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Just for fun, I put together The World’s Most Basic Map of our road trip stops. (NOTE: I’m an urban planner, and yes I can make decent maps, but there’s a limit to what I can do with Microsoft Paint, which is the most advanced graphics program on my personal [...] The main reaction we hear when explaining our trip to people is delight and amazement. “That sounds great,” “how cool,” “wish I had done that for our wedding” (that’s my favorite). However, a surprisingly frequent response is “that sounds so relaxing” or “what a great vacation!” I hate to break it to everyone, but… this is not going to be a pleasure [...] Now, if our Wedding Road Trip was all about seeing our country majesty, sweet land of liberty, we’d be KOA’ing it up from West to East and North to South. Okay, that’s a lie. I do not KOA. I Holiday! But still… we’d be taking more time to smell the citrus and using less time figuring out the fastest route between Grand Rapids, Michigan and Wausau, [...] Now that Chris and I have pretty much settled on a route for our road trip, we’re starting to contact people about the when and where of our little journey. Now, I know in this day and age (god, I sound like my grandmother) people are commitment phobes, but I had no idea that saving [...] Thanks to the economy, Chris has been given Fridays off… woo hoo! Oh sure, there’s that little thing called a “pay cut” involved, but seriously, a minor detail. I mean, who needs money when you’ve got love? (Sorry. I got distracted for a second by a commercial for the iPhone. Damn. I want an iPhone. Love [...] Chris and I got together this afternoon to work on the first iteration of the road trip route. As we fueled ourselves with lowfat mozzarella, wheat crust, deep dish pizza, we poured over a map, leftover from my Steps Across America days. Everything was going fine… until we hit the southern part of the United [...] |
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