Our Road Trip in Numbers and Ratios

Days: 8

Distance: 2300 km

Stops for gas: 3 (Way to go Corolla)

States: 10

Viewings of Peter Pan: 3 (or was it 4?)

Hotels: 4

Requests to stay at Tougas’ one more night to keep playing: bazillion

Times lost driving in New York City: 0

Times lost driving in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire: 1

Times backseat asked if mommy and daddy were fighting: 2

Cities entered without detailed maps: 2

Ivy League universities visited: 4

Preferred choices for Ngila and Bea: Princeton, Brown

Sandwich picnic suppers: 3

Sandwiches Beatrix ate happily: 0

Slices of Frank Pepe’s 16 inch pizza Beatrix consumed: 3

Consumed by Liam: 3

Longest walk: 11 km (NYC)

Highest delicious/price ratio: East Side Pockets (Providence)

Highest delicious/expectations ratio: Lobster roll (Freeport)

Museums visited: 5

Self-portraits in 15 mins after Ngila figured out timed photo function: 7

Times Ngila was told to stop taking self-portraits in front of
modern art due to copyright concerns: 1

Times told by museum security that children must stay in stroller: 1

Times told at same museum that strollers weren’t allowed: 1

Highest cool/possibility we could do it at our house ratio: Translucent marble walls at rare book library in New Haven

Fountains entered/viewed ratio: 1 in 5 (that’s low for us)