Everywhere

At a convenience store somewhere in the south, an old woman (about my age) stopped to ask the time, the time zone, and what state we were in. I wasn't much help because I wasn't sure myself . I think we were both mostly in the state of confusion from too much travel!

This summer (May, June, July, and August) we have logged 12,000 miles on the truck and passed through as least some part of twenty-two states - North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Wyoming, South Dakota, Colorado, New Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.

We have crossed the continental divide. We have crossed time zones. We have crossed rivers, We have crossed the continent and we have crossed our eyes.

Here are some highlights from a few of the states we visited:

 

The Yellowstone River

Montana

More Montana

Pacific Ocean (through a rain forest)

Washington

Salmon River

Idaho

Pendleton Woolen Mills

Oregon

Hunting Ancestors 

South Dakota 

Duck Dynasty

Louisiana

Gulf of Mexico

Florida

Atlantic Ocean

Florida

Lunch with Paula Deen in Savannah

Georgia

 

Ohio River between

Kentucky and Illinois 

St. Louis, Bar-B-Q of course

Missouri

and
The Geographic Center of North America

Rugby,  North Dakota

Now I can sing with Johnny Cash,

I've been everywhere, man
Crossed the deserts bare, man
I've breathed the mountain air, man
Travel I've had my share, man
I've been
E V E R Y W H E R E

but there's
No Place Like Home!