Did my last dinner at La Taqueria last night. Very bittersweet. I hit the road first thing tomorrow morning, and hopefully will be posting pictures from the Grand Canyon in the next couple of days...
Adios!
Saturday, February 6, 2010
New Route Thanks To A Comment
From reading a comment by KJE, I decided to re-work my route. This way I'll get to head through a lot more scenic places, see the Grand Canyon, and stop overnight in Dallas.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
A Tough Place To Leave
Looked at the weather across the South and East Coast. Lots of snow and cold. I took these pictures yesterday and last night at Dolores Park and Ocean Beach...
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
The Initial Plan
This is my approximate route of travel based on what I want to do over the month of February. Its a constantly changing list of stops, but taking the southern route is going to let me see a lot more people I know and do a lot more things during the month. Its around 4000 miles in total excluding any side trips or diversions which are inevitable. The leg from Phoenix to somewhere in the middle of TX is going to be a rough one, I'm thinking of driving 12 hours and just stopping at the first motel I see beyond that. I'll have to do some research, if anyone has advice on that leg, let me know.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Packing Up
I'm tying up loose ends trying to make this destroyed apartment...
Fit into this car...
So far I'm going to have to take the roof off and put it back on to fix the rattling, make sure all of the locks work beyond a reasonable doubt, try to lay out suitcases to be able to cram as much stuff as possible in there, and sell enough stuff to remain cash neutral in the process.
Anybody want an old wooden trunk?
Sunday, January 31, 2010
A New Start
January 31, 2010
My name is Jeff Hall, and I love to travel.
For the past two years I've been in San Francisco California, working for a wealth management company on a mountain in Woodside. I've been living in the Mission District which is right in the middle of the city, and making the hour and a half commute every day. In the two years that I've been here I've learned a tremendous amount about finance and a lot about life in general. Excluding summer internships, I had never been in an office for 10+ hours a day every day, and I had never taken on the level of responsibility this job required. I had never lived in a city like San Francisco before and never had to deal with a commute. While living on my own was familiar, doing it in a city on the other side of the country where I had no roots was strange.
I put in my time, saved some money, and am now taking over a year off to pursue law school, and my dream of traveling extensively. Before I moved to California, I did some traveling in Oaxaca Mexico, and in the past year have been to Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, and a little sliver of Brazil. My goal for the next year is to do well on the LSAT, apply and get accepted to a good law school, and then travel across at least two continents and see at least a dozen countries. The plan is going to involve a couple of parts.
1. A road trip between San Francisco and Manchester Vermont which will begin later this week, and take the entire month of February. The trip will go through the South East and include New Orleans, Oxford MS, Memphis, Atlanta, Charlottesville, DC, and NYC.
2. Three months of LSAT study including 12 hours in class a week, plenty of skiing, and slogging through the long process of submitting applications.
3. A move someplace in the developing world to travel for a while, then buckle down with a volunteer assignment for a couple of months, most likely in Eastern Europe.
4. Come home for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
5. Trave until August 2011.
6. Begin law school.
Overall I've loved living out here and am going to miss it terribly. SF is a really weird place with an endless amount of things to do. The food, music scene, bars, neighborhoods, and the people are all great, and the surrounding areas (Berkeley, San Rafael, Marin, Pacifica, Point Reyes, Tahoe, Santa Cruz) are all a blast as well. I'm spending the rest of the day packing, going on a date, then buckling down for a week of organizing and cramming as much stuff as I can into the back of a Jeep Wrangler and driving to Mardi Gras.
Stay tuned, I'll be updating frequently.
- Jeff
My name is Jeff Hall, and I love to travel.
For the past two years I've been in San Francisco California, working for a wealth management company on a mountain in Woodside. I've been living in the Mission District which is right in the middle of the city, and making the hour and a half commute every day. In the two years that I've been here I've learned a tremendous amount about finance and a lot about life in general. Excluding summer internships, I had never been in an office for 10+ hours a day every day, and I had never taken on the level of responsibility this job required. I had never lived in a city like San Francisco before and never had to deal with a commute. While living on my own was familiar, doing it in a city on the other side of the country where I had no roots was strange.
I put in my time, saved some money, and am now taking over a year off to pursue law school, and my dream of traveling extensively. Before I moved to California, I did some traveling in Oaxaca Mexico, and in the past year have been to Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, and a little sliver of Brazil. My goal for the next year is to do well on the LSAT, apply and get accepted to a good law school, and then travel across at least two continents and see at least a dozen countries. The plan is going to involve a couple of parts.1. A road trip between San Francisco and Manchester Vermont which will begin later this week, and take the entire month of February. The trip will go through the South East and include New Orleans, Oxford MS, Memphis, Atlanta, Charlottesville, DC, and NYC.
2. Three months of LSAT study including 12 hours in class a week, plenty of skiing, and slogging through the long process of submitting applications.
3. A move someplace in the developing world to travel for a while, then buckle down with a volunteer assignment for a couple of months, most likely in Eastern Europe.
4. Come home for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
5. Trave until August 2011.
6. Begin law school.
Overall I've loved living out here and am going to miss it terribly. SF is a really weird place with an endless amount of things to do. The food, music scene, bars, neighborhoods, and the people are all great, and the surrounding areas (Berkeley, San Rafael, Marin, Pacifica, Point Reyes, Tahoe, Santa Cruz) are all a blast as well. I'm spending the rest of the day packing, going on a date, then buckling down for a week of organizing and cramming as much stuff as I can into the back of a Jeep Wrangler and driving to Mardi Gras.
Stay tuned, I'll be updating frequently.
- Jeff
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