Lists- Road Trip Edition

Everything is hyperlinked either to the product/location or the blog post about that location

If you didn't keep up with every blog post, or even if you did here is a best of list for the adventure. 

46 days on the road

10,700 miles driven

110 miles walked

30 different beds stayed in

Dozens of memories made

Best things I packed

1. America The Beautiful Annual Pass ($80) - Listed below is where I've gone and what the cost would have been were it not for the pass providing me free entry to all of them.
1. Yaquina Head Lighthouse $7
2. Sequoia/ Kings -$35
3. Petrified Forest/Painted Desert $25
4. Theodor Roosevelt $30
5. Garnet Ghost Town $6
6. Little Bighorn Battlefield $25
7. Glacier National Park $35
1. Total Value: $163 And I still have 10 months left on the pass!
2. Eeyore and Pooh- Bringing a piece of home with me made sleeping in different beds every night not so difficult-great emotional support. 
3. Sherpa- I have basically lived out of it when I get even a little cold. I'm probably photographed in it more than anything else. 
4. Keffiyeh-Scarf - Support Palestinian Artisans 
5. Sandals- Tevas I wore them EVERY DAY. I have literally walked over 100 miles in these shoes this summer. 

Top 3 West Coast Stops: (WA, OR, CA)

1. Tide Pools
2. Sequoia/Kings
3. Wine Country

Top 3 Stops Route 66/I-40 (CA, AZ, NM, TX)

1. Petrified Forest National Park
2. Spray Painting at Cadillac Ranch
3. U-Drop Inn, Shamrock TX

Top 3 stops South (LA, MS, TN, NC)

1. National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN
2. Pelican's SnoBalls,  Gatlin, TN
3. Melrose Plantation Melrose, LA

Top 3 Stops East Coast 

1. Holocaust Museum- Washington D.C
2. Wehle State Park, New York
3. Rochester, NY- Family Time

Wont choose top 3 in MN saw too many people I love and I wont choose. 

Top 3 stops on drive home (SD, ND, MT, ID, WA)

1. Wilco Concert- Missoula, MT
2. Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota
3. Little Big Horn National Monument, Montana
   

Quirkiest Stops

1. Lemmon, SD
2. Robert Johnson's grave and THE Crossroads 
3. Peabody Ducks, Peabody Hotel, Memphis, TN (See post for 2)
4. Grave of Douglass the Confederate Camel, Vicksburg, MS (See post for 2)
5. Garnet Ghost Town, Drummond, MT

Top 3 Hotels

1. Hotel La Rose, Santa Rosa, CA
2. Hyatt Centric, Rosslyn, VA
   
3. Hooks Hideaway, Babb, MT

Top Airbnb

1. Long Beach, CA

Top 5 Meals- NOT INCLUDING FAMILY

1. The Trinity (Gumbo, Meat pie & Jambalaya)- bread pudding, Cane River Commissary, Natchez, LA
2. Sandwich Sampler, Hopin' John and Grits on the side, Bar 3 BBQ, Belgrade, MT
3. Brunch at Bull & Butterfly,  Playa Vista, CA
4. SoDak at Three22 Kitchen, Aberdeen, SD
5. Breakfast sandwich, Buc-ee's 

Best Drinks

1. 903 Brewing, Sherman, TX
2. Fifth Frame, Rochester, NY
3. Silver Hand Meadery, Williamsburg, VA
4. Cocktail, Plonk, Missoula, MT
5. Mayo Family Winery, Glen Ellen, CA