Project: America

What better way to start my travel blog than to post about a trip I would like to make - one I call Project: America.  Inspired by Stephen Fry's trek across America, I want to traverse the continent in a car.  Not necessarily all 50 states in one trip; that would bankrupt me!  But I would like to make one trip across, from East Coast to West, going through the land with a suitcase in the boot and a well marked map on the passenger seat.  Will it be a single trip?  Probably, unless I could find someone interesting and mad enough to make the trip with me.

So far, I only have a handful of definite destinations in mind, inspired in part by Mr Fry himself.

• Maine - All his talk about the lobster and seafood is enough to make me decide this as my first port of call.
• Vermont - Home of the Ben and Jerry's factory?  Hell yes I'm going!
• Florida - I want to go to Disneyworld again!
• North Carolina/ South Carolina - My Dad lived here for a while, so I thought I should swing by and see what the fuss was about.

This is an ongoing project for me - it'll take a couple of years for me to save anywhere near enough money to afford such a trek.  I do hope to do it before I'm 30 though, so that gives me about 4 years.  Best get planning and saving!