48statebus part 2 (we leave in 38 days!)

[48statebus]

A LOT has changed, for starters diesel went from $2.75 to $4.00/gallon...plus we had 4 people bail on our little trip. So we've had to drastically change the make up of the 48state/48 days road trip. Below is a list of all the days and dates for the trip and some of our reserved activities are in there too!

Day 0 May 8th Thursday: Leave Pensacola, Fl at about 7pm…drive through the night

Day 1 May 9th Friday: drive all day, Memphis by lunch get to St. Louis by night time

Day 2 May 10th Saturday: St. Louis all day, drive to Tulsa, OK by night time

Day 3 May 11th Sunday: All day along Rt. 66, spend the night near Mesa Verde state park

Day 4 May 12th Monday: spend some time at Mesa Verde State
Park and get to 4 corners monument by 4pm local time….get to the Grand Canyon at night*****campsite already reserved******

Day 5 May 13th Tuesday: wake up at 3am to hike the Grand Canyon, get back to the rim by nightfall…drive to Hoover Dam sleep near there

Day 6 May 14th Wednesday: Hoover Dam tour in the morning…Vegas the rest of the day and Cirque de Soleil "Zumanity" at 10:30 at night

Day 7 May 15th Thursday: Las Vegas all day

Day 8 May 16th Friday: Leave Vegas til noon…drive to San Diego****Apartment reserved, staying with a friend****

Day 9 May 17tth Saturday: San Diego****Apartment reserved, staying with a friend****


Day 10 May 18th Sunday: San Diego all day…then drive to Los Angeles******Staying the night at a different Friend's house*****

Day 11 May 19th Monday: Los Angeles******staying with friend #2 again*******

Day 12 May 20th Tuesday: Los Angeles*****staying with friend #2 again*******

Day 13 May 21st Wednesday: Six Flags Magic Mountain all day…drive to Yosemite that night****Campsite already reserved****

Day 14 May 22nd Thursday: Yosemite****Campsite already reserved****

Day 15 May 23rd Friday: Yosemite****Campsite already reserved*****

Day 16 May 24th Saturday: Skydive Monterey Bay…continue to drive to SF, sleep near SF

Day 17 May 25th Sunday: San Francisco all day, Night Tour of Alcatraz reserved

Day 18 May 26th Monday: Driving hwy 101 to Crater Lake

Day 19 May 27th Tuesday: Crater Lake

Day 20 May 28th Wednesday: Driving to Mt. Rainier

Day 21 May 29th Thursday: Mt. Rainier

Day 22 May 30th Friday: Seattle, dinner at the top of the Space Needle

Day 23 May 31st Saturday: Long days drive to Yellowstone****Campsite already reserved*******

Day 24 June 1st Sunday: Yellowstone*****Campsite already reserved*****

Day 25 June 2nd Monday: Yellowstone****Campsite already reserved*****

Day 26 June 3rd Tuesday: Leave Yellowstone, drive to Custer State park*****Campsite already reserved*****

Day 27 June 4th Wednesday: Mt. Rushmore/Crazy Horse
Memorial….then drive almost all the way to Mall of America

Day 28 June 5th Thursday: Finish driving to Mall of America

Day 29 June 6th Friday: Mall of America

Day 30 June 7th Saturday: leave Mall of America, stop in Milwaukee…then drive to Chicago

Day 31 June 8th Sunday: Chicago

Day 32 June 9th Monday: Drive to Cleveland…. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Day 33 June 10th Tuesday: Drive to Niagara Falls….Maid of the Mist tour…maybe cross into Canada

Day 34 June 11th Wednesday: Drive to Adirondack state park****Campsite already reserved*****

Day 35 June 12th Thursday: Whitewater rafting Adirondack state park****Campsite already reserved******

Day 36 June 13th Friday: Leave Adirondack, Lobster lunch in Maine, then eat dinner at the Cheers bar in Boston

Day 37 June 14th Saturday: drive to NYC, first night in NYC hotel****Hotel already reserved*****

Day 38 June 15th Sunday: NYC****Hotel already reserved****

Day 39 June 16th Monday: NYC****Hotel already reserved**** Avenue Q tickets already bought

