Month: June 2013

Today is the last day of the trip. We got an early start and did a workshop at the Met Sacramento High School. We had a number of students, and it was also their last day of school. The feedback was really positive. Zach and Joshua joined me as well to help with the workshop. … Continue reading Day 67: Sacramento, CA –> San Francisco, CA

Today is the last night of the trip. We started in in Medford and drove to Sacramento. It was about a five hour-ish drive. We listened to a bit of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and some music as well. We arrived and worked in a starbucks for a bit before heading to a friend’s … Continue reading Day 66: Medford, OR –> Sacramento, CA

We started in Portland and had two school visits today. The first was at the Catedral School where we ran a workshop with about fifty seventh and eighth graders. Then we headed to the Oregon City Service Learning Academy to meet with some teachers who may use CodeHS next year. After that we drove to … Continue reading Day 65: Portland, OR –> Medford, OR

This was a longer drive than we thought, about seven hours. We took 84W all of the way. The landscape varies a lot as you drive through Oregon. Right when you cross the border it looks a lot like Idaho, but then you see the trees, and drive along the Columbia River and see Mount … Continue reading Day 64: Boise, ID –> Portland, OR

We drove from Idaho Falls to Boise today. The route was mostly 84 west, and this was maybe one of the emptiest stretches of road on the whole trip. And that says a lot. This was really middle of nowhere land. When we got to Boise, we worked in a Starbucks for a while. We … Continue reading Day 63: Idaho Falls, ID –> Boise, ID

We started in Cody, which is really a beautiful spot in the daytime. We were right on the Shoshone River, and got to ride an ATV briefly. We drove to Yellowstone, and then to Old Faithful. We got to the geyser just in time as the crowd was building up and got to see an … Continue reading Day 62: Cody, WY –> Idaho Falls, ID

The longest driving day of the trip so far was today. We started in Lead, SD, and then drove up towards Bowman, North Dakota. We were in that state for not very long before we headed towards Billings, MT. After that we continued to Cody, WY. We had dinner in a nice italian restaurant. Listened … Continue reading Day 61: Mount Rushmore, SD –> Cody, WY

Today was a full driving day. We dropped by sister off at the airport and continued west on I90. We stopped in the Badlands and then also at Mount Rushmore. We stopped at a small gas station and then diner/grill in Chamberlain, South Dakota on our way. The drive through the Black Hills near the … Continue reading Day 60: Sioux Falls, SD –> Mount Rushmore, SD

Today we left our friends’ place in Omaha and headed up to South Dakota. It was quite a busy day. We drove up to Sioux Falls, which was about three hours, and we stopped for lunch at a pizza/pasta. Then we took the car briefly across the street to get the tires checked out. Afterwards … Continue reading Day 59: Omaha, NE –> Sioux Falls, SD