Hello & welcome! You’re reading this blog because you know and love me, and possibly even my husband, Zach. We’re opening up shop to share tales of our upcoming hobotrip, a 3 month adventure that we’ll be embarking on next summer. It’s essentially going to be like this: drive west for many hours, stop, spend a week or two in the backcountry, repeat. Eventually we’ll hit the ocean and then work our way back.
Why have we termed it hobotrip? Because we’ll be homeless, and though we won’t be riding any rails, we figure it’s fitting enough. And Zach has a hobo fascination.
Right now we’re in the planning stages and I thought it might be fun to start blogging it now, when we’re about 6 months out. This involves super-fun budget planning nights, asking for a solar shower for Christmas, and mapping, mapping mapping.
Our current hypothetical route will take us from Minneapolis through the Badlands, spending a couple weeks in Yellowstone, and then: Glacier, North Cascades, Seattle, Olympic, a coastal Oil City area hike, Mt. Rainier, possibly cramming in some Oregon coast and Crater Lake. After that we’ll head on down to Denver (to find an apartment for the fall), and back through Minneapolis to Ely for a few weeks in the BWCA during August, and perhaps a jog over to Isle Royale. Google maps makes it look like this:
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This has been a long time coming for us. We both grew up camping and have been on countless backpacking and canoe trips, but never any trips this long. And I haven’t had a summer vacation free of working since 2000, so I’m pretty excited for the trip, even if I have to boil water over a fire to wash my own underwear.
So… over the next 6 months we’re just going to keep up a blog about a variety of things. The planning, the changes to the plan, the parks we’ll be visiting, stories and photos of our past trips, probably some general backpacking features and a complete statistical breakdown of why I shouldn’t be worried about bear maulings. Stay tuned.
Oh! Julie this is so cool. As someone that has never camped in a tent in the woods, I'm excited to hear about the all logisics that go into a big camping trip.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like an awesome trip. I look forward to your updates.
ReplyDeleteThis is awesome, can't wait to see and hear about it. As a native Montanan though I have to say you need more time in that state. Don't say I didn't warn you.
ReplyDeleteOh, the Places You'll Go!
ReplyDeleteAnd with great anticipation, I will follow your each and every step.
Even if it is from the other side of this world.