Here you can read about the itinerary and provisions.
Alex’s Destinations:
- Starting Point: Issaquah, WA
- Clinton, WA (on Whidbey Island, one of the San Juan Islands in the Puget Sound)
- Freeland, WA (also on Whidbey)
- Issaquah, WA
- Spokane, WA
- Coeur d’Alene, ID
- Minneapolis, MN
- Chicago, TN,
- Boise, ID
- Placerville, CA (near Sacramento)
- Gresham, OR (near Portland)
- Lacey, WA (near Olympia)
- Tacoma, WA (near Seattle)
- Issaquah, WA
Tourist Destinations:
- Redwood Forest (California)
- Mt. Rushmore (South Dakota)
- Crazy Horse (South Dakota)
- The Badlands (South Dakota)
- Devil’s Tower (Wyoming)
Please provide sight-seeing suggestions for the following states!
- North Dakota
- Montana
- Minnesota
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Wyoming
- Utah
- Idaho
- Nevada
- Oregon
Total miles: roughly 5,500
Total driving time: roughly 90 hours
Number of states seen: 11-14
Start Date: 22 October 2012
End Date: 20 December 2012
Provisions:
- Clothes
- Many t-shirts. Some long-sleeve, others short
- Nice pair of jeans
- Favorite pair of jeans
- Lotsa wool socks
- Cotton socks
- Red sweater
- Two fleeces
- Winter snow cap
- Gloves
- Mittens
- Scarf
- Shoes
- Orange coat
- Boots
- Gators
- Work clothes
- Shirt
- Jeans
- Coat
- Set of dress clothes
- White shirt
- Black wool plants
- Blue tie
- Black socks
- Swimming trunks!
- Tools
- Caulking gun
- Duct tape
- Leatherman
- Pocketknife
- Ratchet tie-downs
- Screw driver
- Shovel
- Utility knife
- Wrench set
- Food provisions
- Food
- Beans
- Cane sugar
- Case of water bottles (emergency supply)
- Chocolate
- Crackers
- Eggs (Hard-bioled)
- Fresh coffee beans
- Fruit
- Hot chocolate
- Pasta
- Rice
- Salt & pepper
- Starbucks Via (coffee)
- Tea
- Tortillas
- Cooking tools
- Can opener
- Fork
- Knife
- Long-nose lighter
- Mess kit
- Spoon
- Stove
- Thermos
- White fuel
- Food
- Miscellaneous
- Absentee ballots and voter’s guides
- Bungee cord
- Desanitizing wipes
- Extra headlight lamp
- Extra piece of foam
- First-aid kits
- Flashlight
- Give-a-way Bibles
- Hand sanitizer
- Key duplicates
- Kleenex
- Lens cleaner
- Mini-tripod
- Paper towels
- Pen and pencils
- Plastic bags
- Printed state maps
- Snowshoes
- Sunglasses
- Tarp
- Toiletries
- Towels
- Tripod
- Twine
- Water bottle
- Weatherproof matches
- Books:
- Bilingual Bible
- Getting funded
- Journal
- Ruthless trust
- Vehicle operation
- Antifreeze
- Emergency flares
- Ice scrapper & snow brush combo
- Jumper cables
- Motor Oil
- Tire chains
- Tire wedges (two pieces of firewood lol)
- Vehicle user’s manual
- Window defogger
- Sleeping provisions
- Cotton comforter
- Earplugs
- Mattress
- Sleeping bag
- Velcro drapes for canopy
- Wool blanket
- Electronics (never left in car unattended!)
- Alarm clock
- Battery charger
- Canon SLR camera
- Extra batteries
- GPS
- Headphones
- Laptop
- Miscellaneous cards not fitting in my wallet
- Music CDs
- Pont-and-shoot camera
- Rechargeable batteries
- USB drive
- Wireless mouse
- For delivery:
- Art supplies
- Empty CD cases
- Old clunker laptop
- Special license plate
The Vehicle

This is the ship (or lifeboat, really) that will take me East and then West across the terrainal sea of the United States of America. The truck started the trip with about 123,700 miles, and has just received a lot of maintenance, some of it precautionary.
Route Rough Draft
The Departure