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How can the last post be from the holidays?! As long as we have been talking about this trip, it was always in the back of my mind that it just may not happen. It may changed slightly, but it's still a go!

Here's the original mission statement: "Five Friends. Two Dogs. One RV. The trip of a lifetime from Boston to Portland and back." We quickly realized driving all the way across the country was going to take too far too much time which meant that we wouldn't have time to stop and see anything; it would just be straight driving. Though there can be some fun in doing that, that wasn't the trip we were looking to do. So then we thought we could find a one way rental from San Diego to Portland/Seattle. Finding an available RV proved to be far too difficult. We brainstormed on it and finally came up with starting in San Francisco; heading north up the Pacific Coast Highway; at some point head due West from the Oregon coast to hit the wedding in Bend; beeline it to Yosemite National Park; then finish again in San Francisco.

The new mission statement: "Five Friends. One RV. The trip of a lifetime in the Pacific Northwest." Still a damn fine trip if you ask me.

I feel like I'm vibrating waiting to leave on Friday. There is still so much stuff to do in order to be ready to leave though, not just packing things that I wouldn't normally pack for a wedding trip (a headlamp for example) but also stuff like temporarily shutting off our mail.

So stay tuned. We haven't been updating the blog much. But now that the trip is finally upon us, there will be plenty of updates to highlight our temporary home and all the stops along the way.

Let's roll!!!!