Welcome to all new family and friends, foxes and figheads!
I just got home from saying goodbye to a lot of you until October (!!), reminding me that the sheer ambition embedded in this road trip is truly staggering.
Earlier today I met a elderly British couple in San Francisco that were quite keen on hearing my analysis of the various idiosyncrasies attributed to people of a certain region, based purely on my experience living on both coasts. Little did they know I was on the eve of embarking on just the kind of grand trip that would permit me to explore that very question. Such encounters allow me to feel incredibly privileged to even have the opportunity to travel my corner of the world in this fashion, to possess the time and receptiveness to entertain such an outlandish goal.
Let's face it: How much do we actually know about the city we live in? Our state? Our country? Our world?
How can we not actively embrace a chance to investigate?
On an unrelated note, we are officially leaving Monday, July 5, 2010. My tickets at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (our first stop) are booked and there is no turning back. I will have the supreme honor of seeing the OSF professional showings of Pride and Prejudice, Henry IV Part One, The Merchant of Venice, and American Night. The theatre nerd inside can barely contain her excitement.
Apologies for any confusion regarding our route this summer; we reversed it for scheduling and seasonal reasons (camping in Canada in the summer is preferable to camping in Canada in the late fall). For this reason, I have updated the route below.
All told, the new tally for the GART (Great American Road Trip) is 9,900 miles in 99 days. The parallelism is purely coincidental.
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The Bay is beautiful but the rest of the country beckons...
--Lisa
