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a plan and then again 4 months ago

I’ve been planning to do this since I was about 20, with various moments making it seem more like a possibility than others. Still, years down the road I find myself with quite a few failed attempts (money, people bailing, getting a job at the last minute) and no successful journey.

I’m not sure how soon I’ll actually get in a car and add my carbon footprint to the interstate, but I don’t want to lose sight of this particular goal as my head gets crowded with all sorts of other ambitions.



Untitled 5 months ago

i don’t have any real “career choice” for when i finish school but my only real ‘plan’ for life is to move to america before i settle down and be an adult. it wasn’t until this very week that i watched “elizabethtown” and decided that a road trip across america would be a fantastic thing to do. i’ve already started looking into it (it’s actually how i came across 43thing.com) and i have promised myself that i’m going to do it. i just need the means to do so.



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Road Trip! 7 months ago

Who doesn’t love a good road trip?

I don’t know when. I don’t know who. I don’t know how. I do know this will happen. Road trips are where you learn who you are and who your friends are. This will be the best trip ever.



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Untitled 10 months ago

preferrably with my husband and then again with my children when they have grown up a bit



Change of Plan 19 months ago

It was supposed to happen last summer, turns out selling a house is hard work! So it’s going to be this summer instead! I’m still hella excited about it! And this time it’ll be with my fiance too!



On the Road 2 years ago

I did this the summer after reading On the Road. Started off with some heavy duty planning but found it much better to just drive and see where I ended up. Can’t wait to do it again, spend longer and get lost more.



Untitled 2 years ago

The plan so far is to drive from AZ to New York this summer with my mom, step dad, and 4 dogs lol. My mom and Gregg (step dad) are moving to New York as soon as their house sells. But since I don’t live in the US anymore this plan has to go perfectly in order for me to be able to go. They have to sell their house by the end of April…possibly the beginning of May because I only have 2 1/2 months back home in the states before I have to come back to England.
So keeping my hopes high that someone will fall in love with their charming house any day now.



Questionable 2 years ago

My personal experience has been solely with family members, ie: mom and dad. We’ve driven three times across the country, literally, from los angeles to charleston, south carolina. It was quite a hellish ordeal, just being in confined spaces with parents while in teenage years….

I really do think that one can grasp something greater than him or her self through this experience, so in the end, it’s worth taking.

It would probably be better to take the trip either with close friends, or complete strangers; each though, offers an entirely different sort of experience.



DONE! 2 years ago

well i took my trip….2 months…10,000 miles…..amazing



my roadtrip 3 years ago

I’m going to road trip across the United States in August of 06. I’m planning on making it to at least 30 different states, including stops in California, Nevada, Virginia, New York, Florida, Missouri, Texas, and Wisconson.




 

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