Yet another weather novelty for us is the monsoon. It is less strong than the ones in Asia apparently, but none the less, we have experienced a few things we hadn’t before. We saw an extended lightning storm without a…
The Best of Our HiJenx Journey / And the Winner is…
The best beach of the journey was easily Panama City Beach, Florida: The best sunset was in Albuquerque, New Mexico: The best drive of the trip is a three way tie between driving down the Florida Keys: Driving down Florida’s Atlantic Coast from…
Top 5 Best U.S. States
Here is the video of our top five states: 5) South Carolina South Carolina is beautiful, especially the coastal areas. It has the beautiful, successful city of Charleston. We learned that the city are actively courting tech companies, which makes it…
Journey Surprises Part 2
Here’s the video: The US is a very religiously diverse country, so maybe we should have been expecting cowboys to have their own church, but this was still a big surprise to us both: European style basilicas in the middle of…
Regional Roundup 9: Florida
Florida is its own region due to being huge. It was amazing and easily one of our favorite states and regions. It has many options for places to live, a fairly low cost of living for what you get and a…
Day 78: Rural Florida and Alabama
We had one more dip in the gulf and then unfortunately had to carry on. I do like traveling, but this was hard to leave: Almost as soon as we left the coast, the Florida panhandle got very rural very…
Day 77: Panama City Beach, Florida
We decided we needed to make some very serious distance due to spending so much time in Florida. We have really loved it, but it still only 29 out of 48 we intend to travel to, so Chris drove 350…
Day 76: Venice and Tampa, Florida
After an excellent night in Naples, we headed north. The first city we checked out, Venice, turned out to mainly because retirement or snowbird community, that is, many people with homes there live in the north of the US most…
Day 75: Miami, Alligators and Naples, Florida
After a rough time at the Miami Airport Days Inn (see previous post), we finally got going at 1 PM. We attempted to see Miami itself, despite starting several hours later than hoped. This was a challenge as there is…
Day 74: Mile Zero and the Southernmost Point
We were a little worried the return would not be as good as going out. Obviously it never can be, but we still managed to find some new and unique things on the way back that we’d missed on the…