We made it to Wisconsin!  I was burning a bit too much oil at this point, and it was a bit concerning, but from here, I could get a free tow back to Wausau if I really needed it.  We crossed the Mississippi river which is the point of the trip later in the month. It’s already pretty large by Iowa, so it’ll be interesting to see just how small it gets at...

I’ve been through Nebraska at least a thousand times, and I apparently never knew they built a tower in the prairie to oversee the dozens of train lines that come together in North Platte. I told the kids, “Buckle your belts because we are going to the train tower!” and we were off.  Then I got pulled over in Hershey (not the one in Pennsylvania,...

Apparently back in the Protozoic Era or whatever, there was this president called Abe Lincoln.  He apparently built this interstate highway during the Revolutionary War or something, so they erected a memorial for him. The sign said this was the highest point, but I didn’t even feel a buzz.  Must be some weak shit. The sculptor really captured his face really...

After stopping in SLC for the evening, we drove our Ford Econoline convoy across the U-S-A, CONVOY! Needed a place to fill up the ol’ grease tank, so we stopped in Green River, Wyoming.  They have a free history museum to let the kids stretch their legs across this huge, desolate state. Fossils Dad history stuff. Turns out there was some kind of asian...

After a one-year hiatus due to the Covids, we returned to WVO roadtrippin’ in 2021!  It was a short trip this time, only totalling 5268 miles, and we were confined to the borders of the United States.  No trip to Canada for poutine this year. After an early start at 2am, we got through Vegas before traffic got bad, and we stopped for a picnic breakfast.  Then...

Home Base Wisconsin

The sun was setting, not just on this day of roadtripping, but on the trip back to Los Angeles. We passed through Sacramento around dusk and tried our best to use our Schwarzenegger accents to mispronounce “Sacreementoe” and “Grey Davis” and “the buuurocrats.” On the route back to...

As you all know well, Glenn is a huge Poth Heed.  He constantly rambles on about BC Bud and Humboldt County.  So when we drove through the California town of “Weed,” he went into convulsions. I’ve never seen him film more B-Roll in my entire life. There was a section of the prairie where there were no Weed signs. And then, like the burning bush and...

Crossing into California again. Further down the interstate, you can see Mt Shasta in the distance.  ...

Filled up the grease here in southern Oregon.  It was getting hot.  It’s practically a desert down here. Glenn was too scared to fire up the AC because he noticed his harmonic balancer was hanging on by a thread.  He figured the pump would put bust what remained of the v-belt setup off.  So we had to schlub it back to...