Have you ever done an extended road trip? I’m thinking of doing a solo cross-country trip before starting my MBA.

Not sure how things will shake out, but the idea is to do an MBA starting Fall 2024. I've always wanted to travel cross-country and now have the money to do so.

I'm not one who is able to take extended vacations as I feel bad I'm not earning money, and my most recent vacations have all been free on my family's dime. Nice little break from work, but I want to do something that's just me.

Have any of you travelled coast to coast across America? I’d be going East to West coast and take a different way back to see more of the greatest country on earth.

across America?then back

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I drove from Charleston SC to San Diego in HS. Then in spring 2018 drove from Charleston to Colorado to compete in snowboarding boardercross nationals. I drove again to Colorado in late 2018 to go snowboarding with friends. Then drove again to Colorado in 2019 to compete in the Boulder 140.6 Ironman. 

I used to like driving a lot more then than I do now, but there is something about driving long distances and reflecting that can be nice.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

yeah, I did one to Denver from Chi and another from Chi through Niagra Falls to Quebec, Ontario, and Montreal; then, back through NYC. It was fun. Bring a girl if you can. Will make it better. But if not, time to learn a little about a lot or a lot about a little. Your pick.

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"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee

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