MoART '04: Top Ten Reflections

The Mother of All Road Trips

"The more you travel, the larger your horizons become."

#10: The western states of the U.S. are a LOT bigger than they look on a map.
#9: Canadian provinces are even bigger -- it took 20 hours of driving just to cross British Columbia.
#8: North America can be described as desert in the south, forest in the north, and a giant farm in between.
#7: The Alaska Highway is not as bad as you think (until you pass Whitehorse). Expect wide, paved shoulders and services every 30 miles.
#6: Moose can run, and quite gracefully too.
#5: Midnight cocktails on the patio under a bright Alaska sky can really mess up your body's clock.
#4: If you drive a convertible in San Francisco's Mission District after dark with a gun case sticking out of the back seat, nobody will mess with you.
#3: Kids can survive for extended periods of time without fast food and TV.
#2: Spouses and kids who endure nearly 13,000 miles on the road in one month deserve canonization.
#1: It is possible to pass the same RV from Oklahoma four times when you have a three-year-old boy who likes to stop and "pee in the grass".