We’ll be using Priceline and BiddingForTravel for most hotel stays during the trip. Bidding For Travel is a forum with tips for successfully bidding on Priceline, as well as postings of successful and unsuccessful bids. For stops between destinations, we’ll…
The girl-child says she wants to hike the Grand Canyon … by which, she means more than walking twenty feet out onto the overlook and saying, “Yep, that’s a big hole, let’s head for Vegas.” This trip is going to…
As with my kayak trips, we’ll be tracking hikes and walking with the Garmin eTrex 20. The Garmin Basecamp software will handle editing the GPS track to remove the crap that shows up because I forget to turn it off…
Obviously the car that started this insanity is the most important piece of equipment. Toyota should definitely get on-board with sponsoring this trip. MapQuest is currently estimating the fuel costs at around $800. That’s more than the original $600…
Being an inveterate capitalist, I’ve decided to open the Jackson 2012 Graduation Road Trip up to corporate sponsors. Sadly, I don’t have any actual connections to get the sponsorships up front, so this’ll be on spec. Over the course of…