Figure 1: trip route

Basic Stats:
Miles driven: 7,008 (see Fig. 1)
Duration: 30 days (May 17 to June 16)
Percent of United States visited: 23 (see Fig. 2)
Day on which we finally snapped: June 14 in Utah. Got interrogated by the hotel desk clerk for not taking my husband’s name. Due to various whatnottery (time change, strange google directions), ended up being an hour late to "breakfast" with Scott and Shelley, who remained gracious in spite of it all. The lovely conversation that followed was one of the trip highlights. And then we took a wrong turn in spite of the fact that we were following them, and etc etc. It became clear it was Time To Go Home.

Figure 2: 23 % of country visited

Geographical Stats
Mountain ranges crossed: Badlands, Rockies, Cascades, Coastal Range, Sierras
Deserts toyed with: Great Basin, Mojave
Highest elevation attained: 8,000ish feet
Times the Continental Divide was crossed: twice
Temperature range experienced: 29 (-1.6 C) in Montana, 101 (38.3 C) in Nevada
Forests containing Very Tall Trees visited: 3 (Redwood National Forest, Sequoia, one more)
State with the Most Chakra-Cleansing and Crystal Billboards: Oregon
State with the Most Palm-Reading and Tarot Billboards: California

Flora and Fauna
Flora my Southern Self had not heretofore examined: sagebrush, tumbleweeds, Joshua trees, California poppies, wild seaweed forests (as opposed to the tame seaweed forests in the Monterey Aquarium)
Fauna that was also new to me: elephant seals, kit foxes (in downtown Bakersfield), tule elk

Food Stats
Times I ate tongue: 2. (Pickled tongue at Wool Growers, tacos lengua at Lino’s Tacos [see fig. 3])
Items consumed for first time: tacos de pescado, Basque oxtail stew, panna cotta, fried lemon slices
Did I actually eat so much super-fresh sushi that I am off sushi for an unspecified time? Shockingly, yes.
Unsuspected restaurant gems: Tarpy's in Monterey (for God’s sake, don’t eat at the pier) and The Oaks in Ogden, UT (thanks to Scott).

Figure 3: Tacos machaca and lengua. (photo by Mister Husband)

This all seems like a rather inadequate description. It was a long trip time wise and mile-wise, but it was also an intense experience in a lot of ways — seeing things, meeting people, and undergoing an internal sea change. (Desert change? You know what I mean.) Also, one of the awesome things that's come out of this rather perplexing year is finding out that it doesn’t really matter so much if Mister Husband and I are in separate states for 30 days or in a rolling box together for 30 days. Obviously we prefer the latter, but either way we still like each other quite a lot.