Well, as some of you know, I had a killer road trip. So now since everything is near ready, I am releasing the info.

So, since the day I picked up my lovely MINI. Almost instantly a roadtrip came to mind. Thoughts cruising through my head on "where to go". Eventually, I thought that cruising through the south western States would be a wicked cruise.

So, I told my boss, and he was very unhappy with me (me being the foreman and all) and said "yup two weeks". I had a friend that was moving to Vancouver from Ottawa and she said that she would love to come and split the expenses. Well, that's all fine by me. But I had to drop her off in Vancouver, whatever, doesn't matter to me too much.

Finally the day came and we left. August 13th/Monday @noon. To quickly some up the part I love telling people.

August 13th, we went to Montana, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, arriving in Calgary August 22nd @8pm. I HAD to get back for the MINI RUN!
Kilometers in total............................................. ..7386KMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!

Oooohhh baby! My less than 4 month old MINI had over 16200kms on her!

Now many people think that I just drove my *** off. NOPE, every single day, we stopped for an attraction and some amazing sights!

Montana - Glacier National Park
Idaho - Craters of the Moon National Monument
Utah - Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument
Arizona - Grand Canyon National Park
Nevada - Las Vegas (what else?)
California - Calico ghost town, Santa Monica (oh I miss that place), HWY #1 , San Francisco, Redwood Park
Oregon - Oregon Dunes National Rec. Center, HWY #101
Washington - Mount St. Helen's National Volcanic Monument

So with that being said, I took over 1000 photos and 6 movies. It took me a good time to post the photos, and even longer labeling some of them, the labeling is what I am still doing now!

I have no complaints on my trip, it was an amazing experience and so much fun and beautiful things to see and do.

I have put all the photos into State folders. Enjoy.

Scott.

p.s. I forgot to mention, I only saw 4 MINI's until I drove into Santa Monica on Sunday August 19th!! Then once in Santa Monica, I lost count!

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Wow man I love the pics , thats just awesome. Thats something I really want to do one day. Lots of driving though.

 

Checked out my backyard. Sorry we didn't have clear blue skies for you, but the Canyon with rain is sort of unusual. I always love driving 89 across the Rez (Navajo Reservation), except for getting tickets (never fails).

 

That is really cool. People just don't do enough of this kind of thing.

 

An Epic road trip. Memories are the only things in life that are truly your own. Now you got some good ones.
Thanks for the post & pictures.

 

wow such a great time! thank you for the pictures.