After our Wednesday wanderings of Portland, Oregon and Crater Lake National Park, we finally found our way back to California after nearly 4 months. We initially had planned to drive to Eureka, CA, but instead drove all the way to Sacramento, CA (although we still did drive through the Redwoods National Park and state [...]

Today we left Seattle, WA and decided to tour the northern Oregon coast before driving to Portland, OR. We started out by driving towards Astoria, OR, which took us through Olympia, WA. I randomly remembered that Olympia was the capital of Washington, so (since I was driving) I decided we were stopping to [...]

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 [...]

Sorry for the emu post yesterday (emo, whatever), but speaking of birds… I saw many today! We went to Sandwich, MA to go to the Sandwich Glass Museum and right across the street was a lake with two swans in it. I got excited and told Travis to drive around the perimeter of [...]