dry heat so it isn't so bad...
We don't understand why Phoenix even exists. It is so hot that it seems completely idiotic to have built a city there. But they did.&nb... Continue reading »
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San Diego = sweet
San Diego is a really nice town...nice weather, great beaches, and friendly people. While there, we had a great time staying with our second... Continue reading »
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Los Angeles, take 1
We weren't such big fans of LA, but we did have a good time because we met up with Anna's friend Ali. It was pretty weird since Ali lives in... Continue reading »
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The roadtrip goes international
Through a little scheduling snafu (ahem... Maggie) we miscalculated when the LA Dodgers were in town. So with an extra week we decided, wel... Continue reading »
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LA, take 2
OK, so since the Dodgers weren't in town when we thought they were (the first time we were in LA), we had to go back to catch them at home.
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mid-coast California
Woke up at Wal-Mart in Oxnard and hit the road early. We drove California Route 1 all the way up the coast, stopping first at Hearst Castle.... Continue reading »
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the San Francisco treat
Glad to see the San Francisco skyline after a very long drive up the California coast, we were greeted by a slew of Anna’s RIT friends in San Franc... Continue reading »
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Wine!
Anna’s boyfriend Emerson had a few days off from work in Sausalito, so we picked him up and decided to head for wine country. We drove to Nap... Continue reading »
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Humboldt Redwood SP
Bypassing Redwoods National Forest, we went to a California state park instead. As far as we could figure, though, it was exactly the same; big... Continue reading » -
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Crater Lake. bugs + beauty
There are two things to know about Crater Lake:
1) it’s really, really gorgeous
2) it’s really, really buggy
There’... Continue reading »
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Oregon - Portland and Columbia River Gorge
Expecting some great Northwest weather, we were disappointed to arrive in Portland amid record-breaking heat (95ish). We had our first “couch... Continue reading »
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Mt. Rainier
You may have forgotten, but Maggie and Anna might be the least decisive people you know. We’re the least decisive people WE know, anyway.&nbs... Continue reading »
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Seattle
Again with some pre-dawn awaking (this time on purpose), we packed up our backcountry camp, hiked out of the woods, and hit the road north to the l... Continue reading »
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The big drive east - Yellowstone etc.
Man, this is a big country. We clocked over 2000 miles in four days on the trip from Seattle to Minneapolis. That basically means that... Continue reading »
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Baseball inside and bobbling heads - Minneapolis
Normally we avoid malls like the plague, but in this land of cornfields and cows, what do people do but build huge malls? We decided we had t... Continue reading »
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Milwaukee
Milwaukee was somewhat disappointing if only because in this land of sausages, we didn't eat any brats. We did, however, get to Miller Park e... Continue reading »
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The Windy City
Chicago meant a few things to us: visiting with family, seeing multiple baseball games, and getting some culture. We were pretty successful o... Continue reading »
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St. Louis
We got into St. Louis just in time to see the Cardinals beat out the rival Cubs. An enthusiastic crowd and a grand slam made it pretty exciti... Continue reading »
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...Kansas City here I come
We could not stop singing “I’m going to Kansas City… Kansas City here I come…” while we were there. It was really annoying. KC... Continue reading »
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Tour de Arkansas
We had about a week of time to spend between Kansas City and Arlington, TX until the Rangers were back in town. Anyone want to venture a gues... Continue reading »
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Don't mess wth Texas
We spent a lovely couple days in the Dallas area staying with family friends the McCarthys - Kevin, Antoinette, and Lizzie. It was frightfull... Continue reading »
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More of the Lone Star State: Houston
Houston's Minute Maid Park was #16 on the list, so to Houston we went. We had a giant slumber party, since Amy (one of Anna's college friends... Continue reading »
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New Orleans
No drive from Texas to Florida is complete without a stop in New Orleans, and we were both excited to go there for the first time. We soaked... Continue reading »
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A Stop in St. Augustine
With a free day or two and the state of Florida at our feet, we made a little stop in St. Augustine en route to Miami.
Okay quiz fans, triv... Continue reading »
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Miami
On to Miami…. We spent some time walking through South Beach to look at the art deco buildings and Little Havana where we ate Cuban sandwiche... Continue reading »
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St. Pete / Tampa
In a trick like that of the “Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim,” the Tampa Bay Devil Rays don’t actually play in Tampa, but in St. Petersburg Florida (... Continue reading »
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Georgia: new friends, song, baseball
We found our way to Hoboken (a town of 500 people in rural south Georgia) for a shape note singing. While there we met Sarah and Lane, a very... Continue reading »
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Mountains = cooler weather
In another of those rare moments where we were able to see some of Maggie’s friends, we spent a few days with Chris and Dave in Asheville, North Ca... Continue reading »
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Ohio take 1: Cincinnati and Columbus
To begin our Tour-of-Ohio-cities-that-start-with-C we made it to Cincinnati. It was a short stay at Anna’s friend Pam’s house, and basically... Continue reading »
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Detroit
We woke up early than we would have liked to get to Detroit for a Sunday afternoon game. The Tigers battled the Yankees on a beautiful sunny... Continue reading »
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They say that Cleveland Rocks
Cleveland brought a lovely visit with Anna’s friends Joe and Liz. We visited the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (with the rate we go through muse... Continue reading »
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Pittsburgh
In Pittsburgh we stayed with Anna’s friend Pat. We walked around the Carnegie Mellon campus a bit and did some essential things like sleep in la... Continue reading » -
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Mini Family Reunion in Toronto
O! Canada…our third country of the trip. Our parents came up to spend the weekend with us in Toronto, which was really great. We got to... Continue reading »
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Cooperstown
A baseball road trip cannot be complete without a pilgrimage to Cooperstown, New York, the “birthplace” of baseball. We visited the Hall of Fame... Continue reading » -
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Upstate New York - Rochester, etc.
We spent the better part of a week in upstate New York divided between Cooperstown, Rochester, Seneca Falls, and Mexico (the town… not the country)... Continue reading »
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4 hours in Baltimore
Baltimore became sort of a side trip instead of a destination of its own. We drove there from Washington, DC, saw the game, collected free Kevin... Continue reading » -
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Our Nation's Capital = Maggie's friends
Our stay in DC (for nearly a week) was a fun, low-key one. We saw a bunch of Maggie’s friends, ate some yummy dinners, went to a few museums (th... Continue reading » -
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Bears!
After much deliberation over our next stop, Shenandoah National Park won out over the Maryland eastern shore (naturally this decision happened as w... Continue reading »
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Harpers Ferry
To satisfy the history buff in us, we scheduled a stop in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. This was the site of abolitionist John Brown’s raid on t... Continue reading » -
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New York: a bigger family reunion
We hit New York (via Bethlehem, PA) for a smorgasbord of family and baseball. Our parents came down to see a Yankees game with us, and even t... Continue reading »
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Philly was Phantastic
In Philadelphia we stayed with Anna’s friend Carla and her boyfriend Drew. Back on our schedule of seeing a city in one day, we focused on th... Continue reading »
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Back to Beantown
You know the old cliché about getting goosebumps as you walk down the ramp and get your first glimpse of a playing field? That was us as we w... Continue reading »
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Home Sweet Home
We made it! We successfully saw a game at every major league ballpark, and had a ball doing it. This is the kind of trip that most peop... Continue reading »
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Post Script...the World Series!
A little postscript from Maggie direct from the World Series...
I must be the luckiest person alive. After an amazing summer filled wit... Continue reading »
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