Great American Road Trip

We struggled with our next travel plans. South Asia was coming to a close and our minds were swirling with visions of Indo beaches, Angor Wat day trips and a jaunt along the great wall. We jumped around the earth and decided that the ruins of Machu Picchu were more our style and a trek in the Andes was what we needed (more trekking - wtf?).

I sat there reading Kerouac's On the Road. We were at 12,000ft and climbing along the Himalayas. Dean Moriarty and Sal Paradise were roaring out of Denver and sliding down below the Mason-Dixon line to New Orleans. I turned to Mylinh and said, "no more foreign countries, let's go see America." More specifically, let's go down to New Orleans.

The idea grew in our minds like a virus. Indonesia, Cambodia, China, Peru, Chile all fell out of style like flare jeans. The road trip plans grew and grew.

Look for us traveling from Cali all the way to Georgia and back, all while hitting up such hot spots as LA, San Diego, Mojave, Vegas, Los Alamos (birthplace of the Atom Bomb), Roswell, Austin, Benton, AR (original Walmart), Memphis, Nashville, Kentucky (for bourbon distilleries), Atlanta, New Orleans and numerous other random national and state parks.

The itinerary will undoubtedly change, but our blueprint is the starting point for another adventure and another opportunity to avoid the real world.

If anybody has a place for us to stay along this route we would love a free place to rest our head. Let us know and we promise to be polite and bring lots of beer.