Day 40 June 17th Tuesday: NYC****Hotel already reserved****

Day 41 June 18th Wednesday: Six Flags New Jersey all day

Day 42 June 19th Thursday: Hershey Park all day

Day 43 June 20th Friday: Philadelphia all day

Day 44 June 21st Saturday: Drive to Washington DC****Campsite already reserved******

Day 45 June 22nd Sunday: Washington DC******Campsite already reserved********

Day 46 June 23rd Monday: Washington DC*****Campsite already reserved******

Day 47 June 24th Tuesday: Leave Washington DC, sleep in Latta, SC*****Grandparents house already reserved****

Day 48 June 25th Wednesday: Leave Latta early, spend the afternoon in Atlanta, GA…and then finally head home ****Finally sleep in our own beds******


The first 2.5 days are pretty hectic but other than that we really should only have 1 other crazy day and that would be the Yellowstone to Mall of America day which is going to take ALL day...

[48statebus]

As a few of you probably remember me and 3 friends were organizing a 48 state/48 day roadtrip around the USA. I got back from the trip about a month and a half ago but I'm just now getting around to posting pics for you guys.

We left on the night of May 8th, and drove through the night....and then 48 days later we returned home to Panama City Beach, Florida with 12,500 mileson the car and 2 less people on the trip:)

So here are some pics and 2 links to youtube videos I made...ask all the questions you want and I'll try to answer them all for you.

The night we left...

Crawling underneath an unlocked bridge at the Arkansas state border

The St. Louis Arch


Route 66


Mesa Verde

[48statebus]

4 Corners

Grand Canyon

Grand Canyon...we woke up at 1am to 6in. of snow and a collapsed tent.

Hoover Dam


Vegas was awesome!!!


Gun Pron for you guys from Vegas

[48statebus]

San Diego

Walking into Tijuiana for about 5 minutes....which was about 6 minutes too long

Hollywood Walk of Fame (ironically we saw Sylvester Stallone when we went to a taping for the Tonight Show with Jay Leno)


The Set of Scrubs that we snuck onto...

Yosemite

Halfdome in the background...we hiked to the top and back down the next day

[48statebus]

Hiking Half Dome

San Francisco




And this is where the 2 guys left the trip....

Crater Lake

Mt. Rainier (you couldn't see the peak it was too cloudy)

Seattle

Dinner at the top of the Space Needle

[48statebus]

Yellowstone



Mt.Rushmore

Crazy Horse Memorial

Mall of America

The "Bean" in Chicago

The top of the Sears Tower

Jordan at the United Center

Buddy Guy's Blues Club in Chicago


Alright...I can't find the pictures from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Philly NYC and Washington DC on my photobucket account but here are the 2 videos that I was talking about...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awNXS2V0vII

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C2TV...eature=related

[Mark Sedenquist]

What parts of the trip surprised you the most?

Mark

[Southwest Dave]

Hi there,
What a great experience, and one that you will remember for the rest of your life no doubt.Thanks for coming back and sharing.

I'm wondering if the e-bay bus went on this trip in the end, [I notice pics of you in a vehicle in vegas that did'nt look like a 35ft bus] if it did, I'd love to see a pic of it.

[48statebus]

What parts of the trip surprised you the most?

Mark

Hotel expenses, lol....no but seriously every part was absolutely amazing. I guess the biggest suprise was just how much fun I had in Las Vegas. I don't drink or gamble but for the 3 days I was in Vegas I had the TIME of my LIFE! It was SO much fun.

Whitewater rafting in Adirondack State Park was unreal too...the guides made the trip so enjoyable.


The bus did not end up making the trip, the cost of diesel SKYROCKETED over the course of the year that we planned the trip so it was no longer feasible to be able to take the bus. So we used a Chevrolet Tahoe...in the end it was probably a blessing.

And on a side note, the girl in the pictures (who started out as just a friend while on the trip) will be my girlfriend of 3 months in just a few short days...lol....this trip was truly amazing.

The pictures don't even do it justice b/c we weren't allowed cameras at some of the shows we attended. For example; Stomp Out Loud in Vegas, The Craig Ferguson show in LA, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in LA, Avenue Q on Broadway in NYC, The Late Show with David Letterman in NYC and like I said earlier the whitewater rafting in Adirondack State Park, and the 2 Six Flags we went too (Magic Mountain and New Jersey)