Here’s a few from the city of “brotherly love” and I don’t mean Philadelphia.
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Our Situation
August 23, 2010 By
After almost 3 weeks on the road, we were so busy catching up on Season 2 of the Jersey Shore that I didn’t have time to post at all yesterday. The Sopranos gave New Jersey such a bad name so its really great that people can now see what life is really like in New Jersey. Hat’s off to MTV for providing such great reality television programing.
CrankWorx @ Whistler
August 13, 2010 By
We made it to the mtn and Crankworx MTB festival is this week. Free bike demos all week, wish we got here sooner.
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C.M. Russell Museum
August 8, 2010 By
Charles Marion Russell did a great job of documenting native american life at the turn of the century. If you’re on your way to Glacier NP it’s worth a stop.
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Theodore Roosevelt National Park
August 7, 2010 By
The Little Misiouri River lined with Cottonwood and Juniper trees and Sagebrush in the foreground.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
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Walker art center
August 6, 2010 By
Just a quick pic as we were riding by…crazy building and crazier collection inside.
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lazy morning
August 6, 2010 By
We slept in and pigged out at breakfast this morning so we’re just now getting on the road. The plan is to hit up the Uptown Art Festival here in Minneapolis.
Last night we met a local guy at the bar who gave us some beta on the city. Turns out he is really well traveled and might hook us up with some people in Alberta, Canada as well. Thanks Jim.
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Road trippin’
August 4, 2010 By
Just wanted to give a little background on this road trip in case you are wondering what the hell I am doing in Indiana.
The origins of the trip are very practical: Vera and I are moving out to California so we needed to transport our cars from NJ. After weighing the various options (U-haul, moving truck, etc.) we came back to my favorite option: drive. The only issue with driving is that we both wanted to bring our cars but wanted to ride together. Fortunately my friend and coworker Jon Mahon offered to drive my car so Vera and I could ride together. So with that taken care of all we had to do was choose a route.
Last summer we made a trip out of delivering my mothers car from New Jersey, through D.C., Bad Lands National Park in South Dakota, Mt. Rushmore, Yellowstone and Grand Teton NP, Moab, Utah, Las Vegas and finally Los Angeles. The trip was truly epic, and I never though I would have another opportunity like it.
Well the stars all seemed to align so we found ourselves planning another road trip less than a year later. We initially started to plan a southern route but reconsidered after thinking about Utah and the 105 degree heat. We’ll hit up Austin, Sante Fe, etc. next time but not in the summer.
So north by northwest it is. We decided to plan a trip through Montana to check out Glacier National Park before heading down through Oregon and California. After we thought about it we considered our lack of time constraints and realized Vancouver, B.C. is totally doable. So as I write this on my blackberry with my thumbs begging me to stop we do not have any concrete plans. We’re just going to freestyle it see where we end up.
“The journey is the destination” (Not sure who said it first but Google probably knows.). I think that pretty much sums up our philosophy for this trip. I’m really looking forward to checking out areas I wouldn’t normally consider “destinations” in and of themselves. This is not to say that I’m too cool for school. I’m a bonafide tourist, there’s no shame in that.
Alright so just wanted to get that out there really more for myself so I can look back to see where we thought we were going vs. where we end up. I’m going to give my thumbs a rest. The lady trapped inside my GPS tells me we are 2 hours outside Chicago.
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