We started the season off by enjoying Bossy's Excellent Panic Attack, oops, we mean "Bossy's Excellent Road Trip,"
a five-week journey across the United States in Saturn vehicles that
helped this funny lady meet a nationwide collection of blogging
friends. Even though it has been weeks since she embarked on her
journey, we still laugh out loud when we read about Bossy's mishaps oops, we mean fun.
We also enjoyed the adventures of five moms who went on the road from Washington, D.C. in a Chevy Tahoe Hybrid SUV to drive to the 2008 BlogHer convention
in San Francisco. These hilarious and irreverent women were equipped
with wireless internet access in the vehicle, a GPS system,
cutting-edge cameras and video recording technology, video games,
music, gasoline, hotel stays, and food. Mainstream media -- including
Katie Couric -- covered the road trip on the internet and television as
they drove coast to coast, picking up their fellow SV Moms Group
Contributors along the way.
Well AskPatty just heard about another fun female road trip, this one with a green theme!
Mary Logan Barmeyer -- National Geographic Green Guide research
specialist -- and her cousin, Trish Harris, took off from Atlanta on
July 20 and have been driving across the country while trying to keep
their eco-footprint as small as possible by crashing at friends'
houses, hypermiling, and spending just $25 a day.
The adventuresome duo was in AskPatty's neck of the woods last week, when they passed through Los Angeles. They were supposed to meet with local blogger GreenLAGirl, but unfortunately the time they were available conflicted with a Green L.A. panel GreenLAGirl was attending.
Mary and Trish have been chronicling their adventures in low-consumption, low-budget travel at Two Green Girls on the Road and are posting their progress using GeoMaps,
so you can check out their route, and read all the fun details of their
adventures, complete with photos of their eco-friendly field trips
along the way. The girls have packed their trip full of adventures!
They learned about biodiesel at Willie and Carl's biodiesel truck stop
near Austin, Texas; visited earthship sustainable housing in Taos, New
Mexico; went shopping at "The Most Energy-Efficient Wal-Mart in the
U.S." in Las Vegas, Nevada; camped at Lake Mead and visited Hoover Dam;
stopped by Gehry's Disney Hall in Los Angeles and dipped their toes in
the Pacific Ocean at Santa Monica Beach; learned about biodiesel engine
conversions in Lovecraft; stopped by Google's green headquarters near
San Francisco; and bought music at Amoeba records in Berkeley. After
spending nearly two weeks on the road, the girls are finally passing
through the San Francisco Bay Area and Lake Tahoe -- and are on their
way back home. Whew!
Now that gas prices have slowly begun to
drop back down from the drastic increases we saw at the beginning of
summer, are you planning any last-minute summer road trips?
Photo courtesy of National Geographic
Jody DeVere
President
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