Friday, July 29, 2011

Finally home - July 29, 2011


We are home!  After driving 11,049 miles in 64 days we returned home this afternoon.  It was a great road trip.  We haven’t done one this long since 1977 when we toured Europe for three months (with girls) in a Volkswagen camper bus.

Our main highlight was seeing friends and relatives – some we haven’t seen in over 35 years.  To you, thanks for putting us up and thanks for putting up with us.

Other highlights (for me at least) were (in no particular order):
Royal Gorge
Devil's Tower
Glacier National Park
Banff and Jasper National Parks
Lake Louise and Lake Moraine
Vancouver and Victoria, BC
Crater Lake National Park
The Oregon Coastline
Monterrey and Big Sur areas
Death Valley
Lower Antelope Slot Canyon
North Rim of the Grand Canyon
Zion, Bryce, and Arches National Parks in Utah
Durango to Silverton Railroad
Mesa Verde National Park

There were many other nice places but I think these stand out in my mind for one reason or another.  Some restaurants, meals, micro-brews, and wines stand out too but I won’t go into those.  We packed a lot into those 64 days and probably didn’t give due homage to many of the places we visited but life is short and I’m getting old. 




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