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We've been planning a trip with our good friends Tom and Linda from New Jersey. For this trip we drove the van cross country to NJ. Went on a cruise to the Bahamas, then flew to Miami and took another cruise to the ABC islands from Ft. Lauderdale. Then we flew back to NJ and picked up the van and headed for the Canadian side of Niagara Falls before heading home going north around Lake Superior.

 
Distance: 
5,713 
 miles
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