ATblog Expedition Travel Log

Salt Lake to LA

For those of you who haven’t driven through Utah, it’s a most spectacular State. Even the drive from Salt Lake City south is well worth staying awake for, especially if you are driving
The drive through the Rockies, along the Colorado River, and then yesterdays drive up to Salt Lake from I 70 were [...]

Colorado

When I think of Colorado my mind fills with images of the Rocky Mountains, year round snow covered peaks, thick evergreen forests and golden Aspens. Driving into Colorado from Kansas is a little unsettling.

It looks just like Kansas, flat plains, fields of corn, the occasional oil well pumping away, and you listen to radio stations [...]

Graham’s Cave Missouri

We seem to take a lot of pictures of our trailers in spectacular locations, so I thought I’d take one of the trailer on the Plains.
Lots of rolling plains, the feeling that the road goes on for every. The excitement of the drive seems to be choosing which gas station to stop at.
Graham’s Cave State [...]

Tires and Shrines:

You have a lot of time to think on a cross-country trip.
What I’ve seen a lot of are shrines and shredded tires.
The shrines are mainly impromptu gathering of flowers, some are more organized and ornate with a cross or a name. All remind me that life is tenuous at best and a moments lost concentration [...]

The Journey West begins.

169561 starting milege.

The journey West begins, Maryland, to West Virginia and almost into Kentucky. A whole day driving through The Appalachians, lovely country. When I studied Geology they said the Appalachians and the Scottish Highlands were once all one mountain chain, long since broken apart by continental drift. Maybe that’s why it has an old [...]

Big Meadow

Nice cool evening and night time air up on the BRP. Drove out of the mountains and on to the Interstate to make up some time and gain some miles.
Big Meadow camping ground had been recommended to me, and it would put me in striking distance Maryland the following day so I had that as [...]

Getting lost

You wouldn’t image that it was possible given all the navigation equipment I now have, but I did manage to go the wrong way. GPS, compass, and map and I still go wrong.
I’ve decided to use the map as the main source of information and back it up with the GPS, rather than the other [...]

Teardrops on the BRP

Camped next to another Teardrop at the Crabtree Meadows campground off the Blue Ridge Parkway. Super nice people, aren’t all Teardrop owners?

A glimse of Lebanon

Drove into Lebanon to find a coffee shop called Vibes that had Internet connection. Put their address in the GPS and followed the directions. Took me back through the strip malls into the old town, and to an old industrial section that looks like they are trying to revive.
It didn’t look open, but there [...]

Fort Smith AR – Lebanon TN

Up early and hit the road by 6.00 am. Sort of magical to backtrack the path I’d taken the night before and now see it in the daylight. There was a mist in the air, I was definitely in the land of big rivers.
Today was the first day since leaving the West Coast that I [...]