Preparing for The Big Trip

Posted on 20 August 2008 by Jason

I’ve delayed the start of my trip by a day. My last day on the job was Monday, and I needed a day to unwind and col­lect my thoughts before I could seri­ously con­sider pack­ing every­thing I’d need into the car for a trip that could last more than a month.

I’m using a Dash Express GPS for nav­i­ga­tion, and to power the Dipity timeline/map on the front page of the site. I’m shoot­ing video with a Panasonic HDC-SD9, and using a Nikon D200 for still pho­tog­ra­phy, and a Zoom H2 for audio recording.

So, the trip starts Thursday, when I head to St. Louis. I plan on stop­ping at Mario’s in Greenville, Ill., for pizza, because it’s been rec­om­mended to me.

Thanks for com­ing along for the ride.

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  • http://www.thebadpennynews.com Mike

    Jason,

    Tom Jones?

    Dewd!

    Bon voy­age. Travel safe, well, and happy. At least ABG isn’t threat­en­ing to take you to court to get back their money.

    Mike

  • Tony

    Mario’s is awesome!

  • Amy

    That Dash Express looks pretty nifty. Why didn’t I buy one of those? I love my Garmin, and the funny way that the but the traf­fic ser­vice is worth­less. I’m not even going to renew the sub­scrip­tion when the 90-day trial runs out.

    So has the East Coast been crossed off your itin­er­ary? We have bet­ter pizza than you’ll get in Greenville, IL. :-)

  • http://jasonbaldwin.us Jason

    The Dash Express is kinda great, but not with­out its flaws. For instance, it’s telling me it can’t search along a route because there is no route. But there is. I’m confused.

    The plan is to go until I run out of money, basi­cally. I’m head­ing to St. Louis today, Denver via KC, then Albuquerque, Tucson, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle before head­ing back east. Then it’s the Great Lakes, or at least Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Chicago before head­ing home for a cou­ple days, then fol­low­ing the Mississippi to New Orleans, east around Florida, and up the coast to New York and beyond.

  • Amy

    That Dash Express looks pretty nifty. Why didn’t I buy one of those? I love my Garmin, and the funny way that the but the traf­fic ser­vice is worth­less. I’m not even going to renew the sub­scrip­tion when the 90-day trial runs out.

    So has the East Coast been crossed off your itin­er­ary? We have bet­ter pizza than you’ll get in Greenville, IL. :-)