Hi All,

Well… it’s time to go back to our day jobs.

We travelled around 4,000 miles and bought about $700 worth of Gasoline.

Was it worth it? Would we do it again? Absolutely!

Even though the weather and our luck made this one of the least eventful of the times Avi and I have done this, we still did get some adrenaline-filled days and saw some pretty crazy weather that you don’t see very often.

There is also something incredibly unique to a vacation where there is no plan on where you are going to go, and what you are going to do. Most people take their vacation time to sit on a beach somewhere, go to a cabin, or even just lounge around the house. We got to see parts of America that just are not on the tour. I love that. It is really cool to just cruise the plains for a week, even if you aren’t looking for troublesome weather. I highly recommend it if you have the opportunity to just drive somewhere random. It’s fun!

What really made this chase trip different from the others I have been on was the lack of overall days to chase. We sat under sunny skies for most of the week and really only had 3 days out of the 8 to even attempt to track storms. In chases past, we had active weather on almost all days.

Another cool thing was that this was the first year that I have had true internet from the car with my Sprint card. This allowed us to do the dash camera which was a really cool way for someone to see what a “Virtual Chase” could be like. We will certainly have that again when Avi and I go on our next adventure.

So now I’m back in Wisconsin, and Avi is back in Oregon. I am sunburned, and have a lovely 2-week beard. It was a fun time and I’m glad that we could share it with all of you folks this year.

The nice thing about living in Wisconsin is that as you get into late May and into June and July, the tornado zone moves north. So I am certain that I will be out for a quick day trip if there are tornadoes in the forecast on a weekend.

Thanks again for sharing in the adventures!

Andy and Avi

We are now heading back to Madison after spending the night in beautiful St. Louis, Mo. We got to see the Arch and enjoyed our first hot meal in a while. Although, we had to pretend we were Cardinals fans, it was a good ending to our trip.

A half-hour out of St. Louis we had an unexpected automotive crisis forcing us to make a detour through Litchfield, IL looking for a special on tires.

Andy was especially excited to use the emergency reflective triangle.

Continue to watch our blog for a trip recap including, but not limited to, more photos, stories and gas mileage statics.

It’s one of the inevitable calls that I get every time I take a week to go storm chasing.

“Mr Rice, this is Marla from the Wells Fargo Fraud Prevention Hotline, we have noticed some very weird transactions on your credit card.”

“Did you buy gas in St. Louis?” (Yes)

“Did you stay at a hotel in Texarkana?” (Yes)

“Did you buy gas in Waurika, OK?” (Yes)

“Did you buy gas in Roscoe, TX?” (Yes)

I guess it does look very suspicious. I look like a confused criminal, who is on the run, but can’t quite decide whether he wants to go to Mexico or not.

Looks like will be headed out of town in about 20 minutes…. we will be going south through Rockford, IL and then onto St. Louis. MO. Depending on how much traffic there is and how well we make time, we will probably try to get a little farther.

The GPS should start working at some point in the next few hours as Avi is wiring everything up and turning everything on.

Andy