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A little over a year ago, I flew in to meet up with my good friends, James and Lauren, for an amazing adventure in the Sequioa National Forest:
James tells the story better than I can here at homeonthehighway.com. After that trip, I caught the travel bug pretty bad. Then I found this site, followed along with some of the trips, and my cubicle really started closing in.
So I made some plans, saved some money, and set out on a trip of my own – cross-country from the Florida Keys to Seattle to explore these United States of America. I’m traveling in my 2003 Tacoma. I’ve had this truck for about 3 years now and it was primarily used to get me and my kayak to some of my favorite fishing spots in Florida. I’ve added a few things to make overlanding as comfortable as possible but this is where being in the service comes in handy. I learned how to get pretty comfortable in the back of a truck for weeks at a time.
I left Florida about 10 days ago and had two days to be in New Orleans to pick up Tania at the airport so on the way I camped in the Apalachicola National Forest in northern Florida:
Then it was off to explore New Orleans with my best friend. What an awesome city! I’m glad we got a chance to experience it when we did…7 years to the date of Katrina…with another storm on the way. We even got a first hand account of Katrina from a local when I forgot to turn my fridge off. Derrrrr...
We did all the typical tourist stuff and even ended the trip with a windows-up tour of the 9th ward.
Tania headed home and I headed north. I was running from Isaac but made a last minute decision to check something off my bucket list. I turned and headed back to the coast to look Isaac in the eye. Staring down a hurricane isn’t on my bucket list but landing a Louisiana redfish is:
Check it off the list.
Then I headed north for real this time to Chicot State Park. I got a chance to put some miles on my bike and to take a few poser pics of my setup.
The storm was still coming (slow storm apparently) so I went further west to east Texas – Sabine National Forest. The trip has been great so far but It’s not all sugar and sunshine. I have bug bites on top of bug bites, a crafty raccoon taught me a valuable lesson about securing my food, and….ANTS! They secured a perimeter around my RTT!
I avoided the storm and now I’m back in Louisiana because on my way through, I was scanning the dial and heard three words that caught my ear: Louisiana Mud Fest!
(Here’s my Keys write-up so I can officially say this trip is from the Keys to Seattle
)
James tells the story better than I can here at homeonthehighway.com. After that trip, I caught the travel bug pretty bad. Then I found this site, followed along with some of the trips, and my cubicle really started closing in.
So I made some plans, saved some money, and set out on a trip of my own – cross-country from the Florida Keys to Seattle to explore these United States of America. I’m traveling in my 2003 Tacoma. I’ve had this truck for about 3 years now and it was primarily used to get me and my kayak to some of my favorite fishing spots in Florida. I’ve added a few things to make overlanding as comfortable as possible but this is where being in the service comes in handy. I learned how to get pretty comfortable in the back of a truck for weeks at a time.
I left Florida about 10 days ago and had two days to be in New Orleans to pick up Tania at the airport so on the way I camped in the Apalachicola National Forest in northern Florida:
Then it was off to explore New Orleans with my best friend. What an awesome city! I’m glad we got a chance to experience it when we did…7 years to the date of Katrina…with another storm on the way. We even got a first hand account of Katrina from a local when I forgot to turn my fridge off. Derrrrr...
We did all the typical tourist stuff and even ended the trip with a windows-up tour of the 9th ward.
Tania headed home and I headed north. I was running from Isaac but made a last minute decision to check something off my bucket list. I turned and headed back to the coast to look Isaac in the eye. Staring down a hurricane isn’t on my bucket list but landing a Louisiana redfish is:
Check it off the list.
Then I headed north for real this time to Chicot State Park. I got a chance to put some miles on my bike and to take a few poser pics of my setup.
The storm was still coming (slow storm apparently) so I went further west to east Texas – Sabine National Forest. The trip has been great so far but It’s not all sugar and sunshine. I have bug bites on top of bug bites, a crafty raccoon taught me a valuable lesson about securing my food, and….ANTS! They secured a perimeter around my RTT!
I avoided the storm and now I’m back in Louisiana because on my way through, I was scanning the dial and heard three words that caught my ear: Louisiana Mud Fest!
(Here’s my Keys write-up so I can officially say this trip is from the Keys to Seattle
)
