image by aernst

Two days from now, we’ll be hitting the road for Montreat, NC, the first stop on our 2.5 week road trip adventure.  Major stops along the way include, Harrisonburg, VA; Iowa City, IA; Minneapolis-St. Paul; Fairdale, ND; Aspen, CO; Overland Park, KA.  

It should be fun times all around.  We’re picking up a dear friend in VA, hanging out with college and seminary friends in Iowa, doing the family thing in ND, seeing my brother at the Aspen Music

 Festival, and wedding-it-up in KA.  

Of course, that won’t be all our stops.  Courtesy of the hilarious website Roadside America,

 we’ll try to take in fascinating cultural phenomenons such as the

  Giant Buffalo Bill Statue, or the World’s Largest Rocking Chair in Indiana, or the Kansas Barbed Wire Museum.  

If I find the time, I’ll also plan a few stops along the way at restaurants from RoadFood.com, a site that chronicles good local food along America’s highways–I’m always up for some good BBQ.  

Our specific route is undetermined, but here’s a google map image to get you thinking in the right direction.  According to google, we’re right at 5,000 miles.  Considering flying the six segments would have cost thousands, we’ll just have to suck up the $4+ gas prices.  Even so, it’s much less than Scotland and our car gets solid mileage.

I’ll be blogging along the way–from campfires, hotel rooms, and free wireless at Krystal–and will definitely be making the most of Sirius Radio.  Now, though, for those last minute provisions…