Where's Abby (+ Dylan and dogs)

On the road again! Oregon Trail Round 2 from May 16-May 24, 2024 New Orleans was our first stop on this trip. On our first trip out in May 2020, we skipped NOLA as this weirdo new pandemis was wreaking havoc in that little Cajun town. But this time around, we had a great stay at the Creole Garden hotel with the most colorful patio. We had a lovely rainy walk to dinner and an entertaining walk down Bourbon with everyone's intuitions just thrown to the wind. What a place.  San Antonio was next, where it was certainly a pretty little riverwalk and we got some delicious street tacos, but was kind of one of those blooper kinda nights. It was a loong drive, we were starving, we made a rash decision for street tacos and realized we missed out on the tex mex we were so stoked on. No rice. No beans. No chips and salsa... Ugh. We couldn't get over it haha... the dogs got hot and we couldn't find water, our skin was wackily dry and uncomfortable, we thought we'd left our toiletry ...

          It's been a year since our arrival to our new west coast home and here's my first update! I just found a draft from October where I vowed to myself I'd write a monthly update and here we are. And now I have the task of summarizing a whole YEAR. How to cover it all? "Plan some themes for a couple different posts? Organize your thoughts? ... Just start writing and figure it out?" Let's do this. You can click here to read about our roadtrip out here (also 1 year late), and you can check out Dylan's flickr for more pics.  Oregon Arrival          On May 15th, 2020, we saw our first signs for Pacific City. We drove through national forests, by picturesque rivers, on one way bridges, until we spotted the big old ocean rock in the distance (Haystack Rock), and drove up to our little blue house. We were kind of skeptical before arriving about what the town and house would be like-- exploring Google maps before had given...

Neptune Beach, FL --> Gainesville, FL--> Apalachicola, FL --> Dothan, AL --> Natchez, MS --> Austin, TX--> Santa Fe, NM--> Colorado Springs, CO --> Telluride, CO --> Page (?), AZ--> Park City, UT --> Boise, ID --> Pacific City, OR!  Our Oregon Trail             Last May, we spent 18 days traveling across the States during the weirdness of the pandemic to get to our new home on the Oregon coast. Most places were very shut down so we were getting lots of takeout, wondering strangely empty streets, "living the yuppy condo life and ordering Grubhub" at an Airbnb in Texas... Certainly not ideal for our big plans, but it was fantastic nonethess.  We started off with a quick visit in Apalachicola, FL, a town special to my Grandma Jeanne, on the way to visit Pa, Grandma, Dennis and Dede for a few days. Got to take Dylan to their old farm and farmhouse on Coe Road (our family name) that is actually still dirt. ...