Heading Home

Heading home now, we drove through the rest of New Mexico, the northern panhandle of Texas, and most of Oklahoma.  In Conway, Texas we stopped again…

New Mexico

We spent the night in Grants, New Mexico, a small town that is worth visiting longer.  There are a lot of vintage signs around the town,…

Today we turned back to the east, starting our return home.  I drove first, and hadn’t asked exactly what route we would take to our next…

Off Road for a While

We stayed a few days in the desert at my cousin’s house, a pleasant respite.  We’re just getting to know each other – you can tell…

Finally on the Blue Highways!

Today we took the opportunity to get off the interstate system and travel on real “blue highways.”  Leaving I-5 south of Bakersfield, we crossed the Tehachapi…

Pacific Highway

[caption id="attachment_533" align="alignright" width="1200"] Mount Shasta from 25 miles away[/caption] Today we took the Pacific Highway (I-5) from Seattle to Willows, California.  We drove though changing…

Bainbridge Island, Washington

Never missing a chance to get out on the water, we decided to take the ferry to Bainbridge Island.  The view from the water was wonderful,…

Visiting Relatives in Seattle

Yesterday we spent the day visiting relatives.  We drove up to Snohomish to visit my aunt – the widow of my father’s younger brother.  We had…

Vancouver, British Columbia

At last!  My first time in a foreign country!  When I was about 8 years old my family went to Niagara Falls but stayed on the…

Onward to Seattle

We left Montana, and drove across northern Idaho to Washington.  Nothing was as we expected, and the topography changed so much it was hard to take…

Montana

We arrived in Montana at the end of the day yesterday.  We weren’t able to find many hotels in the area where we wanted to stop,…

2014 Cross-Country Road Trip

Our first two days of this trip went by very fast.  We decided to get out west as fast as we could, so our firststop was…