We stayed with Serkan and the boys for our first night and it was so good to see them and meet Erkay. My heart was heavy seeing them without their mom, my good friend Jennifer. Pictured here is Emre, Fiona age 9 (baby group friends from Istanbul) Lulu and Erkay age 5 1/2. We had a wonderful time with them. 
Then we head to Tracy and Pat’s in Kutztown, PA. It took FOEVER in the VA/DC/MD traffic. I swear we were in bumper to bumper from like 10:30-13:30 that day but we made it just in time for dinner. Being with Tracy and her family is always food for my soul. I don’t see her enough but when I do it is just so good. Pat and Orcun have become great friends and so have the kids and to think Tracy and I met in 1996 at the Milan airport on our way to the NYU Venice program such young 20 somethings. Friendships that last this long mean so much. We haven’t see each other in 4 years but it is like yesterday when I walked into her home.
Tracy and Pat took us to a local weekend market where we also took the dog Molly and Lulu pushed her in a stroller. Lulu was in heaven with that dog. At this market I also got a front license plate, something that I have been wanting for my car. I wanted to write Anne loves Orcun but I was vetoed and I got this. The guy even threw in the bug guard for protection!
And the last set of photos but NOT the least are from Roadside America. And it is something you have to see to believe. It is things like this that we are looking for on this road trip.
Onwards and Westwards.
drinking from the faucet 
I am jealous of everything but that license plate. I love road trips.
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