wedding road trip

Why We’re Not Taking the Scenic Route

I recently received a Facebook email from Josh, a friend of mine from back in the day. He commented that our trip “is city-centric (i.e. you’re bypassing some of the most beautiful scenery in the world).”

Josh… and others with this same question… come gather around the virtual campfire. Mama Jaime has a little story for you…

Once upon a time… ok, three years ago… I was fortunate enough to walk across the United States with twelve other people as part of Steps Across America, which  you can still Google stalk, thanks to the Web Archive. This makes me incredibly happy, as I love that people can still find really bad mugshot-like pictures of me on the Internet forever. And ever. And EVER.

During the trip, we saw things like this:

And this…

Now, if Wedding Road Trip was all about seeing our country majesty, sweet land of liberty, we’d be KOA’ing it up from West to East and North to South. Okay, that’s a lie. I do not KOA.  I Holiday! But still… we’d be taking more time to smell the citrus and be spending less time figuring out the fastest route from Grand Rapids, Michigan to Wausau, Wisconsin.

Nope, our voyage is about seeing the people. And seeing the people means spending a lot of time seeing this:

And this:

Turns out, it burns a lot of daylight trying to hit more than 35 cities in a short period of time. Which means that we might have to give up some pretty pictures in favor of some time-saving interstates.

But Josh, I promise that we’ll check out the Maroon Bells when we’re in Aspen.