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       If you ever dreamed of quitting your job and driving off to explore America's highways and back roads then read this diary first. Priscilla and Ken Rhodes quit their jobs, bought a 30-foot RV (even though neither one knew the first thing about RVing), and on Columbus Day 1997, their fifth wedding anniversary, they drove off to discover America. Their plan was to see 50 states in 50 weeks, spending a week in each state and returning to their jobs in a year. Three years later they returned home, broke but not broken. This is Priscilla's diary of that road trip, a madcap adventure that was both exciting and heartbreaking as she and her husband experienced the exhilarating heights and devastating depths of life on the road. Follow Priscilla and Ken on their three-year journey across the United States and see what they discovered about America and about themselves.

       In Volume 1: New England, New York, and the Great Northern States, Priscilla and Ken visit Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, the "State of Anxiety," New York, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Washington, and Oregon.