Packed up and ready to go

Thank goodness I didn't sell my climbing gear! My trusty ole #9 stopper saves the day once again!

Just a little down time

Well, everything has been packed up in the U-Haul. Our plan is to leave early Monday morning for State College, PA. Unfortunately, the weather spooked us into waiting a couple of days. Hopefully, things will go smoothly Monday.

New Jersey!

Pennsylvania cows

Maryland

West Virginia

Snow

Virginia

Mountains in TN

Knoxville, TN

Nashville, TN

The Tennessee river

Trolley

Beale street, Memphis - street of blues

The yard

The grave

The house!

The wall

Graceland baby!

We just had to stop.

Graceland: home of elvis

Tennessee

Crossing the Mississippi river

Green trees

Welcome to Arkansas!

Into the Central Timezone

First off, kudos to Hyunjoo for handling the photo blogging you see below. Please keep in mind that the journey isn't really this visually exciting. We're posting mostly the highlights of the journey. Lots of grassland, cows are a distant second, cities/towns distant third. We're having a lot of fun still.

Thanks to the Super 8 Motel, we've got wireless this evening. It'll give me a chance to get caught up with my Electronic Village Online duties.

After over 17,000 ft. of ascent yesterday it was relatively flat-going today. We were able to make over 36 mpg averaged over 570 some miles. The fuel efficiency of the Honda Fit is a huge help. Been dreaming of a fuel-cell car, but that's off in la-la-land realistically. I keep forgetting to take a picture of the Fit loaded-up with all our stuff for my Uncle in Honolulu - sorry Uncle, it'll have to wait until tomorrow.

We got blasted with a shotgun of stones from an 18-wheeler that strayed into the shoulder of the road earlier. I'm going to have to get the chips in the windshield and hood fixed once we get into PA. Oh well, hazards of the trip. At least the roads have been relatively safe.

Thankfully, the weather has been on our side. Dad's suggestion that we stay on US 40 was a good one and it's been smooth sailing (knock on wood). Looks like the east coast has been getting some nasty rain, but I think we'll be west of all that weather as we drive up.

Back to you tomorrow for Day 3.

First traffic jam in Oklahoma City at the Jct of 44

Oklahoma

The leaning tower of water in Texas

OK, I know a lot of the other photos you see during our trip show signs and other objects that are "slanted" due to the way the iPhone takes pictures of high speed scenes, but this tower was really leaning the way it looks in the picture!

The largest cross in the western hemisphere

Texas!

Nothingness for 3 hours

End of Day 1

Well we left Nevada and drove straight through Arizona. Hyunjoo now
understands what I meant by a "whole lot of nothing".
:-)
Actually I thought it was beautiful in its own way.

So we drove about 570 something miles in a little over 8 hours. We
won't have to drive that far tomorrow. I'll be happy to make it to
Oklahoma City or maybe a little further.

Were having a great time so far. We're hoping for a little more
variety tomorrow, but I'll be happy with a safe journey.

To new Mexico

On the border- rocks

To Arizona

From nevada

Hoover dam 2

Hoover dam

Last supper

We just cam back from the KungFu Thai restaurant with family here. It
was our way to say thank you to everyone here for all their
hospitality. So, it's off to the east coast tomorrow at 8 am - bright
and early.

Last minute monkeying around

Nayoung & Ryan

At the petting zoo

Follow Our Road-Trip Eastward

Well, we've finished 95% of the packing. We're keeping our fingers crossed that it'll all fit into our Fit (no pun intended).

The cross-country trip will take about five days. We're headed straight for Princeton and will move our stuff in storage from there.

Keep an eye out for updates from the road. I'll be posting our progress here.

Penn State... Here we come!

After almost six months, I found a job. We waited to find something good and I think we've found it.

I applied for an Instructional Design position with the Continuing and Distance Education programs under Penn State's Outreach division.

I'll be running across different departments working on course design projects and working to improve the use of educational technology at those departments.

I'm extremely excited to say the least. This looks like the kind of work I'm really interested in for this next stage of my career.

I begin working March 1st which means we'll have to make arrangements to leave Las Vegas this weekend. Yikes.

I'd like to thank a lot of folks for helping me out. And I'll be doing that "in-person" in the next few days.

Getting Funky

Lil' dude digs my iPhone playing "Funkytown". And so begins his very
important music appreciation classes.

Pre-Superbowl

How Tom Brady is preparing...
:-)
(Actually this is from 2005)

Typical evening here

I'll probably get in trouble for posting this picture, but it's what
goes on here now that everyone is back home. Funny, I thought Ryan
just ate like an hour ago.