Hi everyone and thanks for coming to our site!
To your right you will find some handy links as you plan for your trip to Jamaica, Vermont. They include directions, details, lodging info and much more. Go ahead and click on one!
Please check back as we will be updating the site with additional information in the coming months.
We are both looking forward to seeing you this summer. If you have any questions, please let us know.
Love Eddie and Lisa
We are all moved in! A few bits of news:
1. Eddie has a new job working for a rich media agency. Check out www.eveo.com.
2. Mike Young (and Rob!) are coming to visit. We will have a great time and Mike has a camera so we will have some new pictures soon.
3. We are having a great time and hope to see you soon!
Lisa.
Well, we all knew it was bound to happen. My previous record for owning a camera without theft, loss or pudding accident had been 13 months, just one month ago we celebrated our 16 month birthday with the camera when after one fun visit to the city we found it missing. Gone. Aufwieterzeign.
Hence no new pictures recently. Lisa and I have been to more amazing places: Sutro Baths, the Alpine Inn, all over downtown and down through Big Sur. But alas no pictures.
We also have decided that we are going to also do some reviews of places we have been such as restaurants etc, for our friends in the area and other people coming to town. If you know of a place we should check out let me know!
Finally, you will notice the blog has a new look. We did it for fun.
Oh yes, one more thing:
We have an apartment! Soon, I will have another camera and we will be able to send you some pictures, but for the time being, we have a big studio right next to city hall. It has secure parking, a pool and work out area and overall we are really liking it!
Talk to you soon,
E
So here are the majority of the pictures:
http://picasaweb.google.com/eddie.aten/OurTripPartIII
http://picasaweb.google.com/eddie.aten/OurTripPartIV
http://picasaweb.google.com/eddie.aten/OurTripPartV
http://picasaweb.google.com/eddie.aten/OurTripPartVI
We are currently headed downtown and will most likely have some more pics after today.
Love TeamEddieLisa.
Well, we actually made it about 6 hours ago, but couldn’t update until now. We are settled into our temporary home, have found cheap wine and great thai food and are looking forward to not spending any time in the car tomorrow.
We are experiencing technical difficulties uploading the pics, but we should have them up tomorrow (hopefully). We will have one (or potentially 2) more posts, so stay posted.
We are tired and are going to bed!
Love TeamEddieLisa.
Since we last left you, we have done some pretty awesome stuff. First, we drove through the Nevada Desert. It was a really weird day, even the lady at the gas station commented how it was unusual (although the town was pretty freakin’ weird, so who knows what she considers unusual). The desert seemed blue and purple, as apposed to brown and grey.
We decided to drive through Death Valley and it was almost dusk by the time we got there. Eddie was very impressed because he got to drive in neutral for 14 miles In a matter of 12 miles, we dropped around 5000 ft to below sea level). Lisa was very impressed because it was beautiful and unlike anything they’d seen up to that point. It was also amazing because it was 110 F at 9 at night.
After the initial drop, we went up to 4000 ft, then down to almost to sea level again and then back up to 4000 ft. Then we had a very very long dark and windy road into Lone Pine, CA.
We stayed the night at the Budget Inn (which surprisingly wasn’t really budgetish at all, as it was pretty nice). The next morning, we got up and looked outside and realized that we were in perhaps one of the most beautiful places we’d seen yet. We were right beside Mount Whitney, which is the tallest point in CA (over 14,000 ft). We decided to stay in Lone Pine for the day and try to find a place to camp.
We drove up Mount Whitney and found a kickass campsite. It was just over 8000 ft up Mt. Whitney, had amazing views of the valley and the mountain and allowed us to have a campfire (which was great because of all the fires in the west, not many places were allowing fires).
We decided to go for a hike up Mt. Whitney to Lone Pine Lake. Even though Eddie and I thought we were in shape, we quickly found out that sitting in a car for nearly a week and a half does not help with ones’ ability to do physical exercise. The climb was about 6 miles and over 1500 vertical feet. But it was totally worth it, because Lone Pine Lake was the most amazing place we’d seen yet.
