Do You Know How Fast You Were Going?
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On June 4th I quit my job of eleven years. On June 12th I moved out of my apartment in Brooklyn, NY. On June 18th I boarded a plane to Madison, Wisconsin to meet up with Julia, my wonderful girlfriend, who is living in Iowa getting her MFA at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. The plan: to spend her last year in Iowa together, but before that we planned a little road trip...
Madison, WI --> Minneapolis, MN --> Rapid City/Badlands, SD --> Bozeman, MT --> Glacier Nat'l Park --> Seattle, WA --> Portland, OR --> Northern CA --> Southern CA --> Las Vegas, NV --> Flagstaff/Grand Canyon, AZ --> Santa Fe, NM --> Denver, CO --> Omaha, NE --> Iowa City, IA --> Ann Arbor, MI --> New York, NY --> Iowa City, IA
About 9,000 miles in a 1997 Volvo 850. This is the story of that trip. We hope you enjoy reading it.
J&J
Route taken and entries by Real Traveler J & J
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Madison: The Beginning
I arrived in Madison on Thursday night, after driving 1,000 miles from Brooklyn with the windows down, maybe singing country music at the top of my... Continue reading »
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Do you know how fast you were going?
The title of this blog was inspired by real-life events that occurred on our first day of driving -- nay, on our very first leg! I drove out of Mad... Continue reading »
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Five Hundred Miles To Wall
We left the Super 8 in Bloomington after a delicious free continental breakfast and happily headed down I-35 to get back to 90. It was a pretty nic... Continue reading »
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Badlands And Bad Weather
Editor's note #1: We realize that with both of us writing it can be confusing who is speaking at any given time. Where contextual clues... Continue reading »
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Black Hills to Bozeman
After our thwarted attempt at hiking, we decided to try again Friday morning. We got up, had an excellent five-dollar breakfast at KOA and drove no... Continue reading »
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Chillin' in Bozeman
Our drive into Bozeman was easy and beautiful (Jon took many, many photos, and this is just one of the beautiful ones) and ended with the loveliest... Continue reading »
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Freezing in Glacier
We left Bozeman and headed north, planning to camp outside the east entrance to Glacier. The drive north was beautiful, but the weather was not. Af... Continue reading »
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Coeur d'Alene & Seattle
From Glacier we headed west once again on I-90 towards the Pacific, but considering we got a late jump on the highway decided not to haul all the w... Continue reading »
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Portland
We left Seattle and faced a breezy three-hour drive south to Portland. It turned out to be four with traffic around Tacoma and Olympia, but even fo... Continue reading »
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The Oregon Coast and Mt. Shasta
First let me ask a rhetorical question: Did you know there's internet in Denny's? Only in California, my friends, only in California...
But p... Continue reading »
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Hotel California
First of all, my apologies for not having written anything for a long while. We've been putting our feet on the coffee table at Jon's dad's house i... Continue reading »
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Hotel California, Part II
So we are woefully behind, but grabbed a bar of internet while Jon is in the shower (we're in Bryce NP) and wanted to post his addenda to my last p... Continue reading »
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Ridin' on the Freeway
As if California weren't strange enough, we left the Bay Area for L.A., a place I had never been. We stayed with Jon's cousins (the parents of Robi... Continue reading »
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Joshua Tree
Well Joshua Tree was not on our original itinerary, but Jake recommended it and it was close enough on the route to Vegas that we elected a stop. A... Continue reading »
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Vague Ass
After a brief detour back to Los Angeles (which confirmed I would be happy never to drive I-10 again), we headed back east, north on 15 and into Ne... Continue reading »
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Zion: Feelin' Hot, Hot, Hot!
Before I get to Zion, a quick interlude. Although we are confident many of you have stopped checking this blog since we never update it, we would l... Continue reading »
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Bryce
The drive from Zion to Bryce was short, but we gained a lot of elevation, and so when we rolled into the park it was a balmy 80 degrees. The clouds... Continue reading »
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El Grand Canyon
So as some of you may have heard, we had some reservations about visiting the Grand Canyon. It's not that we didn't care, per se, but we felt like... Continue reading »
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The End of the Road
We may or may not get disqualified from Editor's Pick for this, but I'm not sure there's any other choice. Instead of writing each individual entry... Continue reading »
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