The Wild Boys Road Trip - The Cross Country Adventures of Two Dads and their Boys

What happens when two 40 some odd year old fathers load three of their boys into an old Chevy Blazer and head out to travel around the United States for seven weeks?

Mark, Patrick, Jackson, Jamie and Paul

Well, we took just such a trip in the summer of 2001 and this Web Site tells the tale through pictures, journals, itineraries and various logs (e.g., wildlife, license plates, bumper stickers, mileage, etc.). Here are the parameters:

	Paul and Jackson set out on June 25th from Cape Cod and drove to Long Island
	The Wild Boys set off heading west from New York on June 26th.
	For three weeks we drove west, hitting Cooperstown, Niagara Falls, Chicago, Minneapolis, the Badlands, Mt. Rushmore, Idaho Falls and arriving in Seattle on July 16th
	We met Carol (Mark's wife), Annie and Maddy (Paul's wife and daughter) in Seattle on July 16th
	We drove down the West Coast over the next two weeks, hitting Seattle, Portland, the Oregon Coast, Mount Saint Helen, the Redwoods, the California Coast, San Francisco, Monterey, San Simeon, Disneyland
	Carol, Annie and Maddy flew home from LA on July 30th
	The Wild Boys turned East and drove to Las Vegas, Kingman, the Grand Canyon, Meteor Crater, the Petrified Forest and onto Albuquerque.
	Paul and Jackson flew home from Albuquerque on August 4th; Gene (Mark's brother) flew into Albuquerque to join the trip.
	The newly constituted Wild Boys drove on to Amarillo, Little Rock, Memphis, Nashville, Shenandoah National Park and into Ocean City, N.J. before reaching Long Island on August 12th.

By the time we reached home in Huntington Bay we had driven 9,775 miles. Let us know what you think or share your thoughts by clicking here.

Latest Updates(02/15/2007 12:32 AM PDT):

	By the time we reached home in Huntington Bay we had traveled 9,775 miles.
	Congrats to Paul who has been named Interim Director at the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School.
	We updated the log of bumper stickers, license plates and the mileage log as of 8/12/01, plus we added a wildlife log.

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Ann, Jackson, Paul, Mark, Patrick, Maddy, Jamie and Carol at Disneyland. (Click the picture to make it larger).