Yellowstone
July 11th and 12th No American road trip would be complete without a stay at one of the USA’s many national parks. Ulysses S. Grant established Yellowstone Park, the world’s first national park, in the late 1800’s. His motivation was to preserve a part of this country’s raw landscape for future generations to enjoy. After visiting this magnificent park, we are grateful to Mr. Grant for his vision. Another planet? Nope. It's Mammoth... Read More
Road Trip Resources and Western Cities
Well, here we are. After months of planning we are finally on the road to explore the wild west. It hasn’t taken us long to figure out what things we cannot live without, and what resources are making this trip go much smoother. Self Portrait in Colorado, Roosevelt National Forest If you are planning an American road trip, I highly recommend the book “Next Exit.” I bought my copy used on Amazon. You can look up any interstate highway... Read More
Kentucky Road Trip
It was the summer after my first year of college. I had spent the entire three months working for the American Red Cross in my small county in Ohio and was itching for an escape. So, my boyfriend and I planned a trip to Kentucky for early August, before he would leave to China for a semester abroad. This was also our first trip together and it felt very grown-up, even though it was only five day trip. We loaded up his family’s Volvo... Read More
Border Crossing
It was a weekday morning last beautiful June when we entered into Canada via a rural Alberta check point. All three of us had showered the night before, an unfortunate rarity of the road trip, and all of us were wearing glasses (an important image to save for later on in the story). We were asked to pull the Civic over, present our passports for further inspection, and exit the vehicle. Standing in a line, the boarder cop asked a few harmless... Read More
Hiking Cracker Lake
After a nearly failed attempt at making oatmeal by campfire, we geared up for a 12-mile hike to visit Cracker Lake. All we knew was that it came recommended by the wonderfully awkward junior forest ranger (his voiced cracked when he spoke to me about ‘Cracker Lake’ so of course I thought it would be a perfect trip) and a fantastic chance to put some miles on our feet, instead of on the Civic’s wheels. The first few miles weren’t... Read More
Modern Day Covered Wagon
When I told folks that a week after graduation my plans included a two-week cross-country road trip with my boyfriend and his younger brother, ‘they’ told me I was crazy; ‘they’ said that I had no idea what I was getting into; and ‘they’ wished us luck. You know what? Sometimes ‘they’ are wrong… and sometimes they are right. All I knew was that a road trip starting in Boston, Massachusetts... Read More
