Road Trip Pictures

A "best of" collection of road trip pictures can be found here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/aspersions/XUSA07BestOf

Slideshow here:

Maps! Maps! Maps!

A couple more maps:

This is a map color-coded by day of the trip:



This is a map color-coded by which minivan ("Cannonball") we were driving:

Obligatory video montage

The first of many visualizations

Presenting our route, courtesy of Ilteris:

(Click on map for more detail)

DATELINE: sfo                                                    

Author: Karl

6981 miles.

25 states.

14 days.

3 minivans.

1 deer.

Mission complete.

DATELINE: willits, ca                                                    

Author: Andy

I totally just got drunk-dialed by jenny chowdhury! She's in san francisco, a mere 150 miles away.

We just ate dinner at this random diner in town. Although we arrived 15 minutes after closing, the waitress let us order anyway. That's the 2nd time we've lucked out like that in 2 days. We were on the cusp of having to eat at Denny's again.

I drove about 200 miles today, taking over somewhere near Eureka. The drive along the california coast was beautiful. The views were right out of a postcard. We've been taking US 101 the whole way. We drove past a lot of ridiculously large redwood trees. At some points while I was driving, the road would weave underneath a thick canopy of giant trees. The sand dunes are still my scenic highlight of the day, but the subsequent drive today has been a very pleasant surprise.

Karl drove for 5 hours today and now ilteris has taken over for the last leg. It's funny how driving 300 miles seems like such a reasonable task at this point. We're going to arrive in SF in style, right over the Golden Gate Bridge.

DATELINE: fort dick, ca                                                    

Author: Ilteris

Finally! We are in california. We entered 25th state of our trip couple of minutes ago. I can see pacific ocean on my right and we are passing through small towns on the coast. Beautiful. 360 miles more and our trip is finally going to end in san francisco. I am pretty sure we are all looking forward to it!