About Us

About Us: We’re two cousins, more like sisters, going on a trip across the US. Katie, a recent college graduate, aka, knower of all things, is accompanying her cousin Emily on this once-in-a-lifetime adventure before heading back to California where she'll start a teaching credential program so she can edumacate the young children. Emily, who, after living in Costa Rica for six months (CR Blog), thinks of herself as a traveling machine, convinced Katie to come on this next big adventure.

The Route: Northern California Bay Area natives, we will start by heading straight down to San Diego, California. Then we’ll take the “southernmost” route across the US from SD to Savannah, Georgia. From Savannah, we’ll hug the East Coast to Boston, and will ultimately end in New Hampshire, where we’ll spend a few days with our family out there. Katie will fly home to start school…again, and Emily will bum around NH for the summer! We hope you enjoy reading about our road trippin adventures!

We also feel we should add that we bought a book called Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways, written by Jamie Jensen, and have used it as the backbone of our journey. We followed a LOT of Jamie's suggestions and used information in the book to help tell about the places we went in our blog. So, if you're ever planning a x-country road trip, his website is a great place to start, and you can't beat having the book with you on the road!

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Carls-worst

Get excited to hear all about our trip through New Mexico, and most importantly, about Carlsbad, which I renamed CarlsWORST!


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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Conquering the Wild West!

After a good night’s rest, we got up in the morning excited to enjoy our space-sized breakfast and coffee!  The Best Western Space Age diner did not disappoint.  We had the best pancake breakfast ever and gigantic cups of coffee with “saucers” (get it? Sacuer? Space?  Pretty great!).  Energized and ready to hit the road, we left Gila Bend in search of The Thing, followed by Tombstone!

But first, we had to stop in Tucson to gas up and also because KR and I decided that we should get some food for our cooler so we could eat lunches on the fly.  We also thought it would be a good money saving technique/allow us to avoid eating “out” and/or fast food all the time.  When we asked Siri to help us locate a grocery store, we were thrilled to find that there was a local co-op, and we were even more thrilled when the surrounding blocks turned out to be like a little Arizona version of Berkeley.  It was great!  Needless to say, we stocked up on some fruit and veggies and fixins for pb&j sammies!  Other than those few blocks though, Tucson didn’t have too much to offer.  On to… THE THING!

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Peace out, California!

Being the early birds that we are, Em and I finally hauled our tails out of Kate’s house by 9am on Friday.  We drove out of San Diego through the beautiful mountains on Historic 80 and made our first stop at the Desert View Tower.  The tower boasts a four-story view of the sprawling Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.  As a side note, the tower had lots of “liberally biased” magnets and bumper stickers for sale, which I was beyond excited about.  Another side note, do not visit the tower if you are concerned about making sure your hair looks acceptable in public.
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Friday, May 25, 2012

Pacific Coast: Check


By 8:30 a.m., Emily was out of her house in Pleasanton and on her way to pick up Katie at her house in Livermore.  That means we were out on the open road by 9 a.m., only an hour after our ETD (expected time of departure, duh!).  We felt like that was a pretty great start since there was just stuff that needed to be done yo!
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