After spending the night in Oklahoma city, I followed state highway 66, which follows the old Route 66 to the Kansas border, cuts through Kansas for 14 miles and then goes into Missouri. more “Road Trip: Route 66 to Chicago”
After spending the night camping at the Grand Canyon, I made my way to Flagstaff to finally start making some real progress eastward. I really wanted to follow Route 66, also known as America’s Main Street and the Mother Road. more “Road Trip: Route 66 to Santa Fe”
One of the things confronting all Peace Corps invitees is how to put their life on hold for 27 months, and what that means for their own situation. Luckily for me, it is relatively easy, as I don’t own a home, don’t have credit card debt, don’t own a car and don’t actually have that much stuff. The stuff that I do have, I can easily store at my folks’ place while I’m gone. The only difficult part to that is that I currently live on the West Coast, with my stuff including my dad’s car, and they live in Michigan. Which means, road trip. And I want to take plenty of time to complete this trip and gorge myself on all that America has to offer before I leave. more “Road Trip: Oregon to Michigan”