Econo Lodge Inn And Suites Yuba City

... Anthony be so excited about his helicopter ride over Mt Rushmore, or Watching Andrew figure out that the big water slide was fun, are memories I will cherish. Was it easy? Not at all. Would I do it again? YOu bet. After all the time on the road and all the states we have seen, I have decided- like Dorothy- There is no place like home.

... got past Grass Valley. We arrived home at 3:15. Mark is exhausted from driving the winding construction delayed roads. The boys are glad to be home. It's funny to walk into our house and have so mch room again. I cleaned the refrigerator a bit so we could put the food in. The boys played, Mark went to get a newspaper and I put away a few things. After dinner and baths for all it's time to get some sleep. Our trip is finished.

... beautiful Idaho
3. Lake Powell
4. Montana license plates
5. People
6. Flowers
7. Idaho posts a "Historical Site" signs everywhere
8. Little Bighorn museum
and I can go on and on....
Signing off for now - we are planning our next route that has to include Mt.Rushmore and Lake Powell!!!!
Thank you all for following my blog, hope you had fun!

Zwei Tage verbrachten wir am und um den Lake Tahoe. Eindruckvolles Suesswasserreservoir (Umrundung mit dem Wagen: 117 km). Nachdem wir an der Suedkueste des Sees historische Zentren aus der Siedlerzeit besuchten, sind wir ins benachbarte Alpine Meadows gereist. Hier hatten wir ersten Baerenkontakt in der Umgebung des Ferienhauses. Heute gings hinunter nach Grass Valley. Daselbst besuchten wir die Empire Mine (riesiges Gold-Bergwerk mit tiefen Schaechten bis 2500m).

Well, we left around 11am - sooo, for almost 24 hours we did not see any wildlife but one deer and one chipmunk! Nevada was long! We decided to stop in Reno for late lunch/early dinner and had this great idea to show our girls the little white chapel we got married at - we did not go back to Reno since we eloped 12 yrs ago!
The little white chapel is GONE and some modern building is under construction in it's place - very sad to see it gone.

We are almost ready to go - have to make few more reservations, but, so far, we do have our trip outlined with places and dates. Looking forward to Yellowstone!
Now, I need to start planning and collecting all the stuff to bring on the road with us - I usually overpack, so this will be interesting :-)

... for things I need to do to officially pass my sabbatical. I checked off the first item today (with unexpectedly rigrous testing) when Jake and Andrew got their first drive time in on the infamous go kart. Andrew has a lot of potential for F1, but Jake is clearly headed for Baja racing !

GET-AWAY DAY! The tribe departs from Chateau Leal with speed and anticipation, bound for San Francisco to catch their international flight to Lisbon and beyond. The monkey children have, by now, even learned how not to hassle the TSA employees while going through security, improving their chances of being allowed on the flight.

We are leaving for Seattle now. We got to SMF using SuperShuttle. We should have taken taxi instead. They took us all over the place because they have to check some hotels. I wasn't aware that they do this since I always use SuperShuttle at night. Maybe they only do it during the day. Anyway, they are definitely worth it if there is only one of you. If there are many of you, might as well just take taxi.

Hello all, For those of you who haven't already filtered my emails into your junk box in protest at my verbosity, you join Teresa and me as the sun is setting over the desert mountains of Arizona. The splendour and subtlety of the fading light against the red and brown shades of the rock were already proving a tonic to the neon ostentation we'd left behind in Vegas. After an initial climb, Las Vegas to Grand Canyon is every inch the classic desert ...