Boasts (so far!)

  • Started this journey
  • Visited the Badlands almost completely without other tourists. Deafening Silence
  • Visited Wall Drug
  • Saw Devil’s Tower
  • Saw a rockslide happen right where I was going
  • Fell in love with mountains, Rockies and Sierra Nevadas
  • Rolled uphill
  • Saw tumbleweed tumblin’
  • Drove on a beach
  • Enjoyed the surf of a huge storm
  • Walked on countless beaches
  • Waited for Elk to wander off the highway
  • Walked among the redwoods
  • A pretty boy in the Castro said he loved my outfit
  • Watched surfers off the Monterey coast
  • Hung out in El Capitan meadow
  • Stood in the lowest spot on the planet
  • Saw the stars in the desert
  • Stared down a mountain lion
  • Drove 10,000+ miles
  • Drove all the way across Texas
  • Drove down Route 66 with the top down
  • Occupied all of the time zones in the lower United States
  • Crossed the Golden Gate and Mackinac bridges
  • Experienced Canada, the United States, and Mexico (saw)
  • Saw all of the Great Lakes (though Erie is a stretch, but I saw the Canal and Niagara split it with Ontario)