Getting ready in February, March, and April of 2010:
- Where to go and when
- Privileged
- Hell or high water
- Getting out
- Using both Optional Methods
- Trying to cram it all in
- Another step forward
- The map is filling up
- First stop
- Still waiting
- Fighting rejection
- We're still planning
- Count down to lift off
- The great pack up
- Goodbye tiny casa
- What have we done?
- Pain in the neck and the art of auto maintenance
- Following the rabbit down the hole
Part one, at last we are on our way in May, 2010, traveling East across the big dry of the Southwest:
- Feeling weepy
- What, only day two?
- Resting our weary heads
- The first long stretch
- Grand Canyon
- Camping in Sedona
- Thank goodness for birds
- Lonely roads
- More Sedona
- Onward to Cave Creek
- Cave Creek
- Saguaro
- Gila cliff dwelings
- East Texas
- El Cosmico
- Marfa to Austin
- Austin
- Austin to Dallas
- Frisco Texas style
- Made it to OK city, summing up the first leg of the Big Trip
Part two, into the big green wet in June. We continue East to Congaree National Park crossing Arkansas, Tennessee, and Georgia:
- Soda pop on route 66, Oklahoma
- Artsy Oklahoma
- Bakery and dance hall in OK
- Onward to the Ozarks
- Ozarks green
- To Little Rock
- Joy juice
- Little Rock's big piles
- Duck parade
- Graceland
- Tennessee waffles
- People in TN
- Athens, GA
- Paradise
- Cool Memphis
- Congaree at last!
Part three, North through the Carolinas and Virginia driving part of the Blue Ridge Parkway:
- Madness on the state line
- Hello Chiggers
- Little bridge
- Hanging Rock
- D.C.
- Blue Ridge
- King of Buttons
- Shenandoah
- Potomac wetland
- More D.C.
- And more D.C.
Part four, the big cities of the East, some not so big cities, and the 4th of July in rural Mass:
- Baltimore
- New York and Coney Island
- Poughkeepsie
- The Hudson River Bridge
- New Paltz, Kingston, and Woodstock
- Rhode Island rocky shore
- Boston
- Providence
- Hatfield and blueberries
- U Mass 4th of July and the Eric Carle Museum
- Middle of the trip!
- More visiting in Mass before heading North
Part five, a too short week in Canada:
- Crossing Vermont
- Oh, Canada
- Montreal night
- Montreal archeology
- Moving on to Toronto
- Toronto art
- Niagra
Part six, back in the U.S. of A., Michigan and Chicago:
- It's a Jiffy!
- Tornado warning in Michigan
- Ann Arbor fairies
- Michigan chickens
- Walking Chicago
- Millennium Park
- Chicago photos
- French market
- Photographing other people's homes
- Another Chicago art museum
- Quimby's, Chicago
- Calling all Lithuanians
Part seven, back to MO and into the corn:
- A big storm keeps us out of the City Museum
- Ozarkland
- Jefferson City, state capitol
- Kansas City BBQ
- Running trough the corn
- Badlands and Rushmore
- Into Wyoming
- Yellowstone at dawn
Last part, lots of jumping with good clouds on the Oregon trail and racing home in August 2010:
- Jumping Idaho
- Craters of the moon
- Really old Oregon
- Trough the wheat to the Columbia Gorge
- Oregon beach
- Back in Portland and travel fatigue
- The longest drive
- Home!
- Adding it all up
That's all folks! There will be more adventures but The Big Trip will be the yardstick to measure them up. I doubt we'll ever have the circumstances to road trip for three months again... then again...