Road Trip Home: Day 1
After deciding to leave Epic and Madison, I started to plan my trip home. Since I would be bringing my car back to the Bay Area with me, why not make it a road trip?
I chose to construct a route going through the northern part of the country, as I hadn’t visited much of that area and there were a bunch of national parks and places that I’ve always wanted to visit, most notably Yellowstone and Mount Rushmore.
As I pieced together my route, I found and added more stops to the list, ending up with a final 10-day, 9-night journey. My brother Brian took a one-way flight to Madison to join me.
All that was left was to sell my furniture, pack up my life into the car, and drive.
Kicked off the road trip bright and early in the morning (this will become a theme).
First stop was in Minneapolis, Minnesota to grab lunch with a friend. Afterwards, we took a quick detour to the Mall of America, since Brian had never been there (I’ve been once before).
The Mall of America is, like it’s name implies, the largest mall in the United States. It includes all of your standard mall stores, plus roller coasters, an aquarium, and multiple movie theaters.
I think we were just trying to not get lost in there.
After walking around the mall a bit, we continued on to our next stop in Fargo, North Dakota.
We stayed at a Courtyard hotel, which had some of the friendliest employees I’ve ever met, and that means something . Then we had some good pizza at Rhombus Guys and drove around downtown Fargo a bit.
Found an artful bison statue. Seems like a lot of cities do something like this. I’ve seen artsy hearts in San Francisco and artsy cowboy boots in Cheyenne.
After dinner, we took the evening to enjoy the nice hotel amenities, showers, and beds, as we knew the next six nights were going to be spent in sleeping bags on the ground.
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