So as most of you may have known, (except for Dianne, that is) Ali and I went out to Louisiana this past weekend.
Driving out there always makes me want to see more of America, because as much as I’ve seen and/or been to, it’s no where near close to what America is.
I’ve been to 27 states, all but 2 states east of the Mississippi River (Kentucky and Michigan), the only states west of the Mississippi that I’ve been to are Louisiana (dir), Texas (dir dir) and Nevada.
Being from the northeast and now living in the south, I see differences in culture, environment and everything in between everyday. That’s a given. But if you go from state to state up there, things don’t change all that drastically. Driving from Texas to Louisiana, things change quite a bit. Hell, things change in Texas quite a bit once you start driving away from the cities.
I would love to be able to one day drive across the country, and visit all the places in America that you hear about and see pictures of. Mountains, hills, farm after farm, little white churches in the middle of nowhere, miles between houses, last chance for gas for 300 miles signs, the desert, the plains, the nothingness and the everythingness.
This site is going to chronicle a trip by blogger/vlogger Cali Lewis of 50 states in 50 weeks. It’s going to be an awesome blog/vlog to follow once they get started around September by their estimates.
http://www.bigtrip.tv/
I will definitely be following that blog in my RSS reader and living through them. One day I would love to have the opportunity to do something like this. Ali and I in an RV, driving across the country at our own pace, stopping where we want, exploring the country, the people, our history.
I’d love to, when, you know, we have time. And AIR cards so that we can be online as much as possible.
I want to go to teeny towns and eat in diners and go to county festivals and eat local cuisine. I think that would be so awesome. And I want to drive the east and west coasts staying in beach towns at little B&B’s (nice ones) and shop for antiques and eat. (Notice the eating theme).
I think it would all be a blast.
You went to Louisiana this weekend?