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June 04, 2007
Roadtrip Retrospective
A few stats:
- Days: 16 (not counting the piddly little first day where we only drove up to Placerville).
- Miles driven: 6,161 in first car; 2,551in second car. 8,712 total.
- Lowest elevation point reached: 282 feet below sea level.
- Highest elevation point reached: 10,600 feet above sea level.
- States touched: 22 if you count CA (California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, New York, Kentucky, Tennesee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona).
- Highest temperature noted: 115 F
- Mazda RX-8s seen: 7.
- Vasectomy reversal billboards seen: 7.
- Family members visited/seen: 16, in 4 cities
- Internet peeps visited: 5, in 4 cities.
- Longest day of driving: about 14.5 hours
- Shortest day of driving: about 6 hours.
I'm going to do up a map of our route, but here's a list of the cities/destinations we hit, in the order we hit 'em:
- Placerville, CA (spent the night)
- Salina, UT (spent the night)
- Keystone, SD (spent the night)
- Mt. Rushmore
- The Badlands
- Wall Drug
- Winona, MN (spent the night)
- Aurora, OH (spent the night)
- Lafayette, NJ (spent the night)
- New York, New York
- Wilmington, DE
- North Brunswick, NJ
- Philadelphia, PA (spent the night)
- Centerville, OH (spent the night)
- Laurel, MS (spent the night)
- New Orleans, LA
- Austin, TX (spent the night)
- Las Cruces, NM (spent the night)
- Aguirre Springs National Recreation Area
- Santa Fe, NM
- Counties just north of Santa Fe so Twon could check 'em off
- Albuquerque, NM (spent the night)
- The Painted Desert
- The Petrified Forest
- St. George, UT (spent the night)
- Zion National Park
- The Grand Canyon
- Las Vegas, NV (spent the night)
- Mammoth Lakes, CA (spent the night)
It was a long, busy trip! Twon says his road trips are sort of like sampler platters - you don't really have enough time to see things thoroughly, but you get enough of a taste to know what you want to see next time. I'd say that's accurate. We blasted through a bunch of places and saw lots of awesome stuff. It was a great time all 'round. I'm still getting pix up and captioned (I just uploaded a handful of panorama views I couldn't stitch together until I got home) here. Enjoy!
I've wisely taken today and tomorrow off to get the apartment back into working order and to give myself time to recover, yay. But Wednesday, it's back to the grind. Sigh.
File under: Pure Ego!
Posted by Ealasaid at June 4, 2007 03:31 PM
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Welcome back!
Posted by: Jen at June 6, 2007 12:37 AM
States: 26. Missing: Indiana, Michigan, West Virginia, Georgia. (One serious one and three comparative cheapies.)
Posted by: Antwon at June 6, 2007 04:33 PM
sounds like you guys had lots of fun!
Posted by: Amparo at June 8, 2007 08:24 AM
Graphics from works 