Around the world in 108 days
Below is an approximate route map of our journey, with the places we stayed each night marked with numbers. 1 and 10 don't count since they are the origin and destination, so we spent nine days and eight nights on our road trip.
-David
We finally made it to Bruce Beach, Canada. It was a pretty interesting journey.
I was kind of expecting to eat in those Mom & Pop diners in small towns like you see in the movies, but since we followed the major interstate highways where the chargers are everything is commercialized, Starbucks, MacDonalds, etc. We tried to avoid those places (although they are good for clean restrooms). We did eat at one small Chinese restaurant that claimed to have the best egg rolls in Wyoming. We went to a Mexican place in Montana, which wasn't a great idea. My burrito was pretty bad, but Yanmei liked her veggie fajitas. One of the reasons we like to stay at AirBnbs is so we can use the kitchen to cook for ourselves, unlike staying in a hotel.
Now we have to plan our trip back to California. We won't take the same route back. My initial thought is keep going East to New York, then down through Atlanta, New Orleans, then across through Dallas, Albuquerque and Las Vegas.
-David
On July 16th we continued through Minnesota into Wisconsin and stayed in Madison for the night. We didn't do any sightseeing. We did encounter something we hadn't seen since we passed Sacramento: traffic.
July 17th we drove through Chicago (awful traffic and it was Sunday) to finish up in Ann Arbor, MI. We actually passed through five states, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan. Ohio was a mistake, I told Yanmei wrong directions and we ended up detouring through the northwest corner of Ohio by mistake, instead of going directly from Indiana to Michigan.
We're looking forward to finishing the trip. It is a lot more tiring traveling like this instead of staying in each place for 3-4 days then taking a train or plane to the next city.
-David
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