I’ve been traveling pretty fast since landing in Columbus on Sat afternoon. But here’s what my accommodations have looked like so far. While I brought a tent, I’ve just been sleeping in the rental car—which has been quite handy, as I’ve been arriving at camp around midnight. 🏷️ 25.05C
I believe it 😂 🏷️ 25.05C
After getting stuck behind at least two dozen buggies over the last 15 miles of rural highway, I was not at all surprised to find this sign. 25.05C
Roadside truths
“If you save one life, it is as if you saved the world.”
📍 The Ohio Holocaust and Liberators Memorial 25.05C
I’m off on a 2+ week questing roadtrip adventure. I’m flying my camping gear into Columbus, then heading across northern PA via Pittsburgh. Jen flies into Philly midweek, and we’ll hit several national park units up into Maine. She’ll fly home from Boston, and I’ll drive back to Columbus. 25.05C
It’d be great to have a good term for this : We Need to Remember Problems We Solved
Our local brewery has a thing about tiny dinosaurs; three scattered throughout. So we had to offer up our own addition (they provided the can). 😆
I wrote a bit about our recent weekend of local museums, which included a neighborhood historical society, a historic fire station, and an exhibit and interpretative site on the WWII-era Japanese American internment camp that was located just south of metro Phoenix.
Today is the one year anniversary of my dad’s death.
It’s been a weird year since he passed away. I’ve vacillated between reflection, gratitude, sadness, and confusion. Today, I’m commemorating it with a beverage (or several) at the place we’d enjoy happy hour together in his last few years.
When the wife notices that the BEST DEAL you found happens to add a couple days (cough—ok, quite a few—cough) to the trip, which might allow you to pull some of your roadtrip shenanigans that deposit you in states adjacent to the states adjacent to where you had planned on going, for weird quests.
Saturday afternoon at the office.
My local public library branch now offers their own version of Amazon Lockers for hold items, which means you can show up any time of day and pick up the book or media item you reserved online without ever going inside.
I forgot to post this last week, but I also finally updated my progress on a few other relatively new quests (aka, Jen helped research a bunch of shit for me).
→ A National Park in 50 Different Countries: rscottjones.com/quests/na…
→ 100 UNESCO World Heritage Sites: rscottjones.com/quests/un…
→ Seven Natural Wonders of the World: rscottjones.com/quests/se…
→ Countries & Territories of the Caribbean: rscottjones.com/quests/co…
9 years ago today, I visited—nay, SUMMITED—the very very very tippy top high point of…Delaware. No safety ropes, sans supplemental oxygen, avoiding certain danger. Badass style.
IT MADE ME FEEL SO ALIVE
(and marked off another item on my High Points of Otherwise Flat States quest)
😆🤣🤣
This 22-min video on the secret economics of Google Street View, especially the “unofficial” street view additions, was more interesting than I expected.
A rabbit hole to determine if human blood accounts for 2% of all US exports.
Whoops, I accidentally adopted a new quest today:
☑️ Visiting a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 50 Countries. 😆🤣🤷♂️
(I’m at 27/50)
More time zone craziness:
If you celebrated New Year’s Eve on Kiritimati, went to bed, woke up, enjoyed your New Year’s Day, went to bed again, woke up a few minutes after midnight on the 2nd of January, and took a plane to Jarvis Island, you could arrive just in time to celebrate New Year’s Eve.
Fell down the rabbit hole on this stuff a few years ago when I was considering adopting an “All the Time Zones” quest:
📺 I Found the Dumbest Time Zone
In the end, I made a simple goal of visiting at least 24 Time Zones. With offsets, there are 38 total time zones, and I’m currently at 23 of 24.