Camping Across America

So much has been going on and I've had close to zero time to do anything, including blog.  Skipping right to the end, I'm currently in San Diego, but the story of how we ended up here is worth the read.

After we left Hawaii in September, Courtney and I went home to New Jersey to prepare for our next adventure, a cross-country camping trip!  We knew we wanted to see more of the US and since we were headed out to San Diego, we figured why not (and it saved me $1700 from having to ship my car).  As fall was starting to ascend it seemed like the ideal weather to see a good chunk of the National Parks, so we used Roadtrippers.com to plan out all of our stops.  It was perfect for finding ideas of where to go and seeing other peoples ratings on different attractions.  Here is what our final plan looked like:

As you may or may not be able to see, it starts from NJ, crosses through the northern states, goes into Canada for a bit, then zigzags down the whole west coast.  The national parks that were on our list to hit up were, in order,

Cuyahoga Valley N.P. - Ohio

Badlands N.P. - South Dakota

Glacier N.P. - Montana

Banff N.P. - Alberta, Canada

Olympic N.P. - Washington

Crater Lake N.P. - Oregon

Redwoods N.P. - California

Yosemite N.P. - California

and many other obligatory stops in between like Mount Rushmore, Vancouver, Seattle, Cannon Beach, Lake Tahoe, and Big Sur.  One thing you should really know about me and Courtney is that we change our minds and plans very quickly (short attention spans) so of course we unfortunately didn't get to go everywhere we wanted to, but we did see a great chunk of our homeland that we never would've gotten to see any other way.

After seeing a documentary, Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead, Courtney thought it would be a good idea to juice across America, to help us cleanse from Hawaii, and start us off on a healthy foot.  I'll be writing another post soon on packing for a trip like this and what specific stuff we bought to maximize efficiency.

The whole trip altogether took us about 2 and a half to 3 weeks, so I won't try and fit it all in one blog post.  Instead what I'm gonna do this week is recreate the trip and give you the highlights with plenty of photos for your visual pleasure.  I would've done it along the way but the National Parks Service doesn't have "put wifi in all the trees" on the top of their to-do list.  I'll forgive them.

So stay tuned this week to hear and see what our trip was like!

PS-Happy Halloween!