Travel Blog
We spent our last night of travel before reaching Melissa and Mark’s farm at Bennett Springs State Park in Lebanon, MO. On the way there, we stopped at two more Route 66 roadside attractions, the Blue Whale of Canoosa and a restored gas station called Gary’s Gay Parita Sinclair Gas Station, named after the original…
On the way to Guthrie, we saw a couple of Route 66 roadside attractions. One was the Leaning Tower of Texas, located in Groom, Texas. It’s an old water tower stuck into the ground at an odd angle. We also drove by an art deco Conoco station that looked so retro. We arrived in Guthrie,…
On our way to the Route 66 Visitors Center, we stopped at the Cadillac Ranch, a Route 66 classic that features seven Cadillac’s embedded in the ground at a 45 degree angle. You are encouraged to buy spray paint that they sell on-site, and put your mark on the monument, which we did! When we…
We drove from Deming, NM to Roswell, NM, which we expected to be a boring flat drive with nothing but desert in between. Who knew there was a 7,500 foot mountain pass between the two? We got snowed on at the top, but fortunately it didn’t accumulate on the highway, only on the surrounding terrain. …
We had a leisurely morning and left Ellen & Bernie’s about 8am. We drove through a rain the entire way to Deming, NM. It rained and hailed so hard at one point, we almost pulled over. We also saw an overturned SUV in the median that happened a couple of minutes before us. A not-so-gentle…
After Quartzsite, we made the short 2.5 hour drive to Ellen and Bernie’s where we stayed through Easter. While we were there we: Visited Karen’s parents at their winter home in Tower Point RV Resort Walked the dogs through Dobson Ranch Had a delicious Taco dinner at Courtney and Leonard’s new home Played golf with…
We drove through Joshua Tree National Park on our way to Quartzsite, stopping a couple of times to take in the Joshua Trees and cool rock formations. We arrived at the Holiday Palms RV Resort on Friday around 1pm and quickly got set up in about 1/2 hour, including disconnecting the truck from the trailer,…
The drive down HWY 99 was shared with lots of big trucks. We made a couple of stops along the way to dump the gray and black tanks and fill the propane. We only needed two gallons of propane. We arrived at Slash X Ranch, another Harvest Host location, and found that the restaurant is…
With the Siskyous in our rearview mirror, we drove for five hours on mostly level terrain, braving the trucks and heavily worn pavement. We stopped at two gas stations along the way, paying $4.59 a gallon, California prices, making our way to Vista Ranch. After arriving we bought a nice bottle of wine, sat in…
We woke up in thick fog which quickly burned off to provide another beautiful day for a drive over Grant’s Pass and the Siskiyous, including a drive by Mount Shasta. When we arrived at the Gold Hills golf course, a Harvest Host location, in the early afternoon, about 2pm. We quickly set up and Steve…