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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Mission Bay, San Diego
21780
2.98
This is our home for the month of Oct - the road trip is now essentially done. :(
We are trying to make a go of San Diego being our new home for the foreseeable future. I anticipate continuing to blog as a great way to maintain a family journal - being said, if you want to stop receiving emails about when I post, no hurt feelings if you stop "following" the blog.
The trip was a wonderful experience, and I something we will certainly never regret. The time together and experiences we had were wonderful to say the least. Missy and I are already thinking about what type of RV we will live in full time to see the rest of the country when the kids are out of the house! :)
Cheers to Toyota, the Sequoia was our first toyota, and we didn't have a single hiccup with the truck for the entire trip - what a relief. The Puma did well too, no major catastrophes either thank goodness.
2.98
This is our home for the month of Oct - the road trip is now essentially done. :(
We are trying to make a go of San Diego being our new home for the foreseeable future. I anticipate continuing to blog as a great way to maintain a family journal - being said, if you want to stop receiving emails about when I post, no hurt feelings if you stop "following" the blog.
The trip was a wonderful experience, and I something we will certainly never regret. The time together and experiences we had were wonderful to say the least. Missy and I are already thinking about what type of RV we will live in full time to see the rest of the country when the kids are out of the house! :)
Cheers to Toyota, the Sequoia was our first toyota, and we didn't have a single hiccup with the truck for the entire trip - what a relief. The Puma did well too, no major catastrophes either thank goodness.
Lakeside - what lake?
21450
Gas: 3.05
We crashed Mikey's driveway for two nights while we searched all of the campgrounds in San Diego for our new home.
Unfortunately I forgot to take pics of the rig along side the house.
Zoe was in heaven running around a house and having Rocky to boss around and play with.
I looked around quite a bit and never did find the lake this town should be on the side of, but, oh well, seems to be working the way it is.
Gas: 3.05
We crashed Mikey's driveway for two nights while we searched all of the campgrounds in San Diego for our new home.
Unfortunately I forgot to take pics of the rig along side the house.
Zoe was in heaven running around a house and having Rocky to boss around and play with.
I looked around quite a bit and never did find the lake this town should be on the side of, but, oh well, seems to be working the way it is.
Da River - Palo Verde
20???
Gas was about 2.50 - I didn't write it down exactly, but I know it was nothing big - but we feel the price climbing with each mile towards CA
We made it all of the way to Palo Verde CA - a small town on the Colorado border separating CA and AZ. Why here you ask? Well good question.
It happens to be the location of a vacation home of a dental school classmates family - and they have full RV hookups along side the house - can't beat that!!
Kes and Mikey Sr catching a snooze as the afternoon sun passes by.
Zoe doing the 'naked dance' in the good'ol Colorado river
These sunglasses were found on the sand bar - ground down so you couldn't see a single thing through them - but like any great model, Zoe still pulled them off without a hitch.
Zoe checking the cooler for more goodies.
Dr Tyler can fix just about anything with an empty beer can and some rusty pliers.
Smiles here - but neither enjoyed the life vests at all!! Zoe was hysterical wearing it until the boat stopped and she didn't have to anymore - then she asked to wear it running around the sand bar!!
These last shots are of Quartzsite - a town in between Phoenix and Palo Verde/Blythe. It has a bunch of gem mines, maybe?? Anyway, as you can see, as we drove through it was near a ghost town - but apparently for Jan-Feb the population explodes into the hundreds of thousands for the largest RV and Gem show and a huge months long flee market too. Strange, you may think, but what the heck else ya gonna do in Jan?? Really, what??
Gas was about 2.50 - I didn't write it down exactly, but I know it was nothing big - but we feel the price climbing with each mile towards CA
We made it all of the way to Palo Verde CA - a small town on the Colorado border separating CA and AZ. Why here you ask? Well good question.
It happens to be the location of a vacation home of a dental school classmates family - and they have full RV hookups along side the house - can't beat that!!
Kes and Mikey Sr catching a snooze as the afternoon sun passes by.
Zoe doing the 'naked dance' in the good'ol Colorado river
These sunglasses were found on the sand bar - ground down so you couldn't see a single thing through them - but like any great model, Zoe still pulled them off without a hitch.
Zoe checking the cooler for more goodies.
Dr Tyler can fix just about anything with an empty beer can and some rusty pliers.
Smiles here - but neither enjoyed the life vests at all!! Zoe was hysterical wearing it until the boat stopped and she didn't have to anymore - then she asked to wear it running around the sand bar!!
These last shots are of Quartzsite - a town in between Phoenix and Palo Verde/Blythe. It has a bunch of gem mines, maybe?? Anyway, as you can see, as we drove through it was near a ghost town - but apparently for Jan-Feb the population explodes into the hundreds of thousands for the largest RV and Gem show and a huge months long flee market too. Strange, you may think, but what the heck else ya gonna do in Jan?? Really, what??
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Sucked into the Vortex
Odometer: I forgot to write it down. :)
Gas: 2.45
We did a day trip from Phoenix and drove to Jerome and Sedona with an early morning stop at AZ state park - slide rock.
Jerome is an old copper mine town about 40 miles outside of Sedona. Now it is filled with artists and bars that attract bikers.
Very pretty drive up the windy mountain road.
Bikers and open beer cans all over the place.
The water was FREEZING, but Zoe and I did get in and slide a little. This place has been known about for years, but only a state park since the early 90s. In fact, I went here on an RV trip with my family in the early 80s when it was just some cool rocks on a farm. Now that I'm older, I realize why none of the adults went in the water back then. Brrrr.
Zoe enjoyed walking around - but all of the rock was so slick I didn't dare let go of her hand.
Feel the power of the vortex even through the pictures - I thought so. We felt energized like we had a little Zoe in us from these beautiful mountains of Sedona.
Really is a beautiful area of the country - at least we think so. I wouldn't recommend walking around without ALOT of water though - this place was in the 90s and we never saw any nature water source.
Gas: 2.45
We did a day trip from Phoenix and drove to Jerome and Sedona with an early morning stop at AZ state park - slide rock.Jerome is an old copper mine town about 40 miles outside of Sedona. Now it is filled with artists and bars that attract bikers.
Very pretty drive up the windy mountain road.
Bikers and open beer cans all over the place.
The water was FREEZING, but Zoe and I did get in and slide a little. This place has been known about for years, but only a state park since the early 90s. In fact, I went here on an RV trip with my family in the early 80s when it was just some cool rocks on a farm. Now that I'm older, I realize why none of the adults went in the water back then. Brrrr.
Zoe enjoyed walking around - but all of the rock was so slick I didn't dare let go of her hand.
Feel the power of the vortex even through the pictures - I thought so. We felt energized like we had a little Zoe in us from these beautiful mountains of Sedona.
Really is a beautiful area of the country - at least we think so. I wouldn't recommend walking around without ALOT of water though - this place was in the 90s and we never saw any nature water source.
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