Ed and Sam's 11,455-Mile Adventure in a 1970 VW Bus

Welcome to Ed and Sam's great adventure

In July 1996, Ed and Sam set off from Austin, Texas, in a 1970 Volkswagen bus for an 11,455-mile journey across northwestern North America. This site collects their trip reports with embedded thumbnail links to full-size JPEGs, plus a client-side image map showing the route. The author hopes readers enjoy the reports as much as he enjoyed making them.

I hope you enjoy these reports half as much as I enjoyed making them.

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