Day 25 – 8/26 South Jetty, Newport


🐾 Jack’s Notes If you call drinking beer and sleeping all day doing something then we did something today. Well, I didn’t drink beer but I did sleep. So, here’s the deal – my many fans want to come by and say hello and I tell them how much I love them but I have…
Today began with more prairie. And then more prairie. The drive west from Regina continued through an enormous landscape of open fields, hay bales, and seemingly endless sky. Every so often, a dirt road would intersect the highway and disappear toward the horizon. I stopped to photograph a few of them because they seemed to…
Wonderful day of hiking and exploration beginning with Cape Perpetua. From there we went to the Heceta Head Lighthouse. And finally the town of Yachats. 🐾 Jack’s Notes Bam; you know when I come home tired, it’s been a good day and boy was I tired today. We went to this magical place where I…
Every long journey begins with the same question: How far can I get today? For Jack and me, the answer was 437 miles. We pulled out of the driveway around 12:30 p.m., leaving behind familiar roads with Oregon—and whatever adventures waited between here and there—still thousands of miles away. Day one wasn’t about spectacular scenery…
The first morning of a long road trip always feels different. Yesterday was about leaving home. Today, it finally felt like I was crossing America. The morning began with a stop at Planet Fitness in Richmond, Indiana. One of the challenges of traveling by SUV is figuring out the daily routine, and a nationwide gym…
Some travel days are about checking miles off the odometer. Others are about discovering places you never knew existed. Today was definitely the second kind. The morning began with another easy drive west through Wisconsin before crossing into Minnesota. My destination was Quarry Park in Stearns County, a place I had never heard of until…