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After graduating in May, I wasn’t sure what to do. I couldn’t travel abroad like I had hoped… so I thought, why not travel around my own country… and sleep in my car… for several months? I hit the road and figured out road life on the fly. Here are some of my adventures. Hope you enjoy the blog!

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End of the Road

My peregrinations are coming to an end, and so, it seems, is the pandemic. I’ve met a lot of people, seen a lot of amazing things, and am ready to be in one place for a while. After indulging myself on a daily basis, doing whatever I feel like whenever I want to, it’s time…

by K A

Trouble in Louisiana

Ocean Springs, Mississippi drew me back for a glorious week on the Gulf Coast. I was lazily enjoying my time when I learned a cold front was approaching. I had planned on visiting a friend in Texas, so I thought I’d better head that way. I visited New Orleans and stopped in Lafayette to get…

by K A

Oconee Bells

One of the rarest wildflowers in the United States, Oconee bells, or Shortia galacifolia (the specific epithet calls out the foliage’s resemblance to the genus Galax), grows mostly in just a few places in the mountains of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. I spotted these at the botanical garden in Asheville, North Carolina, a…

by K A

Wupatki

Wupatki National Monument shares a border with Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument, so you can visit both on the same day. As you drive through Wupatki, you can see the Painted Desert in the distance. The monument is the site of several structures where the Pueblo people once lived, as early as 500 A.D. The…

by K A

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