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To
the right is a map showing the route that I traveled. Starting
in Massachusetts,
I drove down the east coast to the southernmost point of the US--Key
West, Florida,
drove along the border into Mexico,
northward through the deserts of the Southwest, up
over the Rocky Mountains,
explored the Rain Forest of the
northwest, continued up through the unbelievable beauty of British
Columbia and the Canadian Yukon,
over the 460 miles of the dirt & gravel road called the "Dalton
Highway", to the town of Deadhorse,
Prudhoe Bay on the Artic Ocean
in Alaska.
Then
drove south to Prince Rupert, BC, and
sailed on the "Queen of the North"
ferry down through the "Inside
Passage" to Vancouver
Island and continued the journey
homeward across the northern & central states until I reached
home in Massachusetts.For me,
this journey was much more than a road trip across the US--it was an
unforgettable smorgasbord of experiences, emotions, and memories!To
learn more about what it's like to drive alone across the US &
Canada (with very limited
funds), and to see the photos I took along the way:
I
discovered that America is like a great cornucopia------each state a
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(Left) I
just had to post this photo of Mica howling at the neighbors cat who
likes to come over and sit on my porch to tease her!
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We leave on
Aug. 16. Change flights in Iceland. Then fly to Barcelona,
Spain where we will be picked up by our next thoughtful and kind
"couch surfer hosts". 2 nights there, then 3 night in a hostel,
then bus to Pomplona where we have signed up for a week course
in Spanish. Meanwhile we will be hosted by 2 more couch surfing
hosts. After the Spanish course, we will be starting the Camino
de Santiago in St. Jean Pied de Port in France. We plan on
walking to Ponferrada where we began the Camino in January 2009.
It will be about a 400 mile walk.This
is going to be a fantastic journey!!!I
am not really a religious person, but I feel deep gratitude in my
heart for all of the blessings that have come into my life.