5 Jul 2009

Roadtrip plans have been in the works for a while. The sense of adventure and an open road just calls to me — it’s a matter of being raised on spontaneous road-trips from a very early age. And a certain wanderlust developed from my spring break Euro-hopping at the beginning of the year. Some ideas. Michigan, camping weekend. Ride up to the dunes — Sleeping Bear Lake (or Warren, which is much closer). Stop for cherry picking and tanning, possibly work in some kayaking. Ann Arbor-Buffalo/Toronto-Montreal-Quebec. Week-long. I’ve had a hankering to go back this way since my collegiate tour of Toronto and McGill, though I knew I wouldn’t be able to bear the cold, Ontario and Quebec in the summertime are far too gorgeous to miss. Plus I have fun folks I can run into on the way there, and an excuse to relive my love for all things uber-French. The North-west: BC, Vancouver-Seattle-Portland. Passing through The Badlands, Yellowstone, down through the Southwest if I’m daring enough. 2+ weeks. This would be the ultimate trip, a final piecing in of the roadtrip map my family started, by making it out to the ONE CORNER of the US we haven’t yet hit. Though the drive would hit old routes, and the nations beautiful parks, but I’m sure a fresh perspecitve and camp-outs and hostels instead of motel rooms will make this very exciting indeed. Biking adventure. Undertermined. This is a scalable project that has already commenced, it’s gone from me biking downtown regularly to setting my sights on crossing state borders (Chicago-Gary-Dunes, Chicago-Home-Milwaukee) to potentially … ultimately, the Great Lakes Circle Tour. If I can accomplish this at some point in my life, I will be a happy camper indeed. The ultimate problem with all of these is not my willingness to do it, or even the resources … it’s finding people to share the experience with. We’ll see how that goes. Image via www.androidblues.com

Roadtrip plans have been in the works for a while. The sense of adventure and an open road just calls to me — it’s a matter of being raised on spontaneous road-trips from a very early age. And a certain wanderlust developed from my spring break Euro-hopping at the beginning of the year.

Some ideas.

  • Michigan, camping weekend. Ride up to the dunes — Sleeping Bear Lake (or Warren, which is much closer). Stop for cherry picking and tanning, possibly work in some kayaking.
  • Ann Arbor-Buffalo/Toronto-Montreal-Quebec. Week-long. I’ve had a hankering to go back this way since my collegiate tour of Toronto and McGill, though I knew I wouldn’t be able to bear the cold, Ontario and Quebec in the summertime are far too gorgeous to miss. Plus I have fun folks I can run into on the way there, and an excuse to relive my love for all things uber-French.
  • The North-west: BC, Vancouver-Seattle-Portland. Passing through The Badlands, Yellowstone, down through the Southwest if I’m daring enough. 2+ weeks. This would be the ultimate trip, a final piecing in of the roadtrip map my family started, by making it out to the ONE CORNER of the US we haven’t yet hit. Though the drive would hit old routes, and the nations beautiful parks, but I’m sure a fresh perspecitve and camp-outs and hostels instead of motel rooms will make this very exciting indeed.
  • Biking adventure. Undertermined. This is a scalable project that has already commenced, it’s gone from me biking downtown regularly to setting my sights on crossing state borders (Chicago-Gary-Dunes, Chicago-Home-Milwaukee) to potentially … ultimately, the Great Lakes Circle Tour. If I can accomplish this at some point in my life, I will be a happy camper indeed.

The ultimate problem with all of these is not my willingness to do it, or even the resources … it’s finding people to share the experience with. We’ll see how that goes.

Image via www.androidblues.com