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!

Saturday, June 2, 2012

We're In It Now...

By "it" I mean the south.  It was an interesting thing to notice going through Arizona and New Mexico to Texas because we kept hearing more and more southern accents.  It's probably a bigger deal to us than it should be, but us accent-less Californians have a finely tuned ear to accents (I declare that as fact).  So we finally made it to Dallas, but we didn't spend a whole lot of time there.
We did stop in the JFK Sixth Floor Museum.  If you weren't aware, JFK was assassinated in Dallas and they made the sixth floor of the old Book Depository, where Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly shot JFK, into a museum.  They run through JFK's presidency leading up to his last campaign stop in Dallas.  All of it is kind of eerie, but so interesting.  I am obsessed with Jackie Kennedy so I knew a little bit of the history, but to see all of the pictures and news footage and the actual street where he was shot made it very real.  They also went through all of the conspiracy theories about Oswald and the holes left in the investigation and Oswald's own murder.  Fascinating stuff.

Then we drove on through eastern Texas, which is surprisingly very green, to Shreveport/Bossier City (pronounced Bo-zyur with an accent) to see the Riverboat Casinos.  We only stopped for a little while, but we ate in the Highland District of Shreveport at the Columbia Cafe.  The food we have had on this trip has been some of the best I've ever had (Sorry, Dad).  Columbia Cafe was no exception.  Emily and I both had the Greek burger (hers was chicken and mine was beef) and split the chocolate marquis.  All of it was just amazing.  Also, they were playing hipster music, which I thoroughly enjoyed.  These were my people.

Crossing the state line

Riverboat Casino!

From there, we drove to Vicksburg, Mississippi.  We attempted to find a place to find to drink a Mint Julep (which was invented in Vicksburg) but basically everywhere was closed and a Mint Julep is like all bourbon.  Not into it.  So we did the boring thing and went to bed (which is so unusual for us, right?).

Again to Mississippi


-KR
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