Camping Across America
Camping across America is a great way to really see the country up close and personal. It is also a very affordable way to travel. But camping is not for everyone. And not everyone has the same idea about what camping means.
For some, it means minimal supplies, tent and sleeping bags, in a remote area [...]
Reservations or Not?
To make or not to make reservations… that is the question. But seriously, planning a trip of this length, we really DID have to make some decisions about advance reservations versus the spontanaeity of the road.
Like most travellers who chose to take Route 66, we wanted room for spontaneity and time to discover things as [...]
Planning One Day in a City
One of the biggest challenges we faced on our trip was the lack of time to really “take in” any one place. Of course, we knew that would be the case when we decided to do such an intense road trip, but we still wanted to make the most of our stopovers.
Cities were especially difficult. [...]
Which Way Do We Go?
While Route 66 was the raison d’être of our trip, we would actually have to travel a lot more. First, we would have to get from New York to Chicago, to the Route’s starting point, and then we would have to get back to New York from California, once we made it out there.
Now [...]
New York, a starting point…
Long Island, New York–halfway between the Hamptons beaches and Manhattan skyscrapers, out here among the strip malls and cookie cutter houses of suburbia, the adventure begins. With the team gathered, we can focus on our final preparations for the journey. We still haven’t quite figured out how to fit everything for 6 weeks into the [...]
Let’s Take a Road Trip…
SOME FRIENDS, A JEEP AND A DREAM
It started out simple enough — the old “wouldn’t it be fun to…” kind of idle chat between two friends on a lazy summer afternoon.
“Wouldn’t it be fun to take the Jeep and drive Route 66 to California…”
Between us, “Cactus Killer” and I had done an awful lot of [...]
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