On March 14, 2015, Embry and I set off for an around-the-world trip without flying. On July 12—almost four months later—we set foot in our home town, Washington, DC. What follows are the blogs we posted during this time.
Enjoy!
The Howell’s Big Trip
- Around-the-World in 120 Days — Washington DC
- Trip Planning — Washington, DC
- Big Trip Day 1-2 — Approaching the Georgia/Florida border
- Day 3 — At Sea
- Day 4 — At Sea
- Day 5 — At Sea
- Day 7 — At Sea
- Day 12 — At Sea
- Day 17 (Embry) — Valencia
- Day 17 (Joe) — Valencia
- Day 19 — Valencia
- Day 22 — Valencia
- Day 24 (Embry) — Valencia
- Day 25 — Valencia
- Day 28 — Valencia
- Day 31 — Valencia
- Day 32 — En Route to Madrid
- Day 35 — En Route to Paris
- Day 36 — Paris
- Day 38 — Paris
- Day 42 — En route to Quimper, Brittany
- Day 45 — Quimper, Brittany
- Day 47 (Embry) — En route from Brittany to Paris
- Day 48 — Paris
- Day 50 — En route from Paris to Berlin
- Day 51 Emergency — Berlin
- Day 51 Theft — Berlin
- Day 52 — Berlin
- Day 56 Border Crossing — Belarus
- Day 57 Auschwitz — Warsaw
- Day 57 Warsaw — En route to Moscow from Warsaw
- Day 58 Moscow — Moscow
- Day 58 Mid Trip Reflections (Embry) — Moscow
- Day 58 Victory Day in Moscow — Moscow
- Day 58 Moscow Puzzle — Moscow
- Day 60 — Siberia
- Day 61 (Embry) — Siberia
- Day 62 Reflections — Irkutsk
- Day 63 — En route to Mongolia
- Day 64 — En route in Mongolia
- Day 66 — Mongolia
- Day 66 (Embry) — Ulan Bator
- Day 69 — Beijing
- Day 71 (Embry) — Beijing
- Day 73 — Beijing
- Day 75 — En Route to Taiyuan/Pingyao
- Day 75 (Embry) — Pingyao
- Day 76 — Pingtao
- Day 80 — X’ian
- Day 81 (Embry) — Chengdu
- Day 82 — Chengdu
- Day 85 — On the Yangtze
- Day 87 — En route to He Fei Nan via high speed train
- Day 88 — Haungshan
- Day 89 (Embry) — Shanghai
- Day 92 (Embry) — Shanghai
- Day 93 — Shanghai
- Day 94 — Shanghai
- Day 95 (Embry) — Shanghai
- Howell Big Trip across the Pacific (Andrew)
- Day 97-111: The Pacific Crossing — The Pacific Crossing
- Homeward Bound — Seattle, Washington to Washington, DC
- Reflections