Jul 16, 2011 - Day 6...California!!!

California...finally!!! Mile 2196 for Graham. Left Joseph City AZ at 6:45 this am and we were “standing on a corner in Winslow AZ” by 8 am. Such a fine site to see. Found we could take a lot of the original alignment of Rt 66 after Flagstaff right up to Barstow CA without too much back-tracking and interstate. Found CA to have the roughest roads though. Funny thing is, there isn’t much traffic on the old alignment!! What a great trip so far!! Had a narrow tunnel again today. Winslow and Williams AZ were pretty cool. We’ll be at Aunt Judy’s...

Jul 5, 2011 - Day 2, just left Barstow

We stopped in Barstow at the Rodeway Inn at 1AM. Hey, it was a clean room! It took about 30 minutes to wake the boys up and in the shower. We were all pretty tired. We had a good breakfast and coffee, filled up the gas tank and we are listening to Jeff Foxworthy. Good times! Our goal is to go as far as we can today!

Mar 10, 2011 - Day 1

Well...we finally started off for Florida after almost 8 weeks in Redwood City, CA waiting to sell our RV. We pulled away from mom and Joy's place at around 1 pm and had a really smooth first day of driving. We arrived in Barstow, CA at around 10 pm. Tomorrow it's off to Flagstaff, AZ!

Oct 30, 2010 - Barstow, CA

October 30 Arrived at Shady Lane RV Camp in Barstow. This park is wonderful for an overnight or a few days stay. There is no train or freeway noise and the people are so polite and friendly. Larry and I went to the drive-in (one of the few remaining drive-ins left in the US). Being Halloween week, they were playing only scary movies Saw 7 and Paranormal Activity 2 – not much of a plot. The next day we went to Rainbow Basin. Gorgeous layers of colors. We tried to find the petro glyphs which were supposed to be in Black and Inscription...

Oct 19, 2010 - Day 15

Today we are going to see a taping of "Price is Right" and then dinner with Gene's friends. We left the hotel about 11:30 am and headed into LA. We drove around Hollywood and the surrounding area. Saw places where Gene lived and worked when he lived there. Saw the stars on the sidewalks and the big Hollywood sign on the hill. We had lunch at a McDonalds and the went to the CBS Studio at 3 pm PT. Gene's friend Benta made arrangements for us, so we were taken to a waiting room and then escorted to the set of the Price is Right and seated in...

Sep 28, 2010 - The "charm" of eastern California

For the next several stops we are basically marking time. We are aiming to arrive in Cottonwood, Arizona (about 100 miles north of Phoenix) on October 4 to visit with our friends Fred and Jo Wishnie, who will be camp hosting at Dead Horse State Park for the month of October. We decided not to arrive on – or just before – the weekend, since we know that those destinations in northern Arizona are pretty popular on weekends with people looking to escape the heat of the city. Also, we figured we’d give the Wishnies time to adjust to their camp...

Aug 31, 2010 - Bakersfield to Barstow

Bakersfield was just what we needed… We met up with friends for one evening, spent time with family one day and drove around the area to see what Bakersfield was all about…. The thing that we really out it over the top for us was just lazing around at a resort… The RV Resort had everything that a 4 Star Hotel has except the added advantage of sleeping in our own bed each night… We read books, swam, dined at the restaurant, joined in for happy hour with some awesome nachos and reasonable priced drinks… It has been a long time since we didn’t...

Jul 8, 2010 - Heading back to Vegas

Tuesday 6th July We had a fairly relaxed morning yesterday, hanging around in Monterey. It was a fairly unremarkable place, with its version of Fisherman’s wharf, and Cannery Row, as immortalised by John Steinbeck. The main feature about the pier was that there were a number of seafood restaurants, all offering free samples of their (excellent) clam chowder – so many, that, in fact, there was no need to buy lunch as you could easily fill up on the free samples (we didn’t, but we certainly could have)! Cannery Row has also moved on since the...

May 31, 2010 - Las Vegas to Barstow,CA

We fought dense traffic out of Vegas and took six hours to drive some 200 miles to our 'oasis" in the desert RV park. It was truly restful to pull into the solitude of the Barstow RV Park on the edge of the Mojave desert. The barrren rolling hills and mini mountains of sand rolled slowly by our windows as we negotiated bumper to bumper traffic into California.

Apr 7, 2010 - Ehrenberg to Barstow CA

After having the remote starter installed on the generator in Blythe, we headed toward Three Rivers to the Jazzaffair, overnighting in Barstow at the Desert Spring RV Park. Peggy Sue's was a mile away. Definitely a fun restaurant with good food, great music playing and fun things to look at.

Apr 7, 2010 - Barstow, CA

Over the last couple of days in Valencia, we were able to get the maintenance items taken care of on Suzi and make a drug run for John at WalMart. We have now been able to take care of our TO DO list before our summer travel this year. -- The Valencia RV Park is pretty this time of year with new bright green leaves starting to make an appearance on big trees that were bare when we were here the first of the year. We had some rain on Monday morning, but yesterday was like a fresh spring day with lots of birds and wonderful smells...

Apr 4, 2010 - Barstow, CA

We left the B&B II on April 2nd and drove to Havasu Landing (on the California side). We had a great campsite right on the lake. We enjoyed the scenery and eating outside. We had a relatively long day of driving to get there, about 280 miles. Today we drove 180 miles to Barstow, for a night stay. It got real windy once we got setup. Tomorrow we are leaving early in the hopes of getting out of the wind before it is real bad. Tomorrow we are going to Bakersfield, about 110 miles. Once we get out of the wind we will stop for breakfast....