We're now at SeaTac airport waiting for our flight back to the UK. The past few weeks have been an amazing adventure and we have loved every second of it. Most of the cities we have visited have been light years ahead of what we are used to in terms of public transport, public spaces and tourism. Prices were pretty much uniformly reasonable and we never felt unsafe at any time during the entire trip.
If you are interested in statistics, you may like to know that Crossing the States took 25 days and we drove 5,453 miles on the road. We used $910 worth of gas (or petrol) and we wrote 51 blog posts about our travels. We took 3,780 photos and shot 211 videos, of which we posted a small selection here. We ate too many hamburgers!
Dale's top five places were:
1. Seattle
2. Astoria
3. Los Angeles
4. San Francisco
5. Cambridge (MA)
Simon's top five places were:
1. Los Angeles
2. Seattle
3. San Francisco
4. Washington DC
5. Astoria
Loll's top five places were:
1. San Francisco
2. Seattle
3. Los Angeles
4. Memphis
5. Virginia
Sooze's top five places were:
1. Seattle
2. San Francisco
3. Los Angeles
4. Flagstaff
5. Santa Fe
I spent this morning having a wonderful chat over coffee with my friend Dr Jules Bloomenthal, who has been a huge help with research that I have carried out over the past few years. Afterwards, we checked out of our hotel and had a final walk around the Seattle waterfront. It was soon time to get our trusty Ford Explorer back to Hertz - we were sad to see our sundae go!
With a nine hour flight ahead of us and then an eight hour time shift, I'm looking forward to craving steak at 4am and brushing my teeth for bed at 2pm. See you back in the UK and thanks for reading!
Every day's an endless stream
Of cigarettes and magazines.
And each town looks the same to me, the movies and the factories
And every stranger's face I see reminds me that I long to be,
Homeward bound
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