A month ago, I left my home in the San Diego area to road trip 2,800+ miles to New York with my husband and dog. I talk about it more in this post, but we moved back to the east coast where A and I are originally from after almost a decade living in beautiful Cali, and are currently looking for our next home in coastal CT. It's pretty wild to check out the complete route on a map - It's a LONG trip! Being the adventurer that I am, I had no intentions of driving for days nonstop to get to our destination. Rather, I wanted to take our time making our way out and make it fun. When we moved out to the west coast we took a more northern route, so this time we opted to take a more southern route to get to see some places we've never visited before. Admittedly, our timing was not ... [Read More]
cross country trip
Thursday Travel Throwback: Across the U.S.A.
Happy Thursday, and welcome to my third Thursday Travel Throwback series post! Today I'm sharing with you the highlights of my adventures driving from the East to West coast. At the end of 2009, my Marine and I drove from our temporary residence in the Pensacola, Florida area where he was training, back to our home state of New Jersey for the holidays. Right after spending Christmas with our families, Adam and I packed up a Uhaul, sold his car, and trailered mine on the back, and we were off to move to San Diego! Weather-wise, it was a little risky driving cross-country in the middle of the winter. We did hit some snow, but we were lucky enough to not get stuck in a big storm or anything. One of my favorite parts of the trip was spending a few days in Missouri. We explored ... [Read More]