Wow, what a trip! Hopefully you'll have a scrapbook full of photos and menus and other miscellaneous memorabilia when this is done.
Wow, what a trip! Hopefully you'll have a scrapbook full of photos and menus and other miscellaneous memorabilia when this is done.
I'm jealous that you can get away for so long.
We have a single daughter with 2 kids that keep us from leaving longer than 2 weeks at at a time.
It simply is a trip of a lifetime for most people. The great thing about retirement is that you can go and do another comparable trip next year--if the stock market holds up.
Wow! Great itinerary! Have a great experience.
We just completed our first day of travel. 11 hours from home to Van Horn, Texas, 650 miles.
"The sun has riz,
the sun has set,
And here we is
In Texas yet."
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We just completed our first day of travel. 11 hours from home to Van Horn, Texas, 650 miles. Mountains all around us, close to Mexico. Will press onto Phoenix tomorrow.
For some reason, I have always been fascinated by Van Horn! Don't ask me why, because I don't know.
Glad you made it so far the first day. Texas is so huge.... it just never ends.
On the way there, the Tillamook cheese factory has a great tour if you are into cheese!
We drove 712 miles today and are now on the California/Arizona border, in a hotel just inside the California border. It was thousands of the iconic saguaro cacti in the Arizona desert, temperature was 102, right up to the California border where all traffic was stopped and we asked if were carrying any fresh fruit and vegetables. A couple of hundred metres further into California and the desert had turned into lush greenery with palm trees everywhere. California definitely bans the desert here.
The attached photo is from this morning from our hotel in Van Horn, Texas close to the border. Just after setting off we went through a border control checkpoint where ALL the traffic from I10 was question by border control officers. When asked if we were American Citizens I responded "Why aye man!". Fortunately I didn't look Mexican so he didn't ask to see our passports and let us through.
Santa Monica with DD tomorrow is next on the schedule.
+1You guys are driving machines!
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If I drive like Alan has, for even one day, it takes me a day or more to recover from a white-line hangover. One of the many things I enjoy about being retired is the luxury of not having to drive those miserable distances at one stretch.