Thursday, December 3, 2009 GO DUCKS!

It's 7:15 or so and we're getting ready to head out and get on the road to Bullhead City, AZ. I sure hope there's no surprises today like yesterday.

Ducks play their Civil War game today. They have a chance to go to the Rose Bowl. The family, the kids especially, are all excited about that. Dan, our son-in-law, played for the Duck back in and around 1989-1992 or so. Go Ducks and the best of luck to you.

I will try to get some photos taken today and will be back later. Have a great day.


Photos from today:

Going through Laughlin, NV on our way to Bullhead City, AZ which is just on the other side of the Colorado River.







We're settled in and watching the Ducks on TV. Will post some photos tomorrow of the park and us.

December 2, 2009 Bakersfield, CA

We had a very interesting day for sure. We really needed that GPS! Me, being the navigator, am not that good with maps. We totally missed an on ramp and picked the worst place ever to try to turn around! It was so bad, in fact, he had to disconnect the car!

This street turned out to be a cul-de-sac with deep drainage gutters around the whole thing; paved and normally would be ok for a car, but going as fast as we were, not really fast at all, and driving this huge rig, we rocked so bad you wouldn't believe it! Things were flying out of the upper cupboards and the noise was huge! The poor cats just huddled together with panic stricken faces. You'd think we have never done this before!

No photos today..........maybe tomorrow

We found our park in Bakersfield, CA and will be on our way again tomorrow heaing for Bullhead City, AZ.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

This is a potty/coffee break right before the Siskyous.


First time we saw blue sky right before the Siskyous.


Pixie enjoying the sun. She likes to ride up front. Better than shot-gun!

UPDATE!! Found the GPS cable in the van we left back at home but it will be sent to us UPS soon. Found my camera in my box I took to Jen's for the time I spent there.

We left Ridgefield in somewhat of a fog......not us, the weather. It was chilly but we were too excited to notice. We were off!

First night we spent in Myrtle Creek, OR, Tri City RV Park. We stayed there in January on our way back home from AZ. Still a very nice park and has easy access and easy out. We walked own to the Country Inn bar and grill for a burger.

On our way out of town the next morning, we stopped for gas at the 7 Feathers Gas Station an got a really good cup of coffee. This was December 1, 2009. We were headed for Redding, CA but arrived too early so went on to Orland, CA for the night.

Thought I'd try showing you the RV park listing.

The park we stayed in Orland was the Old Orchard RV Park. Bad internet connectivity and had to use the satelite dish for TV but had a good nights sleep. Spent way too much time on the phone with Dell about this laptop. Now, after twice being sent back to Dell to be fixed, the first time the keyboard, the second time the harddrive, now the keyboard again AND the camera. They said they'll replace it but I still haven't gotten that verified nor the process going. I think Dell hung up on me but I will take it back to Best Buy and they'll send it in for me and work with me on where to send it when they get it back. I will never buy another Dell anything.

We had our coffee and were on the road this morning about 8:45. Here's Chuck getting things ready so we could leave.



More later; either tonight or tomorrow. The sun is shining and the temp is suppose to be in thef 60s in Bakersfield.

Monday November 30, 2009

We are on the road. We left Rigefield, WA about 10:15 this morning. Not to many things forgotten. Can't find the charger for the GPS an can't find my camera. Hmmmmmm We need a new GPS anyway but not a new camera. So it'll be a little while before I can post any photos.

We're heading south on I-5 an have gone through Portland, Albany and are 35 miles from Roseberg, OR. We decided to spend the night at an RV park in Myrtle Creek, OR. That's about 350 miles for the first day out.

November 29 ~ T day! T is for Travel

Tomorrow is finally our day to get out on the road and head south. It's been a long time coming and so exciting for us. It should be exciting anyway but this year seems a little different. Last year it was more like a 6 vacation and this year is a 5 month vacation. I'm sure once I get going, I'll be fine.

More tomorrow!

November 27, 2009

It's in count down time for sure now!!! Only 3 day to go till we leave!!!! We have reservations made and we'll be hitting the road on Monday.

Come along with us..........follow along and see what we see. I'll be posting photos and letting you in on all our fantastic travels and friends we meet.