Destination: Love’s Travel Center, 80 miles North of Chattanooga, TN State Count: 8End of Day Odometer: 340,527km Progress Map: We started the morning off by heading over to Hendrick Toyota Scion in Merriam for an oil change. It was the most delightful oil change experience I’ve had in years, and the dealership was pretty nice […]
Destination: Liberty, MO (North of Kansas City) State Count: 5End of Day Odometer: 339,471km John started the day off right with eating a couple of the leftover ribs from Oklahoma Joe’s, and then we headed over to McDonald’s to use some of their delightfully free wifi for which to upload pictures and send emails. After […]
Destination: Liberty, MO (North of Kansas City) State Count: 4End of Day Odometer: 339,361km Progress Map: We woke up a bit earlier today as we actually had a timeline in mind and wanted to make sure we could get to Kansas City in time to eat some barbeque for supper. I just want to say, […]
Destination: Denver, CO State Count: 3End of Day Odometer: 338,301km We woke up relatively late after arriving at the Flying J pretty late on Day 1, and despite a long drive today, Denver is just a stepping stone on the way to our first actual stop in Kansas City so we have no real plans […]
Destination: Great Falls, MT Start of Day Odometer: 336,502kmEnd of Day Odometer: 337,042km We had the van cleaned right before we left for the trip, which was appreciated since it was full of aluminum dust from all that work we did to make the sleeping platform. After work we loaded up the van and we […]
Day 0: May 14, 2014 It’s that time again, road trip time that is and in the spirit of road trips gone by I have decided to document the journey from Calgary down to Orlando, Florida through Kansas City and up the east coast of North America to Maine and then back. I’ve done a […]
Destination: Calgary, AB End of day Odometer Reading: 225,710km We decided not to aim for any specific time to leave the cabin in Kaslo, as we didn’t really feel the need. There is a ferry you need to catch to cross the lake, but we figured whenever we got there that would be just fine. […]
Destination: Kaslo, BC End of day Odometer Reading: 225,120km The cabin isn’t exactly a large building, so when someone wakes up, most other people wake up. Jeff’s aunt and uncle wake up early, which is considerably earlier than the previous usage of “early” in this blog. So after staying in a semi-awake/semi-asleep state for a […]
Destination: Kaslo, BC End of day Odometer Reading: 225,100km We woke up and left Joel’s grandparents place early and headed out towards Kaslo. Along the way we stopped in Princeton, BC for lunch at a place called Billy’s Family Restaurant. It wasn’t bad at all, Joel had a club sandwich, which had very nice turkey […]
Destination: White Rock, BC End of day Odometer Reading: 224,300km We slept in a little bit this morning, but had some pizza buns for “breakfast,” after which we headed into Vancouver to UBC to meet up with a friend who has just moved out to North Vancouver two weeks ago. After meeting up, we headed […]