Dan and Bob's Cross-Country Journey

In order to make our big move from Pennsylvania to California, it was decided that Dan would pack up our car and make the 50-hour drive with all of our belongings.  We thought that it would be too hard to traverse the country with a six-week old, though, so Lua and I bought a plane ticket for the following week.

At first, it seemed like Dan would be making the cross-country journey all by himself.  Then his dad stepped in and offered to help out.  Thus, on September 3rd, the two of them crowded into our loaded Honda Civic to make the 3,000 mile drive in what Bob would call "the trip of a lifetime."

The two of them crossed the country in seven days, stopping at Rocky Mountain National Park, Arches National Park, Las Vegas, and Yosemite, before arriving at our new apartment in Santa Cruz.
Despite the cold (Rocky Mountain National Park), the heat (Arches), the rain (several times), and the smoke (Yosemite), both Dan and his dad had an "awesome" time.  They even managed to stop at Ikea and furnish our apartment before meeting us at the airport.

As a non-participant, my record of the trip lies in the cell-phone selfies and pictures that Dan took along the way:

Reading, PA to Santa Cruz, CA (3,139 miles)

Bob is on the road

Day 1:  Made it to the hotel in Iowa City, Iowa (14 hours)

Day 2:  Made it to Loveland, Colorado (12 hours)

Hiking Deer Mountain in Rocky Mountain National Park

At Alpine Visitor Center in Rocky Mountain National Park

Day 3:  Rocky Mountain National Park

Landscape Arch in Arches National Park

Day 4:  Arches National Park

The iconic Delicate Arch in Arches National Park

Day 5:  The Hoover Dam

A top-down view of the Hoover Dam (700 feet)

The fountains at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, NV

Cloudy skies over Mono Lake in Eastern California

Day 6:  At Tenaya Lake in Yosemite National Park

Standing at the entrance to Yosemite Valley

The view from Glacier Point.  Visibility is limited due to the raging wildfire nearby.
(Hikers were actually evacuated from the top of Half Dome the day before.)

Day 7:  Finally!  In Ikea, shopping for furniture for our new home in Santa Cruz, California