Pre-road trip as we were packing up, Seattle was the place Travis decided we were inevitably moving, even though he hadn’t been there in years — now, finally, nearly 3 months into our road trip we have finally made it to his supposed future home.
So far Seattle is living up to his expectations — it’s [...]

Our stay in Montana was fairly quick (1.5 days), but we stopped at a few different places Travis remembered from when he was here a long time ago to see how they’ve changed. The first place we stopped was Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana, which was a former open pit copper mine active 1955 [...]

Originally we were planning to spend 2 days in Yellowstone, but once we got there we decided that one super action packed 10 hour day would be sufficient. We did a good portion of the figure-8 road through Yellowstone, and I think we hit most of the important stuff (and if we missed something, [...]

It seems I forgot to post the links to my Mount Rushmore pictures yesterday, which is fine since the light was better this morning so I took new ones. Like I said, we were too cheap to pay the $10 to get into their parking lot and visitor’s center, mostly because we have the [...]

Today we went to Badlands National Park and Mount Rushmore.
I was excited we found deer, sheep (and lambs) and a solitary buffalo along our travels. There were also a lot of scenic rocks. I thought it was nice since it was a good change from the city environments we’ve seen so [...]

I was telling the truth when I said we’d go to the Mall of America everyday we were in Minnesota. It’s just a big mall, but there was nothing better to do nearby anyway. The first day we explored the 1st and 3rd floor, the second day we explored the 2nd floor (and [...]

For sale or trade - one pair of “slightly used” Vans shoes (circa 2006) - size 12
Classic black Vans skate-style shoe with black laces and white trim on the soles. The black suede is slightly greyed with age and in certain areas completely lacks the defining napped finish of suede. Soles are an [...]

We were in New York City on Sunday, and now today (Wednesday) we’re in Minneapolis, Minnesota. That’s 1205 miles on the shortest route on Google maps, which is 19 hours and 29 minutes of driving. This doesn’t include our sidetrack to Detroit, the stop at the Ford factory, or our 4 hour detour [...]

Today we visited Detroit, Michigan, which Travis calls an “urban wasteland” because of all the abandoned boarded up buildings and trashy empty overgrown grass lots.
Travis decided his car felt like a minority (being a Honda in a world of Fords and American-made cars), so he was afraid to leave it alone anywhere (plus [...]

Sunday we left New York City for the ~8 hour drive to Ohio. I suppose we could have stopped in Pennsylvania, but there wasn’t anything we felt like stopping at there. We got to Cleveland area around 8:30pm, which was still before sunset (barely) so I routed the GPS to a park on [...]