Greetings family, friends, and folksy fighters!
As many of you know, my godmother, Cindy; her 10-year-old son, Matthew; and myself, Lisa, are embarking on what we have lovingly termed the Great American Road Trip (GART for short) this summer of 2010.
Our mission: To hit up as many historic landmarks, national parks, monuments, campgrounds, and such, interspersed with visiting family and friends on our three-and-a-half-month trip around the States and part of Canada as humanly possible without strangling one another in the back of our Odyssey. :)
Our current route from the Bay Area, CA: Bakersfield, CA; Phoenix, AZ; Albuquerque, NM; Amarillo, TX; Oklahoma City, OK; Little Rock, AR; Memphis, TN; Birmingham, AL; Atlanta, GA; Nashville, TN; Louisville, KY; Indianapolis, IN; Chicago, IL; Madison, WI; Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN; Duluth, MN; Sioux Falls, SD; Helena, MT; Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Vancouver, BC, Canada; Victoria, BC, Canada; Seattle, WA; Portland, OR; Ashland, OR; Redding, CA, back to the Bay Area by October.
Our stops along the way: the Grand Canyon, Mammoth Cave National Park, a rendezvous with Former President Jimmy Carter, the Badlands, Mt. Rushmore, the Black Hills, Yellowstone, Banff National Park, Jasper National Park, Mt. Saint Helens, Crater Lake National Park, Mt. Shasta, and the Ashland Shakespeare Festival. We will also be visiting family in Georgia, Minnesota, and British Columbia, as well as friends in Arizona, Oklahoma, and Illinois.
Parts of our trip are yet to be hammered down, but this is our working map at the moment.
The trip promises to be filled to the brim with smelly car rides, angsty episodes, educational hikes, desert storms, jammin' music, gripping theater, fried frog legs, and family bonding.
Please keep checking back on our progress! We will be updating this blog, as requested, so our adoring fans (you, silly!) can keep tabs on us and live vicariously through our awesomeness.
--Lisa
