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Posted by kate in logistics on 08 23rd, 2009 | No Comments
Flashback: The Northeast
Flashback: The Northeast
Leg 5: The Northeast After a short but wonderful visit with my family at the family camping trip and then afterward in Indianapolis, we jumped back in the car and continued East. We detoured southeast to Cincinnati to see my cousin, diagonaled northeast through Ohio, barely grazed Pennsylvania and were...
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Posted by kate in logistics on 08 21st, 2009 | No Comments
Flashback: The West
Flashback: The West
Leg 4: The West From Vancouver we drove several hundred miles west through the Canadian Rocky Mountains along southern British Columbia enjoying absolutely pristine landscapes. We then cut southwest through eastern Washington, the panhandle of Idaho, and landed in Montana. Montana surprised us and left...
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Posted by kate in logistics on 08 20th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Flashback: Driving the Pacific
Flashback: Driving the Pacific
Leg 3: Driving the Pacific Brett loves the ocean, we’ve never spent much time on the Pacific Coast and I wanted to explore the Northwest – so we decided to drive the entire Pacific Coast from Mexico to Canada and explore along way. We had some amazing times along the coast including a fun...
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Posted by kate in logistics on 08 19th, 2009 | No Comments
Flashback: Detour To The Coast
Flashback: Detour To The Coast
Leg 2: Detour To The Coast Although Route 66 would have taken us all of the way to the Pacific Coast, we opted to end our journey along Route 66 at the Arizona/California border. We wanted to make a few detours before ending up at the Pacific Coast. We stayed a few days in Lake Havasu City on the AZ/CA...
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Posted by kate in logistics on 08 18th, 2009 | No Comments
Flashback: Route 66
Flashback: Route 66
Leg 1: Route 66 We traveled for a few days at the beginning around Indiana, Michigan and Illinois. We got a sense for how much stuff we had packed, what it was going to be like living out of and sleeping inside of our ’98 Subaru Outback. We then headed out along the remnant stretches of Route 66...
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Posted by kate in logistics on 06 11th, 2009 | 3 Comments
Stats Update
Stats Update
To answer the questions out there, here is a Stats Update (based on figures as of June 8th, Day 55). Sleeping: How: 19 nights sleeping in the car 26 nights sleeping in the tent 10 nights on pull out couch/floor/bed Cost: 23 nights of free camping 32 nights of paid camping Average cost per night = $10.18 Where: 2...
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Posted by kate in logistics on 05 15th, 2009 | 3 Comments
Rest Area in Arizona
Rest Area in Arizona
I completely forgot that I took this picture back on Day #17 until I was flipping through and saw it! Brett and I stopped at a highway rest area in Arizona to make dinner before continue west along our journey. As I was walking around stretching my legs, I saw that they had designated an area for exercising...
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Posted by kate in logistics on 04 27th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Packing the car
Packing the car
During the day, while we are driving, this is the setup for the car (see pictures): The front seat is kept clutter-free. We have maps, compass, water, music and sometimes the video camera. The picnic blanket lays on the floor of the passenger side up against the seat. There is chocolate candy in the...
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Posted by kate in logistics on 04 26th, 2009 | 7 Comments
Sleeping in the car
Sleeping in the car
We have received numerous questions about how it’s going sleeping in the car thus far. So to answer all of you at once – here goes: We love it! Sleeping in the car has been fantastic. Today is day #11 and we have spent $19 on campgrounds. We have stayed 4 nights in City/County/State Parks,...
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Posted by kate in logistics on 04 22nd, 2009 | No Comments
Following Along
Following Along
We invite you to follow along on our journey. We will be updating our daily route via a page on our blog called “The Trip” accessible from the top navigation. We may not update the route on a daily basis, as we may not be online daily. But as we do sign online every few days, we will update...
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