14,000 miles

200 friends

48 days

one car

one life

The Battle of Idaho

But, ever convinced that our way was the right way, Chris and I duly ignored all of the naysayers. As we drove off into the sunrise on May 29, 2009, I uttered the following soon-to-become historic words: “People are nuts. I don’t think we’ll have any fights on this trip [...]

Running Out of Time

It’s T minus five days and counting and my Wedding Road Trip to do list still has more than seventy things on it. Add to that three freelance assignments due tomorrow and you’ll understand why I am desperately hoping that if I can just find the magic stopwatch, the world will pause for a [...]

Love and Taxes

Jaime and I recently had our first blowup fight. As in, I was left standing on the street at 1 AM without my phone, wallet, keys, or a jacket. You are probably guessing the fight was about the wedding road trip route, a bachelor party, or our wedding colors.

Oh no. We had a knock-down and drag-out fight [...]

Drawing the Map aka Battle Royale

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 [...]