{"id":52,"date":"2016-02-11T00:15:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T00:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bandanabow.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2016-02-11T00:40:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T00:40:35","slug":"embarking-on-a-21000-mile-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bandanabow.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/11\/embarking-on-a-21000-mile-road-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Embarking on a 21,000-Mile Road Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It all began back in March of 2015 when the pressure of post-college-grad life loomed in the distance and everyone demanded an answer to the &#8220;What are you going to do after graduation?&#8221; question. 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While these were most certainly contributing factors to the trip&#8217;s inspiration, a book from one of my final college\u00a0classes played a particularly influential\u00a0role.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"122\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bandanabow.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/11\/embarking-on-a-21000-mile-road-trip\/attachment\/298\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/bandanabow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/298.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2816,1880\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;13&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 40D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1442782995&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;38&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"298\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/bandanabow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/298-1024x684.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-122\" src=\"http:\/\/bandanabow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/298-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"298\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bandanabow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/298-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bandanabow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/298-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bandanabow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/298-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bandanabow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/298-330x220.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A John Steinbeck novel, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/travels-with-charley-john-steinbeck\/1001188764\" target=\"_blank\">Travels with Charley<\/a>&#8221; reveals the highs and lows of Steinbeck&#8217;s camper-truck road trip around America, along with his musings, discoveries and revelations. With the help of his French poodle, Charley, Steinbeck journeys around the U.S. searching for the heart and identity of America. Along the way, he visits old friends, meets new ones and catches a glimpse of\u00a0America&#8217;s soul along the way. If you haven&#8217;t read it, I highly recommend that you do.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of the book and through the class discussions, my love for road trips and travel writing grew tremendously. The idea of driving across the veins of America with nothing but a packed car and a dog sounded magical. Needless to say, the idea was planted. As the semester progressed, I finished my senior thesis paper and a few other final projects, and started creating the most intense Excel, road trip spreadsheet of a lifetime!\u00a0If my public relations internship taught me nothing else, it taught me Excel.<\/p>\n<p>After hours of googling, googling and more googling, I compiled a lofty list of more than 300-rows worth of states, cities and sight-seeing destinations. A couple months later, diploma in hand (well fake diploma, they mail you the real one later), I graduated and started a contract job with a marketing company based in Colorado. 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