Category: Travel

bookmark_borderAn animated road trip history

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2012-2024

Documenting thirteen years' worth of big road trips is a challenge at any time, but it's all the more so when you're trying to do it long after the fact. If by some chance you happened to visit this site before the 2021 revamp (and you had the appropriate direct links), you would have been able to see travelogs for 2012, 2013, and 2014 on some very simple webpages. These were thrown together while I was actually on the road using a laptop and motel room wifi, and were intended to cover highlights of each trip for people back home. I stopped doing these in 2015 due to the excessive time I was spending going through all the material and putting it together every few days while on the road - during my supposed vacation, I would rather do something else. But when home and not running around North America, collecting all my big road adventures together in detail on the site has been a long time coming.

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bookmark_borderPlaces I have stayed during my travels across North America

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Updated on June 6, 2024

This is a listing of recommended lodgings in various cities across the United States and Canada, based on my own personal experiences. This is most definitely not a listing of every motel or other property I have ever stayed in, and I am also leaving out certain properties that I have stayed in multiple times as they are not necessarily places I would recommend to other travelers (some are borderline dives or in borderline seedy areas, for instance). When booking a place to stay, my main considerations are cost, convenience, cleanliness, and the area the property is in - amenities such as free breakfasts, gyms, laundry facilities, in suite coffee makers, and room service are not priorities of mine. The goal is always to find as inexpensive a room as possible while not ending up in a dive or in an area where I don't want to go outside at night. Continue reading "Places I have stayed during my travels across North America"