On September 1, 2010, Team DeCorso embarked on a 29,000 mile overland trip around the United States.  We visited

Canada

  • Beaver Creek
  • Whitehorse
  • Liard Hot Springs
  • Buckinghorse
  • Kleskun Hills
  • Grand Prarie
  • Edmonton & North America’s Largest Mall
  • Olds, Alberta

Montana

  • Glacier National Park (Junior Ranger)
  • Driving to the Sun Road
  • Missouri River (Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail)
  • Madison Arm (Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail)
  • Yellowstone National Park (Junior Ranger)
  • Grant Village
  • Newton Creek

Wyoming

  • Cody
  • Gillette
  • Pacticola Reservoir

South Dakota

  • Spearfish, SD hatchery
  • Black Hills
  • Jewel Cave National Park
  • Mount Rushmore National Park
  • Badlands National Park
  • Buffalo Gap National Grasslands
  • Wall Drug
  • Wounded Knee Museum
  • Pine Ridge Reservation

Iowa

  • Millstop, Iowa
  • Elkhart, Iowa

Illinoi

Wrigley Field
  • Chicago

Ohio

  • Port Clinton, OH
  • Marblehead, OH
  • Put-In-Bay (crystal cave tour, winery tour, ferry ride across Lake Erie)
  • Cedar Point
  • Cleveland
  • Cleveland Symphony
  • Cleveland Art Museum

New York

  • Buffalo
  • Niagara Falls – both sides
  • Binghamton, NY
  • New York City
  • Statue of Liberty
  • Ellis Island
  • Jamaica Bay National Park

Washington, DC!

Virginia

  • Warrenton, VA
  • Richmond

North Carolina

  • Outerbanks
  • Wilmington

South Carolina

  • Charleston
  • Beaufort

Florida

  • St. Augustine
  • Castille de San Marcos National Park & Monument
    New York City
  • Tampa
  • Dunedin
  • Salvador Dali Museum
  • Sanibel Island
  • Fort Myers
  • Homestead
  • Big Cypress National Preserve
  • Everglades National Park
  • Everglades  – 2 day, 19 mile overnight float trip
  • Key West
  • Biscayne Bay National Park
  • Miami (rode the light rail, swam at the Venetian, ate in Little Havana)
  • Orange Grove
  • Disney World
  • Ocala National Forest
  • Apalachacola National Forest
  • Gulf Shores National Seashore – Florida

Alabama

  • Mobile
  • Fairhope

Mississippi

  • Gulf Shores National Seashore – Mississippi
  • Gulfport / Biloxi (Hurricane Katrina impact)
  • Wiggins
  • Perkinston
  • New Orleans for Christmas shopping!
  • DeSoto National Forest
  • Jackson
  • Vicksburg National Military Park
  • Natchez National Historic Park

Louisiana

  • Franklin
  • Raceland
  • Westwego
  • New Orleans
  • Jean Lafitte National Historic Park & Preserve
  • New Orleans Museum of Art Sculpture Gardens
  • Barataria Preserve
  • Toured the 9th Ward – impact of hurricane Katrina
  • Louisiana State Capital (tour & observation deck)
  • Louisiana State University (tour)
  • Audubon Park
  • Marksville Prehistoric Indian Site (Indian mounds tour, hike)
  • Tunica-Biloxi Indian Reservation
  • Prairie Acadian Cultural Center
  • Rendezvous Des Cajuns – live on air radio program in Eunice, LA at Liberty Theater
  • Konriko / Conrad Rice Mill Tour
  • Tabasco Tour
  • Shadows on the Teche (plantation home)
  • Lake Charles

Texas

  • Port Allen
  • Galveston (took the ferry, impact of hurricane Ike,)
  • Bishops Palace (one of the top architectural sites in the US)
  • Progressive
  • Texas A&M Tour
  • George H Bush Presidential Library
  • Brenham
  • Blue Bell Ice Cream Factory Tour
  • LaGrange
  • Monument Hill (Black Beans of Death Memorial)
  • Port of Houston boat tour
  • JP Morgan Chase Tower Houston
  • Houston Children’s Museum
  • Houston Aquarium
  • Houston Health Museum
  • Houston tunnels
  • Wells Fargo Sky Lobby Houston
  • Port Lavaca
  • North Padre Island
  • Padre Island National Seashore (Junior Ranger Program, 2 hour birding class, community service project)
  • Brownsville
  • Port Isabel
  • South Padre Island
  • Rio Grande
  • Nuevo Progresso, Mexico
  • Amistad National Recreation Area and Dam
  • Guadalupe Mountains National Park

