Evolution of itineraries
The sharpest amongst my visitors (Sampath was first) will have noticed that my current route significantly deviates from my initial plan. The reason was simply the weather. Backpacking in the cold is no fun (I didn’t take any photos of Montreal because I was afraid my fingers would quick-freeze and fall off instantly) and after a seemingly never-ending winter in the North (New York, Boston, Montreal, Toronto, Fredericton) I arrived in Chicago in late April and is was still cold two out of the fours days I spent there. Enough. I changed my plans: visiting Oak Ridge National Lab and friends in Tennessee for a week, I decided to move further downwards and visit New Orleans, Austin, TX (what a nice discovery), Albuquerque, NM (an unplanned stop over), Flagstaff, AZ (lots of craziness and a great travel companion), Sedona & the Grand Canyon (just wow), Las Vegas (ridiculous, decadent, fun). As I hoped there was great weather all along the way and I finally arrived in San Francisco now. I have no regrets about my change of plans. On the other hand I missed Minneapolis, Yellowstone National Park, Vancouver, Portland and Seattle. Another time…
PS. I have updated all maps on the website accordingly
7 Comments
Comment by Gabriel — June 5, 2011 @ 1:14 am
Awesome!
Comment by Jose C. — June 5, 2011 @ 5:37 am
Looking forward to hearing of your Hispanic part of the journey. I bought a new dominion; give it a look if you have time.
Comment by Splette — June 6, 2011 @ 4:05 am
Oh yes, it’s time to move on. And in fact I am quite excited about the latin america section of my trip. I’ll check out your new website some time and send u a mail…
Comment by Sampath Koppole — June 6, 2011 @ 1:01 pm
Does weather not add another dimension to the adventure (or does it dampen your spirits) ?
Yes, will be following your latin american adventure – the weather hopefully does not play folly and force you to change routes !
Comment by Sampath Koppole — June 6, 2011 @ 1:04 pm
BTW: Did you bet $10 at Las Vegas on my behalf ? What was the result ?
Comment by Splette — June 9, 2011 @ 8:55 pm
Ha, sorry forgot about that. I didn’t bet a single $ on anything in Las Vegas.
Comment by Sampath Koppole — June 14, 2011 @ 10:00 am
Another Idea : You should also somehow put up as to how long you spent in each city. For eg. Use Google Latitude (or similar) and some how export the places you have been to this site. So one can zoom to all the places you have been in that particular city. The the trail ‘d follow to the next city and so on…
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