After nearly 11 weeks on the road, we’re finally home! Thanks, New York, for welcoming us back with sleet and snow for our last couple hours of driving. Now to unpack!
Charleston, South Carolina: old-timey streets, architecture, and warships
The first things we noticed upon crossing over the South Carolina border on our way to Charleston were the billboards. There are a lot of billboards for guns (religion too, but that’s been the case for the entire south). Assault rifles and bibles…
Savannah, Georgia: mossy trees, fishy pizza, and a million lights
Today we left the rain in Atlanta behind, trading it for sunny skies a few hours east, in Savannah. One of the final stops of our trip!
Hot Springs National Park: why is this a thing?
Yesterday we left San Antonio and put the American southwest behind us, heading northeast toward Memphis. We figured ~11 hours in the car would be too much for one day, so we needed a place to stop—preferably somewhere interesting that we could spend…
Happy Thanksgiving from San Antonio!
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! We spent our turkey day seeing the sights in San Antonio, Texas. It’s a pretty fun city, even on a major holiday. We didn’t actually consider that things might be closed on Thanksgiving until this morning. Our…
Alpine, a tiny oasis in the Texan desert
For the first time in our 60+ day trip, we had a difficult time finding something to do with our time today. We arrived in Alpine, Texas—about 45 minutes outside Big Bend National Park, which brought us here—this afternoon around 3PM.…
Greetings from Carlsbad, New Mexico!
This morning we checked out of our room in El Paso after spending a total of about 12 hours in it. Leaving the city via I-10 east, we had our first good daytime look at the area and couldn’t believe how depressed…
A museum in the desert, of sorts
This will be a short post because I just finished sorting through about a thousand photos of hummingbirds (!), and now it’s late. Today we hung out at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson. Lori came across it online yesterday, and it…
Birds & bees of Saguaro National Park
We spent our first day in Tucson, Arizona, touring the eastern half of Saguaro National Park. This is easily the strangest national park we’ve visited so far. It’s essentially just miles and miles of saguaro cacti (and the various critters that live…
Hello from Twentynine Palms!
Greetings from Twentynine Palms, CA—about 100 miles north of the Mexican border. We’re here to check out Joshua Tree National Park for a day or two, before heading east to finally make our way back across the country toward home.…