New Mexico

  • Carlsbad Caverns
  • WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant) where they pump transuranic nuclear wasted into a 2000 ft thick salt bed
  • White Sand Dunes National Monument
  • Artesia (Pecos River diamonds)
  • Las Cruces, NM
  • City of Rocks
  • Rockhound State Park (opals)
  • Roswell, NM
  • International UFO Research Center & Museum
  • Truth of Consequences
  • Chavez Canyon (rockhounding)
  • New Mexico Mineral Museum, Socorro, NM
  • New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology college tour
  • National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, Albuquerque
  • University of New Mexico Campus tour
  • International American Rattlesnake Museum
  • Albuquerque
  • Santa Fe
  • Route 66
  • Los Alamos
  • Bradbury Science Museum, Los Alamos, NM
  • Bandelier National Monument (Junior Ranger)
  • Angel Peak National Monument
  • Farmington
  • Devil’s Canyon
  • Navajo Reservation
  • Ute reservation

Utah

  • Moab
  • Arches National Park

Arizona

  • Monument Valley
  • Navajo National Monument
  • Natural Bridges National Monument
  • Grand Canyon National Park
  • Williams
  • Phoenix
  • Arizona Mineral Museum, Phoenix
  • Tuscon
  • Saguaro National Park
  • Marana
  • Sonoran Desert
  • Organ Pipe National Monument
  • Painted Rock Petroglyph Site

California

  • Imperial Sand Dunes
  • Anza Borrego Desert
  • Blair Valley
  • San Diego
  • Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
  • Los Angeles
  • Hollywood
  • Santa Clarita
  • Magic Mountain
  • Central Valley
  • Barstow
  • Joshua Tree National Park
  • Mojave National Preserve
  • Las Vegas
  • Death Valley
  • Panamint Springs
  • Bakersfield
  • Sequoia National Park
  • Kings Canyon National Park
  • Muir Woods National Monument
  • Yosemite National Park
  • Santa Cruz
  • Felton
  • Pacific Grove
  • Monterey
  • San Francisco
  • Conservatory of Flowers
  • Giants Baseball Game
  • Oakland
  • University of California Berkley
  • Golden Gate National Recreation Area
    Wrigley Field
  • Novato
  • Point Reyes National Seashore
  • Eureka / Arcata
  • Humboldt State University
  • Redwood National Park
  • Crescent City

Oregon

  • Newport
  • Portland, OR
  • Tillamook Cheese Factory Tour
  • Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail
  • Mount Saint Helen’s National Volcanic Monument

Washington

  • Puyallup
  • Seattle
  • Seattle Art Museum
  • University of Washington
  • Bellingham

Canada

Vancouver

Back up the highway

3 Responses

  1. Joni G. McNutt

    Come to Maine!!

  2. Hello Blue Van Family,
    Just saw your blog, it is very impressive by the way. We are also in Colombia traveling with 4 kids and a dog. Would love to meet up-looks like you may be near Medellin. We are heading to El Pinol tomorrow morning.
    My husband saw your van and trailer at the port in Cartagena and I’m pretty sure I saw you all in old town cartagena watching the dancers on the square.
    Hope you are having a great time and we hope to meet along the route!
    Kari Webb
    We have a blog but it’s a little embarrassing compared to yours: familyruckus.com
    Facebook: Family Ruckus

    • Hi! I think we remember you – your daughter was dancing, wasn’t she? We are sort of floating around Colombia, did not expect to love it here so much. We are thinking of spending New Years eve in Popayan — but we are not there yet. Its great to hear from another family (with a dog!) traveling in South America! At least we are noticable so if you see us, flag us down! I am not sure what you all are traveling in, I will check out your blog right now! Glad you contacted us!

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