4am boredom
I figured that a lot of my friends were posting their maps of the US. I wanted to see how much I'd actually seen.
My family went on vacations every summer, and we drove everywhere. They started small.
I learned the art of the bucket bath while tent camping at the lake an hour or two from Austin. I also learned that inflatable floaty mattresses meant to be used in pools make fairly good beds if you put sheets on them.
Then we got the pop up camper and were able to go further from home. Our first big trip was to the Grand Canyon. I was 5. Or 6. We went in summer so I could have been both if we went over my birthday.
That popup took us all over the country. Over both the Rocky and the Appalachain Mountains. From Myrtle Beach, SC to Disneyland in California. I remember Frank's Camp Ground in Sheboygan, Wisconsin far too well. Pit toilets. Over a swamp. Let me tell you, when the breeze is blowing the wrong way, you get a very interesting sensation. And to you people in Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma.... I'm sorry. There may be some very nice cities and wonderful things in them, but your countryside is very very boring. Not that I can talk. West Texas is like Mars, but with tumbleweeds.
Finally the popup was too old to fix anymore, and my parents upgraded to the apartment on wheels that is the current camper. 30ft long, pulled by our trusty Chevy van. We could take showers in the camper if we had a sewage hookup. And didn't have to trudge up a hill to go to the bathroom. It had a microwave. Unfortunately it only had one actual bed. My bed was the couch that folded down to a bed precisely 5' 6'' in length. By the time we got the camper, I'd hit my final height of 5'8''. Sleeping was interesting.
That camper, too, can tell stories. Of Route 666 in Dove Creek Colorado. Or of my very last vacation where we went back to Myrtle Beach. Of my cousins' first experience with snow as we returned to Pike's Peak. Of my 21st birthday where my parents flew my boyfriend and I out to meet them in Las Vegas.
Anyways.. that's my story as to why most of this map is red. I just had amazing, awesome, wonderful parents that took me away for 2-3 weeks during the summer to see a lot of this country. I grumbled and griped then. I am forever thankful, now.
visited 34 states (68%)
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My family went on vacations every summer, and we drove everywhere. They started small.
I learned the art of the bucket bath while tent camping at the lake an hour or two from Austin. I also learned that inflatable floaty mattresses meant to be used in pools make fairly good beds if you put sheets on them.
Then we got the pop up camper and were able to go further from home. Our first big trip was to the Grand Canyon. I was 5. Or 6. We went in summer so I could have been both if we went over my birthday.
That popup took us all over the country. Over both the Rocky and the Appalachain Mountains. From Myrtle Beach, SC to Disneyland in California. I remember Frank's Camp Ground in Sheboygan, Wisconsin far too well. Pit toilets. Over a swamp. Let me tell you, when the breeze is blowing the wrong way, you get a very interesting sensation. And to you people in Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma.... I'm sorry. There may be some very nice cities and wonderful things in them, but your countryside is very very boring. Not that I can talk. West Texas is like Mars, but with tumbleweeds.
Finally the popup was too old to fix anymore, and my parents upgraded to the apartment on wheels that is the current camper. 30ft long, pulled by our trusty Chevy van. We could take showers in the camper if we had a sewage hookup. And didn't have to trudge up a hill to go to the bathroom. It had a microwave. Unfortunately it only had one actual bed. My bed was the couch that folded down to a bed precisely 5' 6'' in length. By the time we got the camper, I'd hit my final height of 5'8''. Sleeping was interesting.
That camper, too, can tell stories. Of Route 666 in Dove Creek Colorado. Or of my very last vacation where we went back to Myrtle Beach. Of my cousins' first experience with snow as we returned to Pike's Peak. Of my 21st birthday where my parents flew my boyfriend and I out to meet them in Las Vegas.
Anyways.. that's my story as to why most of this map is red. I just had amazing, awesome, wonderful parents that took me away for 2-3 weeks during the summer to see a lot of this country. I grumbled and griped then. I am forever thankful, now.
visited 34 states (68%)
Create your own visited map of The United States or Like this? try: Visited Countries