Comments on: Road Trip! 6 Incredible Cross-Country Journeys

By: boo

boo — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 03:40:30 +0000

I have to mention a buddy of mine. She’s run into many delays along the way, and is in fact back in her home state of Oregon right now, but is attempting a walking trip across the states to raise awareness for Diabetes. Her site, walknrollfilms.com is inspirational!

By: John

John — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:20:19 +0000

This was a fun article. I wonder how many odd ways people have crossed the country?

Just a small point: while a Lamborghini can outrun almost every other car on the road, it can’t outrun police helicopters and radios. ;)
This fallacy is usually forgotten by people who get into high-speed chases and wonder why a new set of police officers are waiting up ahead.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:28:51 +0000

Check out the book Bold Spirit about the Estby women’s journey. They had a really amazing trip along the way and the aftermath of their decision was truly shocking.

By: Gussiebuns

Gussiebuns — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:01:32 +0000

You forgot about wagonteamster(dot)com! This guy has been going on the road for almost 2 years now, cross country with his horses and “wagon”, just for the fun of it. He had an unfortunate accident towards the end of his first trip after getting hit by a tractor trailer, he was in the hospital for several months and 2 of the horses died, but he has been back at it for quite some time now, picking up from where he left off, he updates almost everyday online, its fantastic.

By: BlueAloe

BlueAloe — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 03:54:27 +0000

This is a small point, but there is no Inuit tribe in Alaska (Inuits are an indigenous people in Canada). Lars Clausen rode his unicycle to raise money for an Inupiat tribe, as he says on his website.

By: Ali

Ali — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 23:24:06 +0000

What about Terry Fox
“Terry Fox was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and raised in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, a community near Vancouver on Canada’s west coast. An active teenager involved in many sports, Terry was only 18 years old when he was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma (bone cancer) and forced to have his right leg amputated 15 centimetres (six inches) above the knee in 1977.

While in hospital, Terry was so overcome by the suffering of other cancer patients, many of them young children, that he decided to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research.

He would call his journey the Marathon of Hope.

It was a journey that Canadians never forgot.After 18 months and running over 5,000 kilometres (3,107 miles) to prepare, Terry started his run in St. Johnâ€™s, Newfoundland on April 12, 1980 with little fanfare. Although it was difficult to garner attention in the beginning, enthusiasm soon grew, and the money collected along his route began to mount. He ran 42 kilometres (26 miles) a day through Canada’s Atlantic provinces, Quebec and Ontario. However, on September 1st, after 143 days and 5,373 kilometres (3,339 miles), Terry was forced to stop running outside of Thunder Bay, Ontario because cancer had appeared in his lungs. An entire nation was stunned and saddened. Terry passed away on June 28, 1981 at the age 22.

The heroic Canadian was gone, but his legacy was just beginning.

To date, close to $500 million has been raised worldwide for cancer research in Terry’s name through the annual Terry Fox Run, held across Canada and around the world.” From https://www.terryfox.org

By: Ryan B.

Ryan B. — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:54:25 +0000

I’m a broke college student, so the only road trips I’ve taken have been with my family as a kid, and short trips across the Midwest, but you’d be surprised at how much fun you can have exploring little farm towns and hidden treasures within a few hours of home. My favorite and perhaps most memorable trip was to the Field of Dreams in Iowa, where I fell for my first love.

By: Kristin

Kristin — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 17:03:10 +0000

When my husband and I were first dating, we were working at a theatre company on South Bass Island in Lake Erie. When that job was done, we drove to Atlanta for an audition, stayed overnight, drove to Rochester, MN to pick up his stuff from his parents house, stayed one night, went across to Missoula, MT to pick up some things I had in storage, stayed one night, and then drove straight through to San Jose, CA, where we had jobs waiting for us. We’d only been together for a couple of months, and we had so much fun on this trip that we knew it was meant to be. That was 14 years ago.

By: P. Esh

P. Esh — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:36:10 +0000

I took the train from Norfolk, VA to Sacramento. Then the Amtrak to Santa Cruz, CA. I did it in 2002 and it only cost $227 dollars for a three day journey. I meet a lot of people, had a romance, and received a free dinner from a former Marine. I was in the Marines at the time. I would suggest this to anyone who doesn’t have a lot of money, but has to the time to travel across the country. One of the best things about it was I had a 3 hour lay-over in Chicago. Since the station is downtown and really no security like at the airport. I was able to explore Chicago a little bit before continuing my trip.

By: SmallTownVet

SmallTownVet — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 10:24:11 +0000

I wish you guys had included Project America Run. This was taken from his Facebook page:

“In May of 2010, to honor our fallen men and women of the Iraq War, Mike Ehredt, an Army Veteran and postal clerk from Driggs, Idaho, will be running the highways and backroads of our United States. Over 4300 miles in their memory. With a reverse chronological order of our fatalities, he will begin in the Pacific Northwest and place a flag with each soldiers name every mile, along the roads he travels, until his journey is complete. One name, one flag, each mile, for those whose lives and dreams were sacrificed. A memorial, a silent symbol of thanks, to those who were taken so quickly from us.”

You can also track his current progress on www(dot)projectamericarun(dot)com.