As many times as I've driven up and down Interstate 95, or back and forth between Texas and Virginia, I've never driven all the way across the country.
Now that's about to change.
In a few weeks I'll be flying out to DC to meet up with my Mom, who's getting ready to serve an eighteen month mission in Salt Lake City. She needs to have her car with her while she's there, so we'll be driving together from DC to Utah. After I drop her off, I figure, what they hey? I'll just rent a car and drive the rest of the way home to San Francisco.
(ATTN: DC friends: party on 8/27. With my mom, but still, a party's a party.)
Here are things I need, if anybody still reads this blog and has advice, suggestions, or an overwhelming urge to bake us some cookies for the trip :)
- a passenger from SLC to SF (this is a "nice to have" not a mandatory). I think I can peer pressure Liz into this, unless we spend all of our money planning to go to Palm Springs in October.
- A cooler full of vegan snacks.
- Tips on where to stay between SLC and SF. So far, someone has suggested that Truckee is cute, especially the Old Town part, and I could wander around Tahoe enjoying the view before driving again.
- I hear there are good vegan restaurants in Sacramento. True/False?
- Hotel/vegan food tips in Cheyenne. For some reason, I'm obsessed with Cheyenne right now.
- Audio book advice. I think I'm going to download The Hunger Games. What else?
- iPhone to stereo connector contraption. (What's good? Still googling about that one.)
- Tips/suggestions on sights we should not miss along this route.
F 8/26
Flight: SF to DC
S 8/27
Spend Day in DC with Family & Friends (maybe see Joanie!)
Going Away party for Mom
S 8/28
Washington DC to Indianapolis, IN (9 hours 58 minutes)
M 8/29
Indianapolis, IN to Nauvoo, IL (5 hours 48 minutes)
Nauvoo, IL to Des Moines IA (3 hours 30 minutes)
T 8/30
Des Moines IA to Cheyenne WY (9 hours 49 minutes)
W 8/31
Cheyenne WY to Salt Lake City UT (6 hours 53 minutes)
Plan to arrive in time to have dinner with Daniel
(Also, I hope I can take off this boot. Is my foot done being broken yet? Geez.)
3 comments:
U.S.50 is way cooler than I-80.
Tahoe is gorgeous- north or south.
Try to be somewhere dark in NV at night, even if you just pull over off the highway and walk out into the desert a bit. You've never seen so many stars!
The salt flats are pretty amazing, too.
You're on your own for food options.
Oh, good tips...U.S. 50 looks like something I can pick up after I drop Mom off and have more dilly-dally time!
I hadn't even thought about the stars, I had been so fixated on breathing deeply far from cities! I'm so excited, my only real concern is that I'll be tempted to never come home :)
they have chik-fil-A in sacramento. I know you're vegan but you can still have delicious waffle fries right? :)
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