As of today, I’ve officially been to all 50 states. Before we started this trip, I had just a few left to go: West Virginia (I don’t count previously driving across the little northern tip as having been there), Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Thanks to our detour to Charleston, we ticked off my last 6 states. As an aside, I do count driving into the tip of Alaska [...]
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Well, we’ve just wrapped up a big round of friend visits, and each time we were set to see somebody we hadn’t seen in months (or years) it felt a bit odd. I couldn’t help think of Gotye’s song, Somebody That I Used To Know … even though these were all friends, not ex-girlfriends. Would things be different? Would our friends turn into people we just used to know? Nope. [...]
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Well, we’ve published 300 posts on our blog. #300 fired off this morning — my post about Detroit. Seems like a lot of writing. It’s been a lot of miles — just under 18,000 so far. We’re 6.5 months into our trip and still loving it. Some days are tough, like yesterday when we were mobbed by insects for the first time and used some of the most disgusting campground [...]
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After our stop in Chicago, we’re going to meet up with Lisa’s parents in Ohio. We’ll kill a little time in Detroit before that, and afterward we’re planning to head south to the Carolinas, then west to New Orleans. Plans are loose, like Rocky’s front bumper, but we’re still aiming for Alaska in the summer. We’re getting a bit soft with all this time spent indoors. We’ve fallen out of [...]
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Most people have to get their phones hacked before their pictures get onto the interwebs. Here are 21 pictures I discovered when digging through my old phone photos. Most you probably haven’t seen, but with so many pictures, we may have published a few of these before. Enjoy!
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“You know, I really like mornings. They’re so peaceful, and the light is amazing.” True. Mornings are great. But LISA said that. After I pieced my exploded head back together, I looked back on the other signs of change. In Indianapolis, she sampled a pickled egg without reservations or hesitation. In Chicago, I suggested we go to a bar serving $0.30 wings for a pre-dinner snack and she was all [...]
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My family is a camping family, and through trial and error, they’ve found the best gear to make camping as easy and comfortable as it can get. Over multiple Christmases, we’ve been equipped with the gear that has made our non-van camping days possible, and, dare I say it, pleasant. Hopefully we can help save you some effort in finding the best camping gear. And I should note that this [...]
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In the desert, spring is hard to notice. In years when there is no outbreak of colorful flowers, the signs of the shifting seasons are even more subtle. You might notice that some of the leaves seem slightly greener, a few cacti might blossom, and some softer plants may be growing where only hard, crusty plants had been before. The desert’s subtle shifts remind me that spring is much more [...]
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We’re free! Thanks to our well-timed post and a quick prayer to Saint Mother Theodore Guerin in Terre Haute (that’s miracle three, bitches), we’ve been re-classified as non-enemy, non-combatant, pacifist travelers (no more indefinite detention!). Phew! Oh, and we promised to deny everything (and not post anything about the great tacos we had in Cuba). All that stuff we said about the RNC – totally false. Privatization is awesome. Businesses are people. Totally. Parks [...]
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I enjoy watching our popular posts shift around and jockey for position. For a long time, posts about our Merit 25 sailboat were on top thanks to Google and people looking for information about this boat via search. Lately, the post about travel computers has been on top, but it was recently dethroned. Here’s what’s at the top today and why: Culver’s vs. In-N-Out comparison post. This was a popular [...]
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