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Indiana: Closed for Construction

Indiana: Closed for Construction

June 7, 2010 No Comments

It started with an hour in stop and go traffic.  Stop as in complete, turn off the engine, roll down the windows and meet your neighbor stop.  Go as in “Yay! 20 mph!  … oh, slow down … slow … yeah, may as well turn off the engine.” After we passed the steamrollers rolling down […]

Day 2, Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: Toll booths

Lessons Learned: Toll booths

June 7, 2010 No Comments

When you rent a car, ask the rental folks how the toll system works.  Even more importantly, be sure that the system they are giving you works. If you don’t know how the toll system works, stop at the ticket booth.  Don’t assume that because you have one of those ez-pass things in your glove […]

Day 1, Lessons Learned

California … The Finish Line!

Final time:  4:57pm (Mountain Time) Final Mileage:  7,058.6 Driver:  Colleen Song:  Mama, You Got A Daughter (John Lee Hooker)...

Nevada

Time:  4:42pm (Mountain Time) Mileage:  7,041.2 Driver:  Colleen Song:  Sunshine Day (Brady Bunch) A quick trip by Laughlin and...

Arizona

Time:  10:25am Mileage:  6,634.7 Driver:  Colleen Song:  Expressway to your Heart (Soul  Survivors) There is scenery everwhere!  The rain...

And now for a brief intermission …

FOUR CORNERS:  NEW MEXICO, UTAH, COLORADO & ARIZONA But it’s Navajo Nation territory. And it’s under construction … the...

New Mexico

Time:  9:28am Mileage:  6,630.7 Driver:  Colleen Song:  Bluer Than Blue (Michael Johnson) New Mexico, we hardly knew ya …....

Colorado

Time:  8:54am Mileage:  6,591.9 Driver:  Colleen Song:  Wild String (Moody Blues) Rain, rain, go away … some pretty good...

And so the beginning of the end…

Our last day.  We’re heading south through Utah.  Roughly 700 miles left.  We’ve completed our national tour of McDonalds,...

Utah

Time: 7:02 pm Mileage: 6,123.7 Driver: Colleen Song: Bolero (Paradise Road Soundtrack) So far, no road construction. This would...

Cowboy Sighting

Texas – Nothing. Oklahoma – Nothing. Montana – Nothing. Wyoming – Nothing. But Idaho has cowboys. Real live horse-riding,...

Says it all …