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Show Notes
Here’s what happened and what I learned from our cross-country road trip in August of 2019
Highlights
- 6,800 miles in 26 days
- Enough time to form some new habits and perspectives in new places which was interesting
- Off for the month of August 2019
- Ending “unnecessary suffering”
- Trip was inspired by a conversation with my ACS classmate Karen Ahlquist combined with several upcoming trips
- Knowing how much it costs us to live and knowing exactly how much we have at any time made it much easier to decide to do this
- YNAB (You Need A Budget) software to manage our finances has been a game-changer
- Having just enough of a plan
- The tension between planning or not planning
- We made a big loop and drove through the following states (see maps below)
- Oregon
- Idaho
- Wyoming
- Nebraska
- Missouri
- Tennessee
- North Carolina
- Kentucky
- Ohio
- Michigan
- Illinois
- Wisconsin
- Minnesota
- South Dakota
- The result of simply being for the first week or so–reading and listening to very little
- Things that went well or paid off
- Prepared a month in advance
- Physical/paper maps
- Got our van serviced a few weeks before
- Long driving days and days of no driving
- If there was nothing to do or see that interested us after arriving at a location
- we moved on
- got us a few days ahead of schedule to do things we wanted to
- Stop before it’s too late in the day so there is time to wind down before going to sleep
- Making decisions on a full stomach
- Seeing a place in person
- Stopping at all the information places to find good camping
- Leaving early in the day makes it easier to wrack up the miles and cover more distance
- Stand-alone GPS unit (always had coverage) highly recommended
- Costco
- Thule box on the roof to hold camping gear and free up a ton of space in our van
- Living in the present vs. the tension of knowing what we would do the next day
- Sometimes choosing in advance
- Sometimes making it up the next day
- Next time
- Write a few bullets each day after dinner to capture what you seen and where you’ve been
- A better way to pool and manage all of our pictures
- Taking a few pictures every day
Outbound Route
Return Route
Credits
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