The Basics

So what is all this? A 3 week road trip west, just the two of us, in the minivan.

Justine has never been to a state that doesn’t border Illinois, and Dave would love to run away to the mountains. We just graduated college, and are having one last hurrah before we have to become real people and have real jobs (aka become adults).

Here's the plan:



Dave is in charge of navigation and all national park (aka woodsman) excursions, and Justine is in charge of city sites, random things to see along the way, and music.

We’re going to try to post stuff as often as we can since Dave is bringing his computer, but this may fail based on internet and energy. If nothing else, we’ll keep track of what we did, what we liked, etc. and post it with pictures when we get back.
If we succeed, odds are long rambling messages that sound like inner monologues will be from Justine, and concise informational entries will be from Dave. Hopefully we’ll do them together, but it may be a necessity for each of us to release a bit by writing at some points :)
Also, we will attempt mobile blogs thanks to the ol android phone, but this may or may not succeed, seeing as Justine is technologically challenged.

So...what have we been doing thus far? Planning...planning...planning...

Dave has made a step by step Google Map, which is pretty fantastic, and a Google Calendar to go with it. What would we do without the wonders of technology, or Gmail for that matter?



Justine has made a binder, complete with decorated cover and tabs inside, that has all the sites to see and reservations and such.



It’s going to be interesting to see how we figure out where we’re going when. We have a guidebook of the national parks, have info about the other areas from books, the binder full of randoms, and the advice of other people. We’re not planning things out minute to minute, cause what’s the fun in that?! So the idea is to shove all this travel info in one place, reference the binder and maps when we are bored (haha), and rely on the lovely friends we have in some of these locations for guidance.