It’s the final countdown!
Today was the last day of our west bound trip to San Francisco. With only fours hours of estimated drive time into Burlingame, we slept in a few hours later than our usual wake up time of 6 AM. After one final search of the hotel room, we loaded our things into [...]
It was a shorter travel day today as we planned to only go as far to Reno,NV… A good four hours under our usual twelve hour drives. It was an easy drive out of SLC as the salt lake beds were a straight shot, mile after mile of white flat lands.
The Nevada drive consisted mostly [...]
Today made for an interesting day as we left Nebraska behind and headed into the Wyoming highlands. The high head winds and the steep uphill inclines made the car struggle, but slow and steadily we made it up each hill.
While Wyoming had it’s challenges, I found the steep and curvey down hill roads leading into [...]
Today was a long day as we drove out of Indiana, crossed the northern part of Illinois and then coasted through the oh so exciting plains of Iowa and Nebraska.
Currently we’re shacked up in Motel 6 again as our attempt to camp out failed when the campsite we chose off the map ended up being [...]
After 12 hours and almost 800 miles I’m glad to say we’ve arrived in Gary, Indiana. It isn’t as far as we were hoping to get on day one, but that’s OK. I guess camping out will just have to wait… Maybe tomorrow.
OK, talk with you all soon. Next stop, Nebraska.