Final time: 4:57pm (Mountain Time) Final Mileage: 7,058.6 Driver: Colleen Song: Mama, You Got A Daughter (John Lee Hooker) And it’s a wrap! Now, we’re turnin’ this car around and heading to Vegas, baby!!
Time: 4:42pm (Mountain Time) Mileage: 7,041.2 Driver: Colleen Song: Sunshine Day (Brady Bunch) A quick trip by Laughlin and heading for the finish line …
Time: 10:25am Mileage: 6,634.7 Driver: Colleen Song: Expressway to your Heart (Soul Survivors) There is scenery everwhere! The rain has stopped, the roads are pretty clear and the rock climbs to the sky in shades of red , yellow and brown. And the plains are green from the rain – in contrast to the red […]
Time: 9:28am Mileage: 6,630.7 Driver: Colleen Song: Bluer Than Blue (Michael Johnson) New Mexico, we hardly knew ya …. just a quick four miles of asphalt. But you can’t beat the scenery!
Time: 8:54am Mileage: 6,591.9 Driver: Colleen Song: Wild String (Moody Blues) Rain, rain, go away … some pretty good thunder and lighting, too. Cortez, Colorado gave us a lovely rainbow. For a few minutes. Now the rain is back .. fortunately, though, the roads are pretty clear. Long stretches into the horizon as we make […]
Time: 7:02 pm Mileage: 6,123.7 Driver: Colleen Song: Bolero (Paradise Road Soundtrack) So far, no road construction. This would put Utah on a very exclusive list of states without major construction work going on. But it’s early yet .. A few facts about Utah you may not know … Jello is the official snack food […]
Time: 12:04pm Mileage: 5,995.5 Driver: Colleen Song: Devil Woman (Marty Robbins) So far, Oregon looks just like North Dakota … right down to the bikers. Big skies, big clouds, lots of green fields with few or no trees. And there are more cars on the road. Otherwise, just like North Dakota so far ..
Time: 8:54am Mileage: 5,455.6 Driver: Colleen Song: Wrap it Up (Fabulous Thunderbirds) Who puts the welcome sign on the left side of the road?? No picture of the welcome sign, by the way. AND our first official mullet sighting of the trip. Wow. Welcome to Washington. But redemption in the form of the best rest […]
Time: 7:58am Mileage: 5,382.2 Driver: Colleen Song: My Angel is a Centerfold (J Geils Band) Christmas tree country … the rain, the fog on the hills and perfect pine trees. And LIVE deer. The first LIVE deer we’ve seen. And our first ROUS sighting of the trip. That’s all we know.
Time: 2:47pm Mileage: 4,694.4 Driver: Colleen Song: Midnight Rider (Allman Brothers) Big sky country – the sky opens up and the stars are endless. Or so we’ve been told. It’s more like big gray sky country today. Big gray rainy sky country. But it is big. And rainy. And real purty.