Across the USA

 

This was my second trip across the USA.  I drove this beast, while my sister drove my Dad's Honda CRV.  Everything went pretty smoothly, even some snowy weather through Utah and Wyoming.  We managed to miss the storm itself by a day, thanks to navigation decisions by my sister.  The highway through Wyoming was absolutely torn up though after the storm, and the biggest worry became monster potholes that had obviously undone a number of 18-wheelers parked on the side of the highway.

This was my second journey across.  Way back in what must have been 2007 (actually it was 2006) I drove from Washington, D.C. to Bellingham, WA to stay with my Dad.  I ended up working in a kayak factory for a year before moving to South Korea to teach English for 12 years.

This time, after cleaning out my Dad's house for sale, we took a more southerly route.  The general goal was five days, four nights.  If memory serves, it was Bellingham to Boise, Boise to Rawlins, Wyoming, Rawlins to Kansas City, Kansas City to Cambridge, Ohio, then Cambridge to the Baltimore area.  (The last day of driving was pleasantly light.)

Rawlins to Kansas City was about 785 in one day.

Anyhow, this is very much a young person's game and I hope I never have to do it again.  Maybe if I was driving in a car with somebody who could take over, but it's just exhausting, and the number of jackasses with licenses in this country knows no bounds.

Worth documenting I guess.  My two kitties were surprisingly well behaved.  I left the Whatcom County Humane Society with a can of cat-targeted pheromone spray, which had the calming effect it was intended to have.  I'd never heard of the stuff, but apparently you can get it over the counter.  There is no version for dogs, as far as I know.