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One, Long, Drive… what?  My last name is Long and I have always enjoyed
driving.  Now, my father taught me “Life is 10% what happens, and 90% how you
react.”  So when my job was cut, my reaction was to take “One Long Drive”, a
31,000 mile, six month tour of the US and Canada.

The trip was from June to December of 2015, and I filled this blog with stories
and pictures of the trip as internet and time permitted.  Alas in late November
the database went missing at the host company, and the backups were all
corrupted.  So this is the recreation of about 130 posts, containing about 3,500
images and 110,000 words (mid-length novel) . Check out the Trailer Page, the
interactive map of blog posts, and the more detailed Maps Page too.

I worked at Microsoft for about 20 years, but one day I got some rather abrupt
news that my job had been cut.  Yes for the first hour I was a little shaken,
but no worries.  It was easier to say this primarily because as soon as I let
the word out my inbox filled up.  Filled up with lots of kind words, some shock
and worry, but also with offers to look at new jobs.

There was also a severance package.  Even so, going back before about six months
would have meant giving back some of it.  As I thought about it, I decided that
my reaction could optimize for time, for money or for adventure.  Optimizing for
time meant staying home, extending how long I could stay away from work, playing
it safe.  The pitfall was that I might just waste that time.  Optimizing for
money meant taking a new job away from Microsoft and effectively getting paid
double for those six months.  But the thought kept passing through my head “when
do you get time, money and health at the same time?”  So I chose to optimize for
adventure and never looked back.

Adventure sounded like Alaska, the only state you can drive to where I hadn’t
set foot.  Granted I did most of my traveling in the back of the family station
wagon following along in the Rand-McNally atlas.  But I had read a lot of Jack
London stories about Alaska, and I used to imagine I was in those stories when I
was hiking in the Cascades as a youth one weekend a month in Boy Scouts.  So
Alaska was first on the list.

I hadn’t been planning to go on a trip, so I hadn’t done any research, and time
was wasting, so mostly I was planning a few days in advance.  There were a few
keystones here and there, but mostly not so much.  I hadn’t been as far south as
Key West in Florida, so it that was on list, but as I looked at the timing I
realized that I should wait for hurricanes to blow over, and see some fall
colors up in Maine.  Fall colors were late this year and I arrived early, and I
decided Maine wasn’t far enough east.  So I decided to go “all the way” east to
Cape Spear in Newfoundland Canada.  So, that’s how it becomes just One Long
Drive.

I am a software guy, and I can easily spend a couple of weeks without talking to
anyone and not really notice.  That said, I love to tell a story.  If you’ve met
me you know, I get sort of excited about telling a story.  But If I had made any
other choice in vehicles, I may never have spoken to anyone for the entire six
months.  The trailer was different, and the way it matched the Jeep made it all
the more attractive.  Comments from “Oh, it is so cute” to “Dude, tell me about
the solar panels”.  I gave out about 400 business cards for this blog while I
was out.  Now you can get the whole story, and see it through the lens of my
camera.

I’ve been getting wonderful feedback about the site.  Thanks for all the
encouragement to keep this up!  I am happy that so many folks are enjoying it.

-Frank Long



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