Following our hike, we ate some hot dogs (Lisa had 2, Eddie had 6), drank some water (aka Bud Light) and sat around the fire. The stars were totally amazing.
So now we are about an hour outside of Berkeley (our soon to be new home).
Today we also got to see some amazing sites. We drove through the Sierra Nevada, Yosemite Park and a very windy mountain side that Eddie absolutely loved driving down.
We have a lot of great pictures and will be giving you the link for them tonight, when we are relaxing in our temporary home.
Tomorrow, we plan to do a lot of walking and do not plan to drive anywhere any time soon.
Love TeamEddieLisa.
After a great night’s stay in Kanab, we set off for the Grand Canyon. It was more amazing than either one of us thought it would be (which appears to be the general theme of the trip). We have some great pictures and will post them in an online album when we have a real internet connection.
On our way from the Grand Canyon to Vegas (which is where we are currently heading), we decided to stop for lunch. As we were hungry, we stopped at the first town on the map, which happened to be Colorado City, Arizona. We pull into town and immediately notice something a little weird about the town, but can’t quite put our finger on it. After drive by the only restaurant in the town, we decide that we can wait till Hurricane UT. But, we decided to grab a snack at the gas station. When we got out of the car, people began to stare. We walked up to the door of the gas station and there was a sign posted “No tank tops allowed. We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.”
So we go into the store and got some very very very dirty looks (as I (Lisa) was wearing a mini-skirt and tube top), so we got some chex mix and got the hell out of dodge.
After a little research, it was determined that we were in a FLDS town, check out these links if you want more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_City,_Arizona, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalist_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter_Day_Saints
We are currently driving through the desert, about 20 miles outside of Vegas (and loving that we have cell phone reception again). We have decided that we are gonna finish up our road trip tomorrow and should be arriving in Berkeley tomorrow evening.
A couple of side notes:
1. If you are in Utah, try the Polygamy Porter, it’s pretty decent
2. It’s currently 112 F
3. If you are in Vegas, listen to 101.9
Trip Statistics:
Total Trip Distance: 4,800 miles
Number of Times we smelled cows but later it turned out it was Eddie: 2
Amount of trash on the road outside of Las Vegas: 8 million lbs (as Eddie put it - “It looks like a plastic bag truck exploded”)
Number of showers we’ve taken in the past 4 days: 1
Most expensive price paid for gas: $3.49
Number of rocket planes we’ve seen: 1
Love TeamEddieLisa.
Here are lots of pictures. We will add the rest from yesterday when we have a sec. We are hitting the road now.
http://picasaweb.google.com/eddie.aten/OurTripOutWestPartII
Love TeamEddieLisa.
So we finally have internet in our hotel room at the Bon-Bon Inn in Kanob, Utah. Which by the way, is by far the nicest hotel we have stayed in thus far.
We’ve been having a wonderful time. When we first crossed into Utah, we weren’t sure what to expect, as there was absolutely nothing around. But we quickly realized that Utah is insanely beautiful. We headed to Arches National Park (if you ever have the opportunity to drive there, be sure to take Hwy 128 in rather than 191) and the drive was incredible. We camped just outside of Arches National Park, right beside the Colorado River.
We hit 3 national parks today. First, Arches, then Bryce Canyon and finally Zion. At each one we were totally amazed. Actually, the entire time we’ve spent in Utah we’ve been totally amazed. It is one of the strangest places either of us has ever, been, the landscape, the people, the liquor laws. In fact, last night, in order to get a beer, we had to join a private club. So we are now members of the Rio in Maub, Utah.
Sorry, got a little off track. So more about the National Parks. We took a ton of pictures and rather than put them all on here, we will put up a link for that you can view the entire album (including more pictures from Colorado).
Tomorrow, we are headed to the Grand Canyon and then off to Vegas.
Love TeamEddieLisa.
Hi Everyone.
Things are unreal here! Eastern Utah and Western Colorado have been amazing!
We have had very little access to the internet and may lose it again any second.
We have a whole bunch of pictures to share and as soon as we get a minute with the “real” internet (aka not on my phone), we will update you all!
Love,
Eddie and Lisa.