Days before setting out on this trip I had nary a clue that I’d be driving this country’s longest road. Named after the great railroad which it parallels along  its western portion, the highway actually passes into Canada to connect to its eastern portion. With the Great Lakes in the way it was designed as a two-segment road since its inception in 1926. From end-to-end U.S. Highway 2 is almost 2,600 miles long.

I chose this route home after my first choice along Canada’s Yellowhead Highway fell through. This was my path home after driving up the Pacific Coast Highway with my daughter, Kelsey. Blog posts for this trip are posted below in chronological order starting on the shores of the Pacific and ending among islands on the Atlantic:

1. ★Great Northern over Stevens Pass
   

2. ★World’s Fair Riverside Park
   

3. ★Carnegie Loved Libraries
   

4. ★A Once Every 100-year Flood: Revisited
   

5. ★The Great Expanse of Nothing
   

6. ★Lake Superior Waterfront
   

7. ★Three Bike Rides, Two Countries, One Day
   

8. ★Lovely Plodding through the Northeast
   

9. ★Hidden Roads of Acadia
   

Having reached the eastern extreme of Highway 2 I was done. The next two days were a pretty focused driving down the east coast to Washington D.C. where again I was reunited with my family.

Highway 2 is a long haul but an interesting and varied drive.