Super Special #14 - BSC in the USA

Plot

Dawn and Jeff are in Stoneybrook for the summer. Their dad is going to NYC to pick up an RV to drive back to California, so he arranges it with their mom to pick the kids up and drive cross country with them. Then somehow this morphs into Krisy's stepdad doing the same thing, so now we have:

Brewer RV with Watson, Elizabeth, David Michael, Karen, Andrew, Abby, Jessi and Mallory

Schafer RV with Mr. Schafer, Jeff, Dawn, Claudia, Stacey, Kristy and Mary Anne

Each RV was taking a different route to get to California, and each person got to pick a place along the way that was special to them. 

And yes, Kristy ditched her own family because the other RV's route took them past more MLB stadiums. 

Highlights

• So much happened in this book. 
• Mallory's special place was this small town where her horse books take place. She got to see a lot of horses. 
• Jessi's special place was a plantation where her family were owned as slaves. Also, since they drove through her hometown they stopped there and had dinner with her grandma. Mallory started acting shy, so of course Jessi decided she is secretly racist. 
• Kristy, for some reason, got to go to a million special places. They were all baseball stadiums. And at the one in San Fran, she saw her biological father on the big screen! She magically finds him and they promise to keep in touch. 
• Claudia's special place was an art museum, but then she also fell in love with Wall Drug in South Dakota, where she buys an artist's sketch for ONE DOLLAR that ends up being worth $500. 
• Stacey's special place was Seattle, where her boyfriend Ethan was staying for the summer. 
• Also, Stacey and Claudia fight during the entire trip because Stacey thinks Claudia was snooping through her journal. So they wasted the entire trip fighting rather than talking about it. 
• MaryAnne's place was going to be her grandmother's house in Iowa, but then her grandma suggests they meet in Minneapolis instead at the Mall of America. 
• Abby's special place is Graceland, where they think they see Elvis. But then when they are at the Grand Canyon, she is miserable bc it was a favorite place of her father's. But then she accepted it and spent time just taking in the view and felt at peace and like her father was there. 
• Of course there are two huge almost catastrophes. Mr. Schafer somehow runs out of gas and has to leave the kids alone on the RV when he walks to find a gas station and they are all scared to death. This is happening while the other RV stops at Watson's college roommate's house in Oklahoma, and of course there is a tornado while they are there. 
• The adults did not plan anything for this trip. Every day they just decides where to drive. Mr. Schafer ran out of freaking gas for crying out loud. I don't know how they could plan a cross country trip with no planning.