Ryan McFarland

When Kevin and i were driving across the country this fall i thought that it would be great to buy my next vehicle in Florida and drive up to Alaska with it. I’ve made quite a few cross-country jaunts now. In 1995 i drove from New York to New Mexico in early May with Scott Schaeffer. In the summer of 1996 Naomi and i moved from New York to Alaska. We drove clear to Bellingham, Washington and tried to put our trailer on the ferry. It was over $500 so we decided to just make the rest of the drive with the darn thing.  I probably should have though. We made it back to Missoula, Montana to head north on the Alaska Highway and ended up spending over $500 on upgrades to the trailer. We kept exploding tires on the hot road. The trailer was overloaded for the size of the axle and the leaf springs. We ended up driving clear to Whitehorse and getting on the ferry in Skagway. When we moved from Sitka we drove from Haines to northern California before turning left and landing in Utah for six months. The spring of 1999 we packed up, moved our stuff to Colorado and then continued on to New York for a month or two before driving back to Colorad,picking up some stuff from storage and then driving north to Prince Rupert, BC to board the ferry and take our summer jobs for another whirl.  That summer i got the position in Petersburg so we flew to Denver and made the drive to Seattle with a U-Haul truck and loaded our belongings onto a container van.  This past fall i flew to DC and Kevin and i drove to LA in two weeks — with a long stop in Indianapolis for a conference.  Soon, Cena and i hope to drive up here from Florida after buying a vehicle for her.  Taking a few weeks to take in the sights of course!