Overview It's early spring in Virginia in March and Nancy and I have gotten cabin fever after being home for 3+ months from our 6 1/2-month cross country road trip to Alaska and we ready to hit the road once again. This short 1-month trip down through the south enabled us to experience spring through summer and then back to spring again while we travelled down to south Florida and back to our home in [...]
Overview We live a few miles outside of Round Hill Virginia up on the Blue Ridge and this is within easy striking distance of a great deal of the Shenandoah Valley area of Virginia. I grew up in this area of the country but have travelled widely across North America, and I still believe that the Shenandoah Valley is still one of the most beautiful areas. The last few years we have been road [...]
This is post 23 on our cross-country USA adventure as we travel along the Ohio River Scenic Byway to Cincinatti and finally home to VA on our 6-month adventure. The following areas in are covered in this post. Day 1: Louisville, KY to Covington, KY (day 182 of the overall trip) Louisville to Madison We leave Louisville and head back across the Ohio river to Indiana where we pick up Route 62. We're [...]
This is post 21 on our cross-country USA adventure as we travel though Utah and Colorado, on our 6-month adventure. The following areas in Utah and Colorado are covered in this post. Day 1: Prescott Valley to Monticello, UT (day 161 of the overall trip) On last year's road trip, we had 4 different stops in New Mexico as well as several in Texas. Even though it is warmer there, we opt to go north [...]
We've had a fantastic time in these first 5 months, but now it is time to head east toward our Virginia home. This post covers our journey to and across the southwest to a few stops in Arizona as our 6-month adventure continues. Day 1: San Diego to Lake Havasu City (day 153 of the overall trip) We're sad to leave San Diego, but we have a glorious drive planned for today that [...]
We are doing the last part of the west coast portion of our journey before heading east and home to Virginia. This post covers our 5 days in the last major city for us to visit: San Diego, California as our 6-month adventure continues. Day 1: Joshua Tree Area to San Diego (day 148 of the overall trip) San Diego We have decided to wind up the west coast portion of our 6-month adventure with [...]
After months in Alaska, we decided that we wanted to go where we know its going to be warm and not rain, so we are head off into the deserts of Nevada and California. This post Starts with us leaving Reno Nevada and covers our time in Tonopah Nevada, Death Valley National Park and Twentynine Palms California as our 6-month adventure continues. Day 1: Reno to Tonopah (day 141 of the overall trip) Reno to [...]
Our 6-month adventure continues as we travel south through Northern California. Day 1: The Transition to the Pacific Coast in Oregon (day 133 of the overall trip) We don't have far to travel today, but we want to take the scenic back country byway. We are heading north to the southern part of the Oregon Coast to a little town named Gold Beach. We head out of Mt Shasta on I-5 and while we typically don't [...]
Our 6-month adventure continues as we travel south through Washington, Oregon and Parts of Northern California. Volcanoes line the coast from Washington down through Northern California, some of which have recently erupted such as St Helens and Lassen. This post will cover the initial part of our way home out of Alaska this fall following much of the Volcanic Legacy Byway. It includes a number of State and National Parks dedicated to the volcanic activity in [...]
This post covers our last days traveling in Alaska and is filled with nights and days on the ferry as we transition back to the lower 48. Day 1: Transition to Whittier (day 119 of the overall trip) We've been sleeping on the ferry from Kodiak back to Homer. Poof - we wake up and it is an hour before we dock the ferry back in Homer at 9am. The teens who we talked about [...]
