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Rambling 2007

2007 represents our first full year traveling full-time and makes a whole series of loops starting and ending in Austin, Texas. By carefully choosing times and places we spent a lot of time camping but I think we still spent more than half the year in motels primarily due to three long stays in Columbus Ohio visiting friends. As you can see from the map we generally stayed on a doctors in Columbus Ohio to dad in Shreveport Louisiana axis with winter in Texas and several diversions to keep things interesting. I also managed to attend two photography seminars and hopefully you will notice an improvement in picture quality as I get more experience and better equipment. For the full year we ended up with a total of 49 days of actual travel which is a little less that double what we had for the six months of 2006.

2007 Travels Map

Again for the curious this totals up to 9925 miles between motels and campgrounds with local travel about doubling the total mileage on the truck. It also passes through at least part of 19 states although only focused in the Midwest. It also encompasses over 3300 photographs that I finally waded through so you can select more detail on any of the states, cities, and special attractions we enjoyed.

This link to the 2007 Travel Map will take you to an extremely detailed view in Google Maps that is fully interactive and can be zoomed in to see the exact routes if you'll be patient while it loads.