Out with the old, in with the new. Rejoice!
I’ve been wanting to put up more pages, but the top bar in the old theme was getting way too overcrowded. This theme puts a little more emphasis on the pages instead of just being about the blogging, but we’ll see how it holds up.
So why are we swaying towards this particular Midwestern trip?
Well, first of all we’re landing in LA and leaving 23 days later from New York. That alone draws a certain line across the states.
Furthermore we know we have to see Las Vegas, surely no trip to the US would be complete without visiting that city? And after that? Well, we’d really love to see Yellowstone, which pushes us up north by quite a bit. And with Mount Rushmore sitting directly east it seemed a natural fit to pretty much stay at that latitude and hit Chicago and Niagara Falls as the east coast crawls closer.
After a couple more hours of brainstorming we’re clearly struggling with the size and scope of the US. On a map it looks easy to plan a little trip around Los Angeles, visiting various points of interests. But no, getting to each point are little journeys in and of themselves, LA is many times bigger than our capital so our sense of distance can get screwed up. Sightseeing in Copenhagen might involve sitting in a bus for twenty minutes to go somewhere far, but that won’t fly over there. The distance from LA to Las Vegas is mind boggling. Not to mention going from Mount Rushmore to Chicago!! I’ll just have to slowly grok these vast distances once we’ve driven for 18 hours and nothing in the horizon has moved!
That’s actually one of the reasons we like the current route taking us through some rather empty places. Yeah Iowa isn’t renowned for its fascinating cultural appeal, but it’ll be an experience all of its own traveling hundreds and hundreds of kilometers with nothing but corn as far as the eye can see.
Behold, the birth of a new category! Welcome to coast-to-coast ‘09.
Stop me if you’re familiar with this particular childhood dream: Traveling from one coast of the United States of America to the other, all from the comforts of an automobile. One helluva’ road trip! Sightseeing all the wonders along the way, taking little spontaneous detours if something catches the eye, stress free and full of experiences. I’d say that’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, who would be able to say no??