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The Starting Line

The Starting Line

June 5, 2010 No Comments

White River Junction/Hartford, Vermont.  So, you ask, why there?  While it’s possible we wanted visit Hartford to pay tribute to Horace Wells (the man who first used nitrous oxide for dental anesthesia), or we wanted to visit the birthplace of Phillips Lord (the radio star who gave us Gang Busters – the first law enforcement […]

And the adventure begins …

And the adventure begins …

June 5, 2010 No Comments

So.  You have a week off and you want to take a road trip.  But where? There’s local – lots to do and see in California. There’s nearby – Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, even. There’s ambitious – Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah. There’s challenging – Texas, Colorado, Wyoming And then there’s us. You see, there were these […]

California … The Finish Line!

Final time:  4:57pm (Mountain Time) Final Mileage:  7,058.6 Driver:  Colleen Song:  Mama, You Got A Daughter (John Lee Hooker)...

Nevada

Time:  4:42pm (Mountain Time) Mileage:  7,041.2 Driver:  Colleen Song:  Sunshine Day (Brady Bunch) A quick trip by Laughlin and...

Arizona

Time:  10:25am Mileage:  6,634.7 Driver:  Colleen Song:  Expressway to your Heart (Soul  Survivors) There is scenery everwhere!  The rain...

And now for a brief intermission …

FOUR CORNERS:  NEW MEXICO, UTAH, COLORADO & ARIZONA But it’s Navajo Nation territory. And it’s under construction … the...

New Mexico

Time:  9:28am Mileage:  6,630.7 Driver:  Colleen Song:  Bluer Than Blue (Michael Johnson) New Mexico, we hardly knew ya …....

Colorado

Time:  8:54am Mileage:  6,591.9 Driver:  Colleen Song:  Wild String (Moody Blues) Rain, rain, go away … some pretty good...

And so the beginning of the end…

Our last day.  We’re heading south through Utah.  Roughly 700 miles left.  We’ve completed our national tour of McDonalds,...

Utah

Time: 7:02 pm Mileage: 6,123.7 Driver: Colleen Song: Bolero (Paradise Road Soundtrack) So far, no road construction. This would...

Cowboy Sighting

Texas – Nothing. Oklahoma – Nothing. Montana – Nothing. Wyoming – Nothing. But Idaho has cowboys. Real live horse-riding,...

Says it all …