Following getting laid off in June of '09, I did my "great unemployed road trip". Starting from SF... Seattle; Pacific City, OR; (up the coast) Astoria, OR; (d

Following getting laid off in June of '09, I did my "great unemployed road trip". Starting from SF... Seattle; Pacific City, OR; (up the coast) Astoria, OR; (down the coast) Bandon, OR; Lassen, CA; Crescent City, CA; Astoria, OR; Pendleton, OR; Mt. Hood (Romana Falls); Forks, WA; Mt. Rainier; Seattle; Banff, AB; Waterton, AB; Glacier NP; Yellowstone NP; Salt Lake City, UT; Vernal, UT; Moab, UT; Denver, CO; Taos, NM; Aspen, CO (car broke - got a new one in Glenwood Springs); Lake City, CO; Steamboat Springs, CO; Devils Tower; Mitchel, SD; and then to family. This lasted from June through October and had two oil changes on the way... and a new car (the old car was repaired and my family took the train out to pick it up and drive it back - just that I wasn't going to sit in Glenwood Springs for a week while the part was ordered). It was just me, my camping equipment (went camping in some locations), and my cameras. No responsibilities, no job, no apartment, no dependents. I'm glad I did it then - I was younger and had the energy / endurance to do long days of driving and/or hiking with a heavy pack. I wouldn't have quite the same freedom now (house and cat) or endurance (I did a too long day returning from the eclipse in '17 that would have been OK a decade earlier).