Day 46 Update

Now that we’ve been driving west again, our trip feels like it’s coming to an end. We still have a few big stops left, but we’re starting to feel closer and closer to home. Our last day in Florida was defined by sticky heat and bugs. Our first stop in the morning was the Coral…

Day 29-Day 40

We have a lot of ground to cover- roughly from Philadelphia to Key West. We spent most of day 29 in Philly. Jan’s dream came true and he had a real philly cheese steak. The first place we went was the Reading Terminal Public Market. It was like a small scale Pike Place Market, but mostly…

New York City Part Two

Our first full day in the city was exhausting. But we were about to do it all over again. Our friend Adrian works and goes to school at the American Museum of Natural History. He’s working on his Master’s in teaching, and we met him there at around 10 for the grand tour. It was…

New York City Part One

It has been tough keeping up on the blog the last couple weeks. And we’ve seen so much, that the task has seemed more and more daunting. After leaving Cape Cod on July 20th, we drove straight down to New York City, because we had a dinner date with Jan’s friend Adrian and his boyfriend…

Day 24 Update

Since leaving Portland we’ve been doing a lot of driving. We made it up to Acadia National Park. It was pretty. But a lot of the post card views were again hidden by the fog. Most of our time there was spent driving around (half of the park loop is a one way road, so…

Day 20 Update

On Tuesday, July 11th we woke up in a campground in Illinois and headed towards downtown Chicago. The first major city since leaving Seattle. We both thought we would feel a little bit of culture shock, because, you know we’ve been livin’ on the road for so long now. But we didn’t really. It was…

Day 14 Update

We’ve been on the road for two weeks! It doesn’t feel like it’s been that long, although there are a couple things that are getting a little old. For one, trying to find a place to sleep every night. We have driven into (and then back out of) some odd campgrounds. And we’ve met our…

Day 8 Update

The time we spent in Yellowstone National Park was all about people. Our couple days there were spent battling crowds, trying to find places that didn’t have crowds, and laughing at the crowds. We did end up there during one of the worst times of the year, but the park was more full than I…

Day 5 Update

We learned a lot in the first few days. Mostly that Montana is beautiful, AND if you put dry ice in your Yeti cooler everything will freeze and explode. So it’s day 5 and we still have frozen cheese, frozen carrots, it smells like exploded kombucha and there are remnants of exploded eggs around the…

Day 0

I have no idea how to blog. I write periodically, but it is never shared with anyone. But, I will keep a growth mindset (I can do this!) so here goes nothing. Jan is out working on the van. The last thing we need to do is to get the secondary battery hooked up and…