While travelling on the road for a month can be a challenge to one’s diet, I found the opposite happened. Frequently travellers turn to fast food restaurants and a quick hamburger between tourist attractions. That is often the only food source alongside an interstate, except for the gas station with hot dogs and Slim Jims. Not the healthiest for 30 days straight.
The second state capitol I visited on my All You Can Jet pass was in Richmond, Virginia. Here are some more photos from my visit.
My original plan had me flying on 38 flights, 47,593 miles, and visiting 12 state capitols. Well, things changed a little bit throughout the month. I skipped Seattle twice, went to Maine instead of Fort Lauderdale, missed out on Las Vegas, and ended up on a bus instead of a plane to Boston.
But that’s what keeps travelling fun and interesting. Waking up in the morning and trying to figure out where you are is quite humorous after a week. Here’s the map of where I went.
Travelling for thirty days constantly on the go takes a lot of energy. For some, pushing through the first week or two of non-stop travel might not be hard, but I can promise that a lack of sleep will catch up with you no matter who you are.
I found quick catnaps at all different times of the day to be helpful in rejuvenating my energy level for the remainder of the day. The day after a redeye flight often saw a catnap, either in the car or in a hotel room.
Sometimes a photo is worth a thousand words. Or a snapshot in time of a good or bad event. Then there are those that you have to stop and look at again. Here are a few photos to ponder over.
Finding the right balance between having enough clean clothes to avoid frequent trips to the laundromat and lugging around a big suitcase for the whole month was an interesting game. It took a little practice but I ended up with two washing machine loads and one small load in the hotel sink for the whole month
Packing pants that can be worn several times with several different shirts helps limit the amount of clothing needed for a month of travel. In my case, blue jeans were generic enough for my travels.
The first state capitol I visited on myJetBlue All You Can Jet pass was in Salem, Oregon. The exterior is made of Vermont marble.
Traveling around the country for thirty days offered a number of different climates to contend with. There were the cloudy days, the drizzly days, the rainy days, the clear days, the extremely hot days, and the freezing windy days.
Flying across time zones all month long and on a couple of redeye flights, I got to see some beautiful sunrises and sunsets, both from the ground and from the air. Here are a few I captured.
