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Hey does this site still work? Yes, it’s been pretty quiet around here lately, but that is all about to change. After working every day but one since December it is time to get back on the road and on to new adventures.

We figured since we are here on the right side of the country why not give it a look around? We intended to do that when we moved to Vermont, however, it has ended up that we have only had 5 nights in the camper since last August, where we expected to have many dozens based on the lies we were told about the job we took. That is totally unacceptable and is changing starting today! What was the point of coming here anyway? Not to work 100 hour weeks, that’s for sure. Time is our most valuable asset, we have an unknown but finite amount of it, and we want to use the rest of ours wisely. Goodbye Woodshed, hello open road.

We are headed south out of Vermont on a grand road trip we are calling the East Coast Adventure. Now don’t get me wrong, Vermont is great, but if you aren’t able to get out and about what’s the doggone point? So here we go.

At this point we have a rough route and a few highlights we plan to see, but a lot of this trip has not been planned as of yet. We’ll be spending the next 6 weeks or so heading south down the east coast to the Carolina’s, then head inland to Great Smoky Mountain National Park, back north up the Appalachians and eventually end up in Maine. Our first big stop is going to be in New Jersey. Yes, New Jersey! We’ll be checking out a few things including the Pine Barrens, a 1.1 million acre ecosystem protected as a National Reserve. Yes, 22 percent of New Jersey is a forest called the Pine Barrens, it’s not all cities and highways.

We’ve been using a pretty cool tool called Furkot to map out our route and some of our stops, and you can see an interactive map of the trip as it’s planned to date below. As of now it looks like we’ll cover about 4200 miles over the next ~47 days.

East Coast Adventure

We hope you enjoy following along as we post periodic updates of our trip. Typically we wait until we’re home, comb through hundreds of photos and pull together video files after the fact. Due to the fact that we’re not even sure where “home” currently is, or when we’ll be there, we are going to attempt to post as we go! Until then, check out the video below introducing our East Coast Adventure Series, be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel if you haven’t already, and we’ll see you soon, from somewhere out on the trail.

If you take a look at our map and have suggestions for stops we should make along the way, please leave us a comment!