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Labor day a year ago, I was waking up at 4:30 AM and heading out onto the Nina Moose River with a rented canoe, heading toward Lake Agnes in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. This year on Labor Day? I’m writing blog posts in order to avoid doing readings for school. What a difference a [...]

Here ‘is: Get my truck serviced. Move the rest of my non-trip stuff into storage. Move my trip stuff out of storage. Buy a JetBoil. Make reservations for Boundary Waters and other parts of the trip that need reservations. Get signed up on health insurance. Get my interim mailing address squared away. Study for the [...]

Don’t know how long I should keep doing this, but I put up a couple of new posts on 48stateroadtrip.com. New Road Trip Itinerary (version 9!) Recurring Trip Themes (version 1) So maybe check those out. If you want. bkd

Still not leaving for another (let’s count ‘em!) 67 days, but I launched a new cross-country road trip website (the URL: www.48stateroadtrip.com) to accommodate its chronicling. There’s a new version of the itinerary there, for instance. Actually, that’s all that’s there. But anyway — I’ll probably post more stuff there, maybe update your bookmarks accordingly. [...]

Here’s the latest version of the roadtrip. It’s still getting tweaked. And full. It’s been run out to 114 days, although at least seven of those are more personal than roadtrip. First, map: So I’ve written off South Florida. I think that needs to be a separate trip during the earlier part of the year [...]

Someday. I’m thinking spring departure and going counter-clockwise might be better than summer and clockwise (if nothing else, it should help avoid the problems of hurricane season). Anyway, here’s a map of the latest idea:  The push-pins are only sort-of significant. – [ ] Day 1 – [ ] Mission Viejo to Grand Staircase-Escalante NM [...]

A follow-up to my initial cross-country road trip plans. Been thinking about this a little bit more and I figure, yes, three months is the right length. Maybe 3.5. I mean, if I don’t suffer due to the length and squalor, I haven’t really accomplished what I set out to do, right? Which brings me [...]

Not sure when I’m going to get around to it, but I’m planning on taking a three- or four-month cross-country road trip. I’d be interested to hear what anyone has to say about where I should or shouldn’t go. Here are my priorities: States I’ve never set foot or tire in (from left to right: [...]