The Passage Across America Road Trip Series

Since returning from our circumnavigation, we’ve started several threads we’ve never finished. Christi’s new year resolution for 2012 is to finish up all the loose threads on the blog. Last month, we finished up a series on our recent trip to San Francisco in Kosmos. The next thread she is tackling is our Passage Across America on One Load of Fuel.

To give a quick refresher course: upon returning home from our circumnavigation in May 2009, we bought a diesel Jetta. Eric soon realized that we could carry enough fuel in the car to make it all the way across the country (San Diego to Maine, about 3,000 nautical miles — oddly enough, the same range as Kosmos!) without ever stopping at a gas station. So to celebrate the one year anniversary of the circumnavigation, in Spring 2010 we drove across the USA and back (with a small jaunt into Canada).

We put up several posts on the trip. Since we didn’t have much downtime to write, the posts are mostly pictures with little commentary. We abruptly quit posting about 3/4 of the way through the journey because we lost our SD card of photos. In April 2011, as we were packing for a trip to France, we found the missing SD card in a pocket of a suitcase. So, with pictures in hand, we are now finally going to finish the thread. Just in case anyone wants to peruse the existing Passage Across America posts, here they are:

Passage Across America Begins

San Diego to Gila Bend

Gila Bend to Globe

Globe to Albuquerque

Albuquerque to Elk City

Elk City to Joplin

Remembering Joplin, Missouri (this one is out of chronological order as it was posted a year later, but it is in the right geographical order)

Joplin to St. Louis

Lake St. Louis to Brookfield

Brookfield to Kennebunk

Kennebunk to Schenectady

Schenectady to Chicago

Chicago to Plain

Plain to Keystone

Keystone to Yellowstone

We’ll be picking up the thread in a few days with a post about Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone was AMAZING.

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