All photos for this trip can be found in our
2015 South East North West Around the USA Photo Album
Some are also shown in our weekly blogs.
2015 South East North West Around the USA Photo Album
Some are also shown in our weekly blogs.
This was our second six month (or close to it) USA road trip in the last four years. It was a follow-up to our 2012 trip when we tried to make a large dent in the number of MLB (baseball) parks we have seen. In 2012 we saw nine MLB parks with a 7-2 home team record. This year we saw eleven parks with a 6-5 home team record. We have now seen all 30 of the current MLB parks. The other ten parks were seen on various other trips, for example, we visited Rogers Centre, to see the Blue Jays, when we got together in Toronto with our friend James a good ten years ago. For the eleven ball games we went to this trip, we only saw three teams twice so all in all, we saw 19 different teams.
Along with those 11 remaining ball parks, to complete our goal of seeing all 30, we didn't really have any fixed plans other than to just see what we see along the way. And, we saw many interesting things that we may have never had the opportunity to see if they didn't just happen to be on our way through somewhere. They are all mentioned in our weekly blogs listed blow.
Here are a couple of maps as we've broken our overall route into 2 sections, basically what we call "getting to Bar Harbor Maine" and "getting back home again"...
Getting to Bar Harbor Maine...
Getting back home again...
Our general travel route for this trip covered 34,000+ kilometres (21,000+ miles) and we touched 39 US states (some at least twice) including Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, DC (we'll call that a state here), New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada.
Aside from our goal of visiting every current Major League Baseball park, we have now also touched every one of the 48 contiguous states along with Washington DC.
Altogether we were in the USA for 168 days so, counting days in the USA over the last few years, we will be filing form 8840 to reaffirm our closer connection to Canada!
In the past we have shown a variety of statistics about gas prices etc but unfortunately Brian's PC went "toes to the sky" a few months into the trip and all spreadsheets are now in hibernation until we get that looked into. We'll update this summary when more info is available (if ever)...
The links below point to each of our weekly blogs. Each week is linked to the one before and after as the case may be...
Week 1: Courtenay to Portland, Oregon
Week 2: Portland to Gallup, New Mexico
Week 3: Gallup to Columbus, Texas
Week 4: Columbus to Houston, Texas
Week 5: Houston to Tuscumbia, Alabama
Week 6: Tuscumbia to Asheville, North Carolina
Week 7: Asheville to Lexington, North Carolina
Week 8: Lexington to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Week 9: Pittsburgh to Washington, DC
Week 10: Washington to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Week 11: Philadelphia to New York, New York
Week 12: New York to Plymouth, Massachusetts
Week 13: Plymouth to Salisbury, Massachusetts
Week 14: Salisbury to Lancaster, New Hampshire
Week 15: Lancaster to Cleveland, Ohio
Week 16: Cleveland to Detroit, Michigan
Week 17: Detroit to St Louis, Missouri
Week 18: St Louis to Chicago, Illinois
Week 19: Chicago to Alma Center, Wisconsin
Week 20: Alma Center to Kansas City, Missouri
Week 21: Kansas City to Winnemucca, Nevada
Week 22: Winnemucca to Petaluma, California
Week 23: Petaluma to Florence, Oregon
Week 24: Florence to Astoria, Oregon
Week 25: Astoria to Courtenay, British Columbia
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