Staying Organized on the Road
A six-week road trip is an amazing experience, but it also creates plenty of opportunities for total chaos. Staying organized during the journey was a challenge. Basically we were living out of the Jeep, carrying all our gear and just re-supplying perishables on stops along the route.
We had to come up with a work-able solution [...]
Museums on the Road
In many ways, a road trip seems the antithesis of a museum visit — the primal idea of the road trip is to get out there and see and do things in the first-person, while a museum is a place we go to view what others have discovered and assembled into collections. But with so [...]
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 [...]
Ready, Set, Go!
A few days before departure I finally started to get a bit “excited” about the trip. I know that sounds strange, as we had been planning for months! But maybe because we HAD been planning for months, “working on the trip plans” became almost “routine,” and I didn’t allow myself the luxury of getting really [...]
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 [...]
Time for a New Tent
We have been going tent camping for years, but never for more than a few days at a time, and as soon as it rained more heavily than a “sprinkle” we’d always bee-line it for the nearest motel.
This time it would be different. After outlining our basic itinerary, it became clear that we would be [...]
Narrowing down the tent choices
The all important tent question is still lingering on…
Today we ordered the cots and some other miscellaneous camp gear from Cabela’s (had to get them before the sale ends, and while the free shipping offer is still good), but am still hesitating on the tent. Looking around a bit more at tents, am wondering if [...]
Time to think about a new tent…
We should probably start talking about what kind of tent or tents we should bring.
After outlining our basic itinerary, it looks like we will be camping out for about 21-28 days, more or less, depending on if we choose motels or campgrounds along some parts of the route. And the camping will vary from well-equipped [...]
The challenge of organization…
So the trip is about 9 months off. Why are we starting to plan now?
Well, actually, the challenge is going to be how to balance proper planning with such a long long wait before departure.
Of course, there are those people who would just take the keys and get in the jeep and drive… But they [...]
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