Time to get back on the road

January 30 2018

There is a great lunar eclipse about to happen but here in So. Oregon the sky is clouded over so the view will be a non event here.

Our trailer gets a little closer to being on the road everyday.  Still a good deal of packing and cleaning to do and departure date gets closer and closer.  Yesterday I cleaned out the trailer garage.  Took most of the day but way easier than attempting to clean the garage attached to the house. 😄 Finished it up by fogging for bugs in the garage this morning.  Now we will start to pack it up.

We planned this trip to Texas during our winter, thought it would be warmer there.  Not so sure since we are having a much milder winter than usual.  Our crocus is blooming already and the daffodils are not far behind them.

I have always wanted to go to Big Bend National Park in Texas.  It is right on the Mexican border in West Texas.  My dad was a 4th generation Texan.  His family was mightily pissed when he allowed his daughter to be born in Montana rather than Texas.  Additional motivation was provided by making great friends with Dick and Karen who worked with us in Yellowstone last year.  We are hoping they will be able to meet up with us for a few days.

We are going to be joined on this road adventure by our traveling buddies Greg and Pat.  This will be their first trip in their new fabulous 5th wheel.  We have traveled many wonderful miles with them and are looking forward to this trip.

We start off with a visit to Joshua Tree National Park for 3 days.  Then we head down through Quartzsite, Az then turn south through Oregon Pipe National Monument.  Hopefully we will then have an easy trip into Sonora, Mexico to Puerto Penasco where we can gorge on seafood, great Mexican food, sun, and sea.  We will be camped on the beach on the Sea of Cortez.  Should be wonderful.  Then we will head back Stateside and journey to Big Bend.  We will end up in San Antonio, Texas.  That will be our turn around point and then we will head north to Acoma, New Mexico.  A stop in Monument Valley on the Navajo reservation then onto Mesa Verde National Park.  Our final stop hopefully will be Arches National Park and then we will begin to make our way home to Medford.

So check in on this Blog.  Hopefully I will have the energy to keep this updated.