November 2014 – Harry Lange

After we got home Hank got a hair cut. He usually gets groomed every 6-7 weeks. It had been 15 weeks since he got groomed the last time.
He doesn’t even look happy with all this hair. He had a great trip and wasn’t ready to come home.
Look at the size of his paws.
Happy dog !

Home – Tuesday November 18, 2014

We got home Monday night.

An interesting thing about this trip is in 2004 on a 2 week vacation we drove 4308 miles in the motorhome we had then. This year on a 12 week trip we drove the motorhome 5009 miles, plus 2130 on the car we towed.
This is an overview of the trip.

Northern third:
Southern third:

Some of the places we visited are:

Sparks, NV
Cathedral State Park, NV
Zion National Park, UT
Jacob Lake, AZ
Grand Canyon National Park, AZ (northern side)
Lees Ferry, AZ
Monument Valley, AZ
Four Corners, AZ-NV-CO-NM
Canyon DeChelley, AZ
Datil Well & Very Large Array, NM
Elephant Butte State Park, NM
White Sands National Park, NM
Alamagrodo, NM
Oliver Lee State Park, NM
Deming, NM
Rock Hound State Park, NM
Catalina State Park, AZ
Tucson, AZ
Saguaro National Park, AZ
PIMA Air Museum, AZ
San Xaixier Mission Church, AZ
Titan Missile Museum, AZ
Kartchner Caverns State Park, AZ
Joshua Tree National Park, AZ

We had a great trip.

Armitage County Park – Eugene, OR – Sunday November 16, 2014

Campsite picture, site 15 – stop over on the way home.

Valley of the Rogue State Park – Medford, OR – Saturday November 15, 2014

Here’s our campsite for Friday and Saturday, we’ll leave here Sunday morning with a target of Eugene, Oregon. It is a beautiful mostly sunny day. Hank and I got out yesterday for a 3.5 mile walk and this morning for 4.5 mile walk.

This is the first rain we have seen since before Zion National Park and was taken in northern California on Thursday.

Thursday we drove all the way to Valley of the Rogue State park, I didn’t want to get stuck south of the Siskiyou’s in case the cold air mass decided to move further south and west. Thursday we drove 526 miles and didn’t get here until after 5:00, it was a long day.
Here is our travel map for this trip. Like I said Eugene on Sunday and then home on Monday.

Valley of the Rogue State Park – Medford, OR – Thursday November 13, 2014

Goodbye sandals 😦 .

Joshua Tree Natl Park to I-5 – Wednesday November 12, 2014

We are on the road today. Left camp at 7:45 and drove until 3:30. I had looked for RV parks to stay at during the 2 night we’ll be in California but could find to many Passport America places that were not a pain to get too. I decided we’d just to Rest Stops and stop before it gets dark and they start filling up for the night.

Went north on 247 to Barstow and west on 58 to Barkersfield and Hwy 99, north on 99 to 46 where we turned west again until we got to I-5. We are at a rest stop by Avenal, Ca., 305 miles

I think Jean got some road pictures, if she did I’ll add them tomorrow.

Tomorrows driving distance will depend on traffic, I’d like to get to Red Bluff.

Joshua Tree Natl Park – Tuesday November 11, 2014

Here is another campsite picture. This campground is nothing to get excited about and if their were many people it is more than likely a nightmare to stay here. The place was mostly empty so it wasn’t to bad.
Here are pictures of Joshua Trees out across the park.
One of the neat rock formations.
As the sun was going down.
Tomorrow morning we head out north towards home.