Road Trip Tag

Road Trip!

Note: This was written about two weeks ago on our way to California.  Unfortunately, today we are in Central Illinois dealing with 6 inches of snow! It's zero-dark thirty and we're in our car heading west to California on our first road trip of 2016.  It's...

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Road Stories

  We had planned on visiting the Redwood National Park, but at the last minute changed our plans and spent a little extra time in Monterey.  Pretty sure the Redwoods will hang around another year or so for us to visit. 100 Miles of Fruit Trees We took...

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Wildlife

  Frankly, up to this point this trip has been a little disappointing when it comes to wildlife.  Yes, we've seen a couple of golden eagles, plenty of hawks and lots of lizards, but we haven’t seen anything new, nor any of the “special” animals.  Can’t tell you...

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Headed West

Last Wednesday we packed our bags, loaded up Red and headed west again.  This time our primary goal is Sedona, Arizona.  We only got a taste of it the last time and we decided we needed to spend some quality time there. But of course, part...

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On the Road Again

When we retired we decided that a cool goal for 2012 would be to visit all the 48 contiguous states and to geocache in each one.  We started working on this goal in February and have since visited and geocached in all but 13 of...

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WWII and Beyond

Today, we started our latest trip: headed to the northwestern and northern states: The Dakotas, Washington, Oregon, Minnesota, etc. We began our trip by visiting Peoria, Illinois with Monte and Aleta to see a reenactment of one of the battles of Normandy. Before the battle we were briefed...

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