The Last Leg

I'm in St. Louis. I'll be sticking around tonight and at least part of tomorrow. I'm trying to figure out what to do next.

I could be home tomorrow, if I wanted.

At the beginning I had this idea that I wanted to go all the way to the northeast and explore that area some -- but I knew there was a high probability of both my desire and my money being low. The desire is half there. The money is indeed getting tight, but I could swing it. I could dip into my "extra" savings I didn't want to touch. I could beg for money.

My mental energy plummeted while I was in Southern California, but has since come back somewhat. I think the mental burden has lessened since "turning the corner," so to speak, by heading north and east again. I can think more clearly and formulate something resembling a plan again. Part of me wants to continue. But a lot of me wants to go home.

Some time while I was in Denver I started to think about doing an abbreviated half-trip to the northeast. Go around the eastern-most Great Lakes, go into Canada one more time, visit some friends in Detroit and maybe other areas of southern Michigan, then head north. That's basically the assumption I was going on for the last week or so.

But I don't know. I'm not sure what to do or where to stop along the way. I'm not sure I want to do it that badly. It might just be a better idea to wait and do a proper northeast trip another time.

The closer I get, and the longer stretches I drive (I basically drove all the way across Kansas stopping two-ish times), the more tempting it is to just put "Traverse City" in the GPS and make a day of it.

So I'll pass it by people and see what kind of input I get.

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This is kind of what I was thinking....



Or there is a shortened version of this, where I go to Niagra Falls and only go around Lake Erie....



Or there is the extended version, taking me to Vermont and maybe Montreal and Ottawa.




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I wanted to get all the way out to Nova Scotia, but I just don't see it happening. Slash don't really want to right now.

What sounded good a week ago honestly just doesn't right now. I'm tired of seeing/not even really seeing the cities. They're all just kind of stops right now, and I'm not really doing much exploring or enjoying.

As much as I'd like to see Niagra Falls, and to go to Canada one more time, I think if I do a proper, longer northeast trip another time I can do those and a lot more. And have the energy. And plan better. And they won't just be stops.

I kind of just want to go home. I know most comments will be "Go here! Go there! Go everywhere!" And yeah, it sounds fun. But I'm going to have to get some fairly compelling arguments.

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EDIT:

OR, or, or....



Something totally different. I could go to the Porkies finally, which I've been wanting to do for years. I can get a quick UP trip in. And I can go home.

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I think tomorrow I'm going to go to find a gym mid-day and wait on comments and mull all of this over before I decide to go anywhere. Hopefully I'll have some input, or just some time to think, and I'll make a decision I'm happy with by the middle of the afternoon.

Or I can always just go the most direct route....



Or I could take "backroads" or something to make it more scenic.

Either way, it's looking like I'm sleeping at a Walmart tonight.