Hey guy, so I wanted to drive across the USA using unpaved roads, so I did! Here's my story.
My family started an organization 4 years ago, KosherTroops.com.
The Mission Statement can be found here. We send care packages to the troops.
I had my plans to do a cross country dirt road trip using the TransAmTrail this
summer. So rather than just doing the trip for myself we joined the two together and
created "The Road Less Traveled" campaign.
Set up on their website is a section for the trip dubbed "The Road Less Traveled". Sponsorships are
currently in the works and the planned departure date is July 18th. If there is any interest in tagging
along for a day or even more feel free to contact me.
(Please note: all blue words are clicky links)
Updated September 24th, 2012
Off to a great start!
My family started an organization 4 years ago, KosherTroops.com.
The Mission Statement can be found here. We send care packages to the troops.
I had my plans to do a cross country dirt road trip using the TransAmTrail this
summer. So rather than just doing the trip for myself we joined the two together and
created "The Road Less Traveled" campaign.
Set up on their website is a section for the trip dubbed "The Road Less Traveled". Sponsorships are
currently in the works and the planned departure date is July 18th. If there is any interest in tagging
along for a day or even more feel free to contact me.
(Please note: all blue words are clicky links)
Updated September 24th, 2012
Everything that is posted below can be found on "The Road Less Traveled" KosherTroops website.
Please note: These entries and images are laid out in the forum format as they were presented on "The Road Less Traveled" KosherTroops website blog, which followed the trip.
This trip is one of the greatest trips I have been on and is probably one of the most adventurous trips I will have ever gone on. It brought us to some of the most remote places in the U.S. Which without my Xterra and the help from this great online community to make my Xterra what it is today could not have been made possible. This trip truly opened up to me what life around the U.S. is like... clearly very different from the hustle and bustle rat race of New York. This is a trip I would love to hopefully be able to do again someday and I hope many of you can as well. I hope you enjoy my little story!
Please note: These entries and images are laid out in the forum format as they were presented on "The Road Less Traveled" KosherTroops website blog, which followed the trip.
This trip is one of the greatest trips I have been on and is probably one of the most adventurous trips I will have ever gone on. It brought us to some of the most remote places in the U.S. Which without my Xterra and the help from this great online community to make my Xterra what it is today could not have been made possible. This trip truly opened up to me what life around the U.S. is like... clearly very different from the hustle and bustle rat race of New York. This is a trip I would love to hopefully be able to do again someday and I hope many of you can as well. I hope you enjoy my little story!
Off to a great start!
“The Road Less Traveled” trip has finally begun. We met with Mrs. Hooper former principal of Whitewell Middle School and creator of the Paper Clips Project.
“The Children's Holocaust Memorial consists of an authentic German transport car (which arrived in Baltimore on September 9, 2001) surrounded by a small garden.The railcar is filled with 11 million paper clips (6 million for murdered Jews and 5 million for Gypsies, Catholics, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and other groups). The monument was uncovered on the anniversary of the Kristallnacht, November 9, 2001.[2]
Eighteen butterflies sculptured of twisted copper are embedded in concrete around the railcar. Butterflies came from a poem written by a child who lived in Terezin concentration camp in 1942 (I Never Saw Another Butterfly) and the number 18 in Hebrew symbolizes life (in Gematria, 18 is the numerical value of the word חי, pronounced Chai, meaning life). Inside the railcar, besides the paper clips, there are the Schroeders' book and a suitcase filled with letters of apology to Anne Frank by a class of German schoolchildren.
A sculpture designed by an artist from Ooltewah, Tennessee stands next to the car, memorializing the 1.5 million children murdered by the Nazis, incorporating another 11 million paper clips.”
Photo's from Paper Clips Museum
“The Children's Holocaust Memorial consists of an authentic German transport car (which arrived in Baltimore on September 9, 2001) surrounded by a small garden.The railcar is filled with 11 million paper clips (6 million for murdered Jews and 5 million for Gypsies, Catholics, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and other groups). The monument was uncovered on the anniversary of the Kristallnacht, November 9, 2001.[2]
Eighteen butterflies sculptured of twisted copper are embedded in concrete around the railcar. Butterflies came from a poem written by a child who lived in Terezin concentration camp in 1942 (I Never Saw Another Butterfly) and the number 18 in Hebrew symbolizes life (in Gematria, 18 is the numerical value of the word חי, pronounced Chai, meaning life). Inside the railcar, besides the paper clips, there are the Schroeders' book and a suitcase filled with letters of apology to Anne Frank by a class of German schoolchildren.
A sculpture designed by an artist from Ooltewah, Tennessee stands next to the car, memorializing the 1.5 million children murdered by the Nazis, incorporating another 11 million paper clips.”
Photo's from Paper Clips Museum
After meeting with Mrs. Hooper and visiting the amazing Paper Clips Children's Holocaust Museum we headed off to the dirt roads! Covering about roughly 200~ miles we had some amazing views from mountain tops to valleys, and a lot of corn fields.
Images from July 19th, 2012
Images from July 19th, 2012
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