midlife drive

Summer/Fall 2009

Rome, Italy
Naples, Italy
Cairo, Egypt
Ephesus, Turkey
Athens, Greece
Mykonos, Greece
Santorini, Greece
Corfu, Greece
Rhodes, Greece
Coronado, CA
Las Vegas, NV
Zion National Park, Utah
Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
Vail, CO
Breckenridge, CO
Buffalo, WY
Cody, WY
Jackson Hole, WY
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
London England
Pisa, Italy
Florence, Italy
Cortona, Italy
Rome, Italy
Milan, Italy
Frankfurt, Germany
San Diego, CA
Pismo Beach, CA

Midlife Drive begins: February 23, 2010

Here are some of the places I stopped along the way, as I drove 15,000 miles, all the way around the USA, from San Diego to Florida, to Maine, to Nashville, to Dallas, to Wyoming, to Seattle and back to San Diego.

San Diego, CA
Yuma, AZ
Phoenix, AZ
Tucson, AZ
White Sands National Monument, NM
Cloudcroft, NM
Carlsbad Caverns National Park, NM
San Antonio, TX
Austin, TX
Rockwall, TX
Dallas, TX
Houston, TX
Lake Charles, LA
New Orleans, LA
Gulfport, MS
Biloxi, MS
Dauphin Island, AL
Battle Ship Alabama Memorial
Mt. Pleasant, FL
New Port Richie, FL
St. Petersburg, FL
Orlando, FL
Sarasota, FL
Ft. Myers, FL
Everglades National Park, FL
Shark Alley, FL
Key West, FL
Marathon, FL
Key Largo, FL
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Cape Canaveral, FL
Kennedy Space Center, FL
St. Augustine, FL
Jacksonville, FL
Savannah, GA
Charleston, SC
Myrtle Beach, SC
Pawley’s Island SC
Wilmington, NC
New Bern, NC
Battleship North Carolina Memorial
Elizabeth City, NC
Kill Devil Hills, NC
Kitty Hawk, NC
Wright Brothers National Memorial, NC
Outer Banks, NC
Rodanthe, NC
Cape Hatteras, NC
Ocracoke Island, NC
Norfolk, VA
Chicago, IL (sorry, I cheated and flew there)
Virginia Beach, VA
Chesapeake Bay Bridge & Tunnel, VA
Chincoteague Island, National Wildlife Refuge, VA
NASA Wallops Flight Facility, VA
Ocean City, MD
Delaware Sea Shore, DE
Annapolis, MD
Washington, DC
Philadelphia, PA
New Jersey
New York
Mystic Seaport, CT
Westerly, RI
Point Judith Lighthouse, RI
Newport, RI
Providence, RI
Boston, MA
Hampton Beach, NH
Portsmouth, ME
Kennebunkport, ME
Cape Porpoise, ME
Concord, MA
Walden Pond, MA
Concord, NH
Southern Vermont
Niagara Falls, NY and Canada
Erie, PA
Akron, Ohio
Amish Country, OH
Mammoth Cave National Park
Nashville, TN
Memphis, TN
Little Rock, AR
McKinney, TX
Oklahoma City, OK
Las Vegas, NM
Colorado Springs, CO
Denver, CO
Ft. Collins, CO
Cheyenne, WY
Glendo Reservoir, WY
Buffalo, WY
Ten Sleep, WY
Backroads to Hyattville, WY
Medicine Lodge Archeological Site
Mountain trail to Shell, WY
Medicine Wheel National Historic Site
Cody, WY
Beartooth Hightway to Cooke City, Montana
Silver Gate Entrance into Yellowstone Park
Jackson Hole, WY
Mammoth Gate out of Yellowstone to Montana
Bozeman, MT
Butte, MT
Highway 1 to Anaconda, MT
Philipsburg, MT
Missoula, MT
Poison, MT Flathead Lake
Kalispell, MT
Glacier National Park
Whitefish, MT
Libby, MT
Bonners Ferry, ID
Sandpoint, ID
Coeur d’Alene, ID
Spokane, WA
Snoqualmie, WA
Seattle, WA
Washington Coastline
Portland, OR
Rogue River, OR
Mt. Shasta, CA
Rio Vista, CA
Pismo Beach, CA
San Diego, CA

Aug to Nov destinations:

Dallas, TX
San Francisco, CA
Yosemite National Park, CA
Ogden, UT
Jackson Hole, WY
Buffalo, WY
Devil’s Tower, WY
Black Hills, SD
Des Moines, Iowa
Indianapolis, Indiana
St Louis, MO
Springfield, MO
Tulsa, OK

Stats:

155 days on the road
15,503 Miles (I had originally estimated the trip at 15,000!)
35 States
1 New diesel engine
1 Flat tire
3,944 trip photos on my iPhone!