Our second full year in Arizona was a bit less intense than the first one, but I still feel we had a lot to learn. Chris started off contracting and was upgraded to being a full time employee, so that…
A Taste of San Francisco
We recently went to San Francisco as Chris had a conference there for work. As long term readers know, we’d been before. It was a very different experience this time. I noticed completely different things, which is not surprising as…
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…
LoJenx of the Journey
Naturally, the trip wasn’t all roses. This is the worst of the trip, things that have stuck with us as negatives. The worst driving still goes to Indiana. Even though Boston, the Bronx and California were challenging, as were most…
Journey Surprises Part 1
Here’s the video: The sculpture park in South Dakota was still one of the oddest and definitely most surprising experiences. It ties in with the more general unexpectedness of all the roadside things people have built in this country. Even…
Regional Roundup 10: California
California is also easily its own region with its 38 million people and several climates within one massive state. It has beautiful beaches with great weather, but that said, it is in a horrible drought that we were told was made…
Regional Roundup 5: The Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest most definitely includes Oregon and Washington State. We are choosing to include the far north of California as well, as it felt more similar to Oregon than to San Francisco. The top of Idaho can go in as well,…
Day 125-126: Counter Culture and the California Coast
We headed up north. It was meant to be a big driving day, but we got distracted. It was fun though. We stopped at the Solar Living Center, which was all very hippie. We spoke to some people selling mood…
Day 123-124: San Francisco, California
We met up with Cirsten mid-morning in Half Moon Bay. We met her very lovely niece, who had worked at Google, but quit to stay home with her adorable daughter. We learned that, as expected, Google are quite a demanding…
Day 122: Silicon Valley
First thing in the morning, we headed to Cupertino, home of Apple: Apple got to create and name its own road, Infinite Loop. We became very familiar with this loop as it is nearly impossible to park there. We got…