Hello,

The trip has been exciting so far. I have seen a bunch of things along the way. I have driven 5,028 miles through 13 states finally making it to my destination in San Diego, California. I will be staying until Monday 11/16/2015 and heading back to New Jersey. I am currently plotting my journey with a different route.  The challenge to drive across the country only using fares earned by ride sharing had a few obstacles. Some of states didn’t allow ride sharing, and some didn’t let me logon to my app. I could have done better research to find hot spots to drive/ spots not allowing driving. So far I have spent an estimated $264.34 of my original $500 funding ( click here for more details). Places I have visited over the week:

New Orleans: cool area, with some good food. Bourbon street had fun live music and street performers.

Austin Texas: There was a fun fun fun concert going on during my stay and the city was packed. I definitely want to go back for more then one day.

Grand Canyons: The grand canyons were amazing. I saw a bunch of  birds and different animals on my hike.

Sedona, Arizona: The roads driving down these canyons were awesome. The deep red color of these rocks were incredible. I enjoyed a nice view in the town with a coffee before catching the sunset and heading to California.

Cheers,

Edward

Hello,

I had originally planned to drive for Uber in every city earning enough money to get me to my next destination/city. I started in Belmar earning $188.63 on Halloween and drove straight to a rest stop near the Appalachian Mountains, PA. The next morning, I drove to Pittsburgh, PA and arrived around 10:30a.m.  I turned my Uber app on it gave me a notification that I could not drive there. (I could have done more research other than reading the contract). I thought of quick solutions to my ultimate challenge.  I had Lyft, a similar app to Uber, on my phone but never actually drove for them before. I logged in and saw that it worked so I drove the day to earned $120. My original impression of Pittsburgh wasn’t great and I wanted to leave early into my arrival. After driving around the city and checking out the major sites to see, it turned out to be a great city. The architecture was amazing, and I loved driving up and down the crazy vertical roads and bridges. There was also a Pittsburgh Stealers game at 1:00pm which I gave a couple a ride to. The energy from the fans and the stadium was awesome. I also checked out Mount Washington lookout which had unreal views of the entire city and bridges. After earning an adequate amount of fares I drove to West Virginia and stayed in a hotel to get some rest. I checked to see if my Lyft account was working in West Virginia this morning and noticed it also gave me a similar error which confused me why I could drive in PA but not WV.  I emailed both companies to see if they can temporarily let me drive in Nashville, TN upon my arrival. Today I checked out the New River Gorge Bridge in WV which I drove over last night and could hardly see 5 feet ahead of me with the fog. The views were awesome and they had nice relaxing spots to just sit down and enjoy life. I am currently off to Highlands, NC to visit a waterfall in the morning and Nashville, TN after that. I will start planning on how to keep this challenge to break even on a road trip to Cali on my next drive. A buddy recommended I make Pizza’s in California, so I might be walking into pizzerias on my way looking for day to day work?

Cheers,

Edward