OUR NORTH AMERICAN
SAFARI A.K.A. “The Big One” is
officially underway!
March 22-26, 2013
The 4 intrepid traveling Wraights: Mike, Karen, Guinness and
Corona departed their beloved Ashland, Oregon on Friday. After much stressing
and worrying and a bit of consternation we decided we were as ready as we could
possibly be to embark on our 6 month North American adventure. What had we
forgotten???
We headed south making our 1st night’s stop in
Red Bluff, California. Durango RV Park is one of our favorites. Saturday we
pointed our selves in the direction of Sacramento, to meet up with Karen’s
brother Eric and sis-in-law Carol. We made our destination all right, but poor
Miss Carol was hospitalized on Friday with her appendix needing to be removed.
Sort of put a damper on the family gathering. Eric treated us to a great dinner
in Sacramento as a send off for us. Sunday saw us motoring towards San Jose. We
met our newest family members – Marq’s finance Stephanie’s parents. It was nice
to meet Debbie and Doug Chambers and get acquainted with them a bit. We are so
excited about the upcoming November wedding. Monday saw us heading further
south to Bakersfield; not a garden-spot destination, but a good distance to
travel continuing our southerly route. The night’s point of interest was
watching a couple of industrious guys blowing and raking dust in a dirt lot,
not sure of their goal, but it looked pretty amusing to us. Day number 6 gave
us a direction change and heading more easterly towards Needles. We were
definitely in the desert. The landscape was interesting, changing from citrus
fields, to wind farms, rolling hills and long straight highways. Warm weather
was a delight; temps in the 80 degrees were very enjoyable to these old bones.
Our stop for the night was the Elks Lodge. The RV Park sits up on a bluff over
looking the valley, the air was quite clear and we had a beautiful view of the
mountain range across the way.
We have our 1st 1000 miles are under our wheels
and generally all is going well.
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| Bakersfield, blowing away the dust! |
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| Mojave Desert Wind Farm |
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| the boyz, traveling buddies |
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| the open road! |
I'm glad to hear that you are off to a good start...with the exception of poor Carol's surgery. That is a bummer!
ReplyDeleteI hope the weather is cooperating with you. (Vancouver)Karen and her husband, Tom, are at Lake Pleasant, AZ. They were going to head to Flagstaff, but it was too cold - so she said. They are exploring Jerome, AZ today instead. It would be a hoot if your paths crossed!
It's supposed to be 75º in Salem today! Spring is sprunging!
Happy hippity-hop! Eat lots of chocolate bunnies. I hear they are really good for you!
C.