T minus 1 Month and Counting
I'm doing it! I'm taking a Golden Gap Year. I am setting off the end of next month for a three quarter circumnavigation of the United States, with a short dip into Canada. Being the neurotic overthinker I am, I have reservations for the first month made already. I have most of the gear I need, and could technically go right now with what I have, but I think I will be happier with water jugs instead of a dozen Camelbak bottles like I do for local camping, and with something besides three suitcases for the large amount of clothes I'll need, since I'll be doing laundry once every ten days or so. Did I mention I am primarily tent camping? Around the top of Lake Superior, across Vermont and New Hampshire, a hotel on Cape Cod, AAC campground in the Gunks, and it's kind of up in the air after that. Later plans include Virginia Beach again, Ocracoke, Huntsville, Alabama for the Space Museum, lots of zigzagging to get everything in New Mexico and Arizona, then Joshua Tre...