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…
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 2: The Midwest
The Midwest includes everything between North Dakota and Michigan and then down to Kansas and across to Ohio. Pluses for the Midwest include the relatively low cost of living. The Northern Midwest in particular is generally very well run in terms…
Day 13 Part 2: Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska
Next we went through Kansas City, which is actually two cities apparently, one in Kansas, one in Missouri, which brought us to the next state of the day. It was not nice. It was the first place we went that…
Day 13 Part 1: Tonganoxie
We got out of Topeka as quickly as we could. The hotel managed to be efficient in exclusively one way – clearing away breakfast. We got there at 9:03 and there wasn’t even coffee. Anyway, we got on the road and…
Day 12: Churches & Cicadas (or how we ended up at the Westboro Baptist Church)
Due to doing laundry and going for a swim in Salina, we didn’t get on the road very early. As a result, this was a day where we didn’t get as far. That was acceptable though, as plenty of interesting…
Day 11: Across Kansas
We crossed the Colorado/Kansas border first thing in the morning. It was indeed as flat as everyone says it is, but Chris managed to find several gems that made it more interesting than I expected, as he is bound and…