After almost 37 years of touring the ballfields and gyms of Oregon while raising 4 children and one husband we have finally set off on the post-retirement trip of our small dreams. We are spending seven weeks on the road and are hoping to put our footprints on at least 21 states.
We left our home in Newberg, Oregon around noon on the 11th of January and plan to take around 10 -11 days to reach Ron's sister's house in Round O, South Carolina.
Day 1 was a relatively uneventful day through the beautiful Siskiyous, past Mt. Shasta and a stop in Williams, Ca. Uneventful is good to start a 10,000 mile trip.
It is amazing some of the things that run through your mind when you somewhat mindlessly roll up the miles on the road. On day 2 the big victory of the day was finding out our navigation system would find the rest areas for us. That is really important stuff! Also while going through beautiful dowwntown Pixley on highway 99, my
sick brain went back to my teen-age years and the old TV show Petticoat Junction. Would they really be allowed to call their town Hooterville Junction today? Fortunately a rest area appeared and we were able to clear my mind for the rest of the ride. At the end of the day we rolled up to our stop at the Worldmark Resort in Vegas. Today after an amazing tour of Boulder/Hoover Dam, we got a chance to tour Vegas after dark. I much prefer the less pretensious look of Portland Or.. driving over the Marquam Bridge. It still has an innocence that has long sense left Vegas. We are looking forward to touring the area and visiting with Connie's dad tomorrow, but then bye bye Vegas.
We left our home in Newberg, Oregon around noon on the 11th of January and plan to take around 10 -11 days to reach Ron's sister's house in Round O, South Carolina.
Day 1 was a relatively uneventful day through the beautiful Siskiyous, past Mt. Shasta and a stop in Williams, Ca. Uneventful is good to start a 10,000 mile trip.
It is amazing some of the things that run through your mind when you somewhat mindlessly roll up the miles on the road. On day 2 the big victory of the day was finding out our navigation system would find the rest areas for us. That is really important stuff! Also while going through beautiful dowwntown Pixley on highway 99, my
sick brain went back to my teen-age years and the old TV show Petticoat Junction. Would they really be allowed to call their town Hooterville Junction today? Fortunately a rest area appeared and we were able to clear my mind for the rest of the ride. At the end of the day we rolled up to our stop at the Worldmark Resort in Vegas. Today after an amazing tour of Boulder/Hoover Dam, we got a chance to tour Vegas after dark. I much prefer the less pretensious look of Portland Or.. driving over the Marquam Bridge. It still has an innocence that has long sense left Vegas. We are looking forward to touring the area and visiting with Connie's dad tomorrow, but then bye bye Vegas.
For those of you that have been here before January 17th you will notice there are now pictures up. They are Mt Shasta taken from a Hyundai Santa Fe doing 80 mph, three pictures taken at Hoover dam, the Excalibur Casino, Miss Liberty from New York New York and sunset from our condo in Vegas.
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