Alex and Kim’s Adventures

Written by Kim Well…..last night I said we were going to take a drive and rest day but we decided to change that based on input from a friend (thanks Bob!) encouraging us to check out Badlands. We drove west about 4 hours from Sioux Falls. The drive was mostly prairie until we crossed the […]

Written by Kim Our drive today was a little over four hours and took us to another new state for both of us – South Dakota. The drive was mostly through prairies again with more hay bales but some windmills too. We’re starting to see a little more cattle as we get further south where […]

Written by Kim Our trip from Duluth to Fargo was a little over 5 hours. North Dakota is another new state for both of us. The drive was very rural with some small towns here and there. We know we’re now in the west because we crossed the Mississippi River. We passed lots of farms […]

Written by Kim The drive today took us west from the Upper Peninsula on part of Highway 2 into Wisconsin on our way to Duluth. We drove about 5 hours through areas of very spotty cell service which meant we also didn’t have Sirius radio. We learned that we have to restrict our fluid intake […]

Written by Kim As we travel we look a few days out to plan our next stop. We knew we would be in Indiana on Friday and Alex realized that Notre Dame had a home game and it was against a smaller school, NIU – Northern Illinois, so there were tickets available at a reasonable […]

Written by Kim It’s a little cooler this morning as we leave Toledo heading to Indiana. Rain came in overnight so we needed to get some pants out to wear. The weather is a bit iffy so we didn’t rush to get started today. We again took no toll roads for a $12 savings in […]

Written by Kim When we left NJ it felt more like the start of our trip but it’s already day 5 since we left home. We traveled 2 1/2 hours through Nj to Lancaster City, PA. We didn’t do the typical Amish tour we went into the city. Our first stop was the central market […]

Written by Kim The trip from Richmond to NJ was very familiar to us as we do it often. We traveled about 350 miles through 4 more states – DC, MD, DE and NJ – all of which we’ve been to many times. I did good with my signs but we started a new approach […]

Written by Kim We picked up our rental car on Thursday afternoon to begin packing for our adventure. Just like the Seinfeld episode, they didn’t have the car we ordered, a small SUV like Rav 4, so we got a larger Ford Explorer. It’s nice because it’s more roomy but will cost more in gas. […]

Written by Kim On Friday we will start our USA road trip. Our goal is for both of us to complete seeing all 50 states before returning home. Since it will be a long trip that we expect will take about 6 weeks we are setting a limit of 4-5 hours of driving per day. […]