Month: February 2019
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Cross-Country, Part 7 (A Week in Phoenix)
We drove for five long days and finally arrived in Arizona. However, the adventure did not end there. Phoenix had always been the ultimate goal. Our decision to go on a road trip sprang from that choice. My wife and younger son wanted no part of the drive and flew to Phoenix instead. There they…
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Cross-Country, Part 6 (The Western Half)
The first half of the drive seemed almost routine as it ran through terrain familiar to a lifelong resident of the eastern part of the United States. However we still had a couple of days to go and we began moving into unfamiliar territory. Here I captured a wide swath of previously unvisited counties straight through the…
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Cross-Country, Part 5 (The Eastern Half)
We actually did a lot more than collect new counties and visit zoos. After all, we sat in a car for five days! I needed to stop every couple of hours to stretch my legs. Sometimes we timed our layovers to see something interesting and sometimes things had a way of finding us. The open…
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Cross-Country, Part 4 (Zoos & Brews)
I came for the county counting. Although, let’s recall I had to bribe my older son before this road trip could even begin. How many zoos could we see during six days of driving from coast to coast, plus a week in Phoenix? A lot. We visited six, well seven actually, although we only got…