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 Continue reading

Brookfield to Kennebunk

Tuesday, May 4: Day 11: Brookfield, Connecticut to Kennebunk, Maine
Miles for the day: 286

We added our very last 2 containers of fuel:

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We took a fascinating guided “Freedom Trail Tour” in Boston. Our tour guide was an actor playing the role of Barzillai Lew, who was a free black man who served as a soldier with distinction during the American Revolution. Here he is showing us Paul Revere’s headstone in the Granary Burial Ground:

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We want to save most of the great information and pictures for the full write up we will eventually do, but here are a few teasers from the Freedom Trail. This building was built in 1865. Prior to that, this site held the first public Continue reading

Lake St. Louis to Brookfield

It is easy to fall behind real time posting. Sometimes we do not have good Internet, but usually after a long day of driving, we are just too tired to sort through pictures and do a post. Here are 4 days in one post.

Friday, April 30, 2010: Day 7: Lake St. Louis, Missouri to Dayton, Ohio
Via: I70
Total miles for the entire trip was 2430 at the end of the day.

Adding 2 containers of fuel before leaving the Hocker’s house:

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Visit to the arch in St. Louis, Missouri:

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View from the top of the arch:

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Covered bridge in Greenup, Illinois: Continue reading