If I could make this blog play background music, it would be Johnny Cash's "I've been Everywhere"... because that's what it feels like right now.
We've been to Vegas, we've been to the Morongo Indian Reservation, we've been to Jerome CA, San Diego, Acton CA (we were chased out by a wildfire), we've been to Palmdale CA, Menifee CA, and Santa Barbara CA.
We went back to Vegas (car maintenance), and now we're headed on a grand driving tour of Utah which is bringing us out of Nevada, back in and out of Arizona, into, over, and through Utah, in and out of Colorado, back into Utah, and finally into Wyoming.
We plan to see mountains, canyons, coral sand dunes, hoodoos, reefs, arches, and dinosaurs. Sunrises and sunsets.. the heat of the desert days and the cool desert nights. We don't expect to see rain, we haven't since Arkansas... but stranger things have happened!
We've got a rough route mapped, but no timing planned on the latest adventure. One day at a time...
Callie is registered for public school in the fall, whatever that will look like. I'm halfway through another semester at school, ONE more to go! We're looking at how to best get home without rushing or missing the start of school, maximize experiences without getting exposed to or contracting COVID.
So that's the current update... I'll leave you with some photos...
Joshua trees... not in the National Park...
Mojave Dessert (not what we expected)
San Bernadino Mountains & Valley
San Diego fun
Manifest Destiny
(Coast to coast! Pacific Ocean in San Diego)
Acton, CA #SolidadFire
(2.5 hours to find a site with hookups, fire evacuated us within an hour of set up 🤪)
Menifee, CA
LA is on the horizon, we didn't go into the city due to COVID. Real life...laundry!
Santa Barbara, CA
Camping at the top of the world in Los Padres National Forest... Rancho Oso Rv Ranch
Santa Barbara, CA
The ritzy town, warf, and beaches
Route 101 & Ventura Highway
(Cue the music... you know I played it several times during our drive... https://youtu.be/tnV7dTXlXxs)
Leaving California...
Mojave desert again, world's largest thermometer (Baker, CA), yes it says 117 degrees!
