Hanging for the weekend

Franklin, Tennessee  • 
I'm spending the weekend with the Fosters, my really close friends - then I'll finish the trip on Monday.

Driving along

Illinois  • 

Fudge

38.941207, -91.944213  • 
I have a weakness for tourist traps, and fudge.

Respite

Overland Park  • 
Took a day to get caught up on work and take pictures of Nut...

A little of a lot

Overland Park  • 
I drove through bits of Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas & Missouri. No pictures, because it was dark. Omaha was quite impressive at night, though!

South Dakota & The Badlands

Chamberlain, South Dakota  • 

Still going

Rapid City, SD  • 
Through the swamps, pine forests, deserts, eastern coastline & mountains - this car and my fuzzy co-pilot carry on. Ready for the adventure of the day!

Beautiful Sunset

Gillette  • 

Get gas whenever you can

Wyoming  • 

Oh, deer

Billings, Montana  • 
I checked them out while they tried to ignore Nut.

So windy!

Montana  • 
Nut had to pee, and I wanted a picture of the two different mountain ranges. Almost couldn't open the door against the wind!

Stopped for the night

Butte  • 
70 in Jacksonville, 7 here. 🥶 The little white dot at the top of mountain is Our Lady of the Rockies. https://mtstandard.com/news/local/watching-over-butte-a-look-at-our-lady-of-the-rockies-through-the-years/collection_385dd7ef-f0c3-59fa-969b-d1a5adb7615d.html

Four Lakes, WA

Four Lakes - gas stop  • 

George, Washington 😂

George  • 

Snow!

47.308646, -121.313149  • 

Time to go

Enumclaw  • 
We had an amazing and very productive week - getting Christy set up here. Now it's time for me to head home while the weather still allows it.

We're here!!!

Enumclaw  • 
We are safely in Seattle! Well, the Seattle area, anyway. The trailer has been returned to U-Haul & Kacey is going to stay here at least through Thanksgiving day. Once she & Nut head back to Florida, she'll start updating the map again.

Hotel stop

Port Orford  • 
Stopping for the night - Nut is not interested in getting on the road again...

Gas stop. .

Redding  • 
Gas stop

Gas stop. .

Willows  • 
Gsetting tired of the desert.

Gas stop. .

Woodland  • 
Gas stop

Stopping for the night.

Kettleman City  • 
We were so tired, we don't remember what happened.

Stopping for the night

Kettleman City  • 
We were so tired, we don't remember what happened.

Gas Stop .

Mojave  • 
Gas stop in a desert town.

Gas stop.

Newberry Springs  • 
Gas stop

The desert

Sedona  • 

Pheonix

Phoenix  • 
We didn't take any pictures of Pheonix. Here's a cactus

Littlest Museum- closed due to Covid-19

Superior  • 

Gas stop .

Deming  • 
Gas stop

Buc-ees

Loxley  • 

The trip of a lifetime

Jacksonville  • 
Taking off for our trip all the way scross the country.

What a night!

Eureka  • 
Whew! Driving through the mountains in freezing weather at night pulling a trailer for 136 miles was not high on Kacey's list of things to do. But we did it!!! Yay all-wheel drive!

Rainy weather

Astoria  • 
Today was our first day of rain during the entire trip - so we decided that this would be a good place to land for the night before heading back across the mountains.

Oregon Coast

Yachats  • 
Cute little town with amazing views of the ocean!

SAY CHEESE

Tillamook  • 
After spending days in the desert, we decided to stop for ice cream while we are in the cold rain. Of course - it's the Tillamook Creamery, so who can resist? https://www.tillamook.com/

Pacific Ocean

Crescent City  • 

Sleepy pup

Kingman  • 
Not sure what tired him out more - hiking at the Grand Canyon, or freaking out as we drove through the mountains!

😬 Switchbacks with a trailer

35.026535, -111.738233  • 
KC drove this like she had done it a thousand times

Desert flowers

Needles  • 
First stop in California We picked flowers that will outlast any season (Pictures of said flowers coming soon)

Grocery stop

Stockton  • 
Easier to transport than wine If you want to know, just ask!

Prairie Dogs!

Patterson  • 
We got to see an entire colony of prairie dogs with one fierce lookout!

California

Needles  • 

Scott

Kingman  • 

Grand Canyon

Grand Canyon  • 
bigger than you think it is

Hotel room view

Sedona  • 

Pima cotton from Pima

Pima  • 
This cotton is not as easy to pick as we make it look. We climbed over a BIG ditch to do it. Never second guess the determination of Curls.

Ghost town

Shakespeare  • 
A real live ghost town

Continental Divide

Rio Grande and the Roadrunner

Las Cruces  • 
Finally out of Texas!!!

Mexico

El Paso  • 

Grey bar hotel (police station)

Fort Hancock  • 

Tee pees

Van Horn  • 

Best stuff ever

Balmorhea  • 
Toothpicks included in each bag

Mesas

Balmorhea  • 

Driving to nowhere

Balmorhea  • 

One nights stay

Fort Stockton  • 

Gas stop

Junction  • 
Yep

The Alamo

San Antonio  • 
Any comments, friends?

First sign of the Pacific Northwest

Luling  • 

Peto's

Roanoke  • 
Stopped for gas and Boudin "voted the best year after year" We give the Boudin an 8 of 10 Nut gave it 2 wags for the potty

Off we go

Jacksonville  • 
Driving from Jacksonville Florida to Seattle Washington via California

Houston

Buc-ee's Boulevard  • 

Good dog

Baytown  • 

New Orleans

Kenner  • 
Stopped in new Orleans to visit the family for 4 days

Day 5 Texas

Baytown  • 
Heading West We got some good rest at the Wyndham Baytown Stopped at the best truck stop in the nation for Beaver Nuggets