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(A letter I sent to my Aunt and Uncle. Sums up the trip ( Read more... )

No the van is fine Thank God, but my camera lens is jammed and it won't work! I just got out of the Grand Canyon (Awesome awesome awesome! Did a 12mile then a 17mile hike in two days :D), and am now in Pheonix, Arizona. The price to fix my camera isn't worth the price of the camera, but nobody sells similar brands so I can't replace it either. I ( Read more... )

I am in... some library just North of Salt Lake City, Yootah. First off BIGGEST apologies to my friends on the East coast. I REALLY wanted to make it over there, but these loooong solo drives are killing me (and the environment) so I'm going back to my original plan and heading South, then West, then back home ( Read more... )

Ok so I've been furiously studying up my new route and have completed filling in my handy dandy GPS unit with everything I want to see heading East. My first plan of action is to stay at a petrified forest campground tomorrow night after making it over the Cascade range. I don't intend to pay for campgrounds that often, but I'm getting major pre- ( Read more... )

I was supposed to leave months ago, but things kept coming up, and coming up, and coming up. Finally things settled down enough that I quit my job at the end of March with the intent of dealing with the rest of the to-do list on the road. Well I had been expecting a beneficiary check since the beginning of March, and when it didn't arrive by the ( Read more... )

Holy Cow has it already been a week since I stopped working!? Man time flies when the hours aren't dragging by at a painfully slow pace towards Friday. Almost scary actually. I've also been sleeping about 12 hours a day since I quit, so my days are short as it is. I am REALLY enjoying the guilty pleasures of sleeping in every morning, hanging ( Read more... )

Last week of work. I'll probably stick around for another week afterwords to rest and finish getting ready, but after that I'll be Southbound. There are still things to work out such as changes in my health insurance coverage, but with mom's help I'm going to get those sorted out while on the road. Although I will miss my boss and coworkers I am ( Read more... )

Yup I splurged on a new toy and a new experience. First I bought a GPS navigator, which is something I've been wanting for quite some time. So now I have a Garmin Nuvi 360 that I bought off Craigslist for $100, and it is so cool! Being mathematically dyslexic (aka: dyscalculia) I am always getting lost while driving, or maybe it's because I'm a ( Read more... )

I am very restless right now. The van is pretty much done and I am eager to quit work and leave on my "what the hell am I doing?" road trip. Long story short I am waiting for some really big checks to arrive because I don't have access to a lot of my savings right now, which is why I'm still stationary. Don't get me wrong I am so thankful to be ( Read more... )