Leaving the Great Lakes area, Daniel and I kept heading west across the plain states. South Dakota South Dakota has the most monotonous landscape I’ve ever seen. It’s just flat farmland as far as the horizon for hours and hours. We saw fields of corn, alfalfa, sunflowers (which were at least sort of colorful), sugar…
After going up the east coast Daniel and I turned west and headed to the Great Lakes. Other than out the window of an airplane, I’d never seen the lakes, so I was excited for this part of our trip. Erie, Pennsylvania The drive from Boston to Erie was long but beautiful. We drove through…
From Raleigh-Durham Daniel and I continued driving north up the east coast. On our way through Virginia we stopped at Colonial Williamsburg, a town recreated to look like a colonial village and staffed with actors who go around in old-timey dress doing old-timey jobs. It’s kind of like a big interactive museum. We saw “George…
Erika and I spent about a week in North Carolina. New Bern New Bern is a town of around 30k people at the fork where the Trent and Nuese rivers meet. It’s near the Atlantic ocean, but not quite coastal. Its location gives it a warm and muggy climate in the summer. New Bern’s main…
Daniel and I were in South Carolina for about two weeks. Here are some of the places we went and some of the things we did and saw: Aiken After a week on the road going from hotel room to hotel room we decided to get an AirBnB in Aiken, South Carolina for a few…
Daniel and I have had a longstanding discussion over whether or not Texas is considered “in the South”. According to him, Texas is a Southern state, but according to anyone who grew up outside of Texas, it clearly isn’t. No one drives through Amarillo and looks around at the tan plains and thinks it looks…
There is no good way to drive through the South during the summer. It’s hot, humid, and unpleasant the entire season. Daniel and I wanted to drive though the country in a large loop, but hadn’t decided on the direction of our route. If we were to go counterclockwise we would go through that part…
Confession, I may be addicted to coffee. I never drank coffee regularly until I started getting it free at work. It’s true what they say, the first hit is always free, but the later ones cost you. All that being said, during our travels one of the creature comforts I’ve tried to keep up wherever…
From my parent’s home near Santa Barbara Daniel and I drove down to San Diego, where we stayed for three days. Even though San Diego is only three and a half hours from where I grew up and one of my younger sisters went to college at San Diego State, I hadn’t visited the city…
At the end of May Daniel and I flew from Scotland back to California. Originally we had been planning on coming back to the States around this time because we had two family weddings scheduled for the summer; however due the pandemic both of these have been postponed. After thinking it over we decided to…