One family's 27,000-mile road trip

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News, Daily News, Society & Culture, The Times, California

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🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The Bledsoe family of San Diego has been on the road for nearly a year. We hear some of their stories, and what they've learned

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0:00.0	Yeah, gas is higher than ever before, but that's not stopping people from going on vacation or at least wanting to.
0:08.4	Like never before, but you want road trip goals?
0:11.9	Try 44 states, more than 20 national parks, more than 27,000 miles, all in the past year.
0:18.5	Hi, from Michigan.
0:20.7	We're Michigan. All right. We're in Santa Cruz right now Hi, from Michigan. We're in Michigan.
0:21.6	All right, we're in Santa Cruz right now.
0:22.6	Greetings from Kentucky.
0:24.6	We're in Kentucky and we're glamping tonight.
0:27.6	You get to glamp in this beautiful tent next to us, tassel.
0:30.6	And there's the horses over here.
0:33.6	That's the Blood Soe family, and nearly a year ago they got into an SUV and began to drive.
0:43.3	I'm Gustavo Ariano. You're listening to The Times, Daily News from the LA Times.
0:50.3	It's Thursday, March 10, 2022.
0:53.3	Today, we take you on an epic road trip across the United States
0:58.0	with a family that's collecting stories instead of schlucky souvenirs.
1:06.0	So in every state we go to, we want to learn a little bit more about what that state is known for.
1:18.6	In Maine, it's lobsters.
1:21.6	Greetings from Portland, Maine.
1:23.6	Our kids got their hands dirty today. Learning about something that is just so quintessentially main, and that is the lobster industry, it is fascinating. In Vermont, it's maple syrup. What is this? Maple syrup. Maple syrup. Vermont makes about half of the country's maple syrup. Business is booming right now, and nobody knows that better than the family we talk to, because they've been doing it for more than a century. If you're in Florida, you want to see a manatee. Greetings from Blue Spring State Park in Florida. This is the winter home for hundreds of manatees. And it's an animal that's in crisis right now in case you haven't heard. What's going on with the manatees? They don't have enough Yeah, they don't have enough food. Yeah, they don't have enough food. So we met some people today who were trying to be part of the solution.
2:01.6	Greg Bledsoe is a former morning news anchor for NBC 7 in San Diego, and that sound you heard
2:09.6	is from his ongoing cross-country road trip with his family of four.
2:13.6	Greg, welcome to the Times.
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