We've picked our route!

After some research and some advice from AAA, we have settled on our route across the country.  This one combines the relative safety (weather-wise) of the more southern routes with the interest-factor of taking a road other than the oft-travelled I-10.  We plan to do the trip in 6 days, driving 8-10 hours per day and we will leave on Wednesday, December 24th.

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We have made hotel reservations to stop over in Troy, Alabama; Little Rock, Arkansas; Amarillo, Texas; Kingman, Arizona; and Sacramento, California. Then we can hopefully make it through the pass into Oregon during daylight hours.

At this point, we do not know where we are going to go in Oregon. Kristen has yet to hear from the job she interviewed for in Salem and that's the only job lead we have at the moment. I've applied for one so far and there are a couple more I will apply for, most of them in Portland.