May 30th, 2009- by
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on the road 4. While driving from Eugene to Portland, I was so intent on finding my driver’s license that I overshot a stop sign by twenty feet, causing Chris to scream in a manner that made me question his sexual orientation. While I tried to tell him it was a calculated maneuver, cultivated from years of James Bondian-like driver’s training, Chris wasn’t buying it. No matter what happens for the rest of the trip, no matter how many speed limits I keep and tight corners I maneuver, this will be driving experience that Chris remembers from the trip.
So, I am back in the passenger seat where I belong, writing blogs and “navigating.” Chris is behind the wheel of Roxy Fusion, shooting me dirty looks as I stare longingly at the gear shaft. (Get your mind out of the gutter.) [...]
May 22nd, 2009- by
chris in
planning phaseJust 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 [...]
April 9th, 2009- by
jaime in
planning phaseNow, 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, [...]
March 15th, 2009- by
jaime in
planning phaseNow 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 [...]
March 8th, 2009- by
jaime in
planning phaseChris 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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