Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas (2), Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Washington, Home.
We are starting the new year headed back home from Florida. 3,600 miles over 22 days (weather permitting). We are going to be flexible and these things will undoubtedly change, but here is the rough draft of our plan.
We are going to make mostly 2-night stops this trip instead of the 1-nighters we used to do. In some cases 3-4 nights at the same spot to enjoy the sights and visit with family. We are also going to limit our trips to 400 miles a day or less, although the Nevada to Idaho stretch is actually 496 miles, and that makes a really long day. Always learning from problems experienced in prior years travels…even at our age. No comparison please with old dogs and new tricks!
Leaving later in the year has made us watch the winter weather and the mountain passes. We are disappointed as we are planning on missing California this year. Hopefully this will make an easier trip through the mountains and we’ll make a separate trip to visit family and friends there later on in the year.
Ingress
We are both over 23,800,000 AP on the way to 24 million for Level 15. So close! We could possibly put a 100K+ day together today – we’ll see. On the trip home we will plan on doing some quick unique captures and possibly a few missions after we stop and then throw fields the following day. I expect to see a lot of parks and graveyards so we can maximize the number of uniques for the short time we ‘ll have at each stop.
Looking forward to getting back to Granite and putting that all back. I’m sure Tall Vanilla Chai will be glad to see us as he has been struggling to keep that part of the region green. Keep it up, bro – we’re on the way!