This blog is set up for our family to use as an online journal for our big trip out west.
Our plan is to hit the road from Coopersville, Michigan on July 27. We'll spend a week working our way to California, and hope to spend the weekend of August 4-5 with our friends Mark and Shari Jackson in Fresno, California. We'll then head to San Jose where we'll stay with my sister Heidi and her family for a week. During that time we'll visit San Francisco, the Pacific Ocean, and just relax with Heidi, Jeff, and their kids.
On Friday August 10, Theresa and I will fly to Seattle where we'll spend the night and go to our nephew Ryan's wedding on Saturday. The kids will stay behind, with Heidi and Jeff. We'll fly back to San Jose on Saturday after the wedding, and go to church with Jeff and Heidi on Sunday.
We plan to leave San Jose on Monday, August 12. We'll head north to Oregon, visiting Crater Lake and the Columbia River Valley. On our way east we'll visit Glacier National Park and then the Black Hills of South Dakota. We plan to get back home on Thursday, August 23.
All told, we will be gone for almost a month, and we'll put around 6000 miles on our van and camper. We plan to visit national parks in Colorado, Arizona, Utah, Oregon, and Montana. We're hoping for good (not hot) weather, minimal road construction, and safe travel. We'll update the blog when we can; many of the campgrounds where we hope to stay have internet access. We should be able to post a few pictures to this blog as well.
3 comments:
Sounds like the trip of a lifetime! I'm looking forward to reading your blog and looking at the pictures.
Have fun!!
Just reading that you are visiting us is so cool!!! I went to Costco today and began to stock up on food. What do you all like to eat and drink? Let me know and I will have food on hand!
Greetings from GR! I'm writing to you as I sit in corner of the chartroom--"Dave's seat--. Everyone here says 'Hi'..and Connie would like to know if your'e bored taking sooo much time off? HA! Pictures and writings are a great way to share your travels and at the same time gives us(those left behind) a glimpse of 'something more' beyond the walls of PMU.
Take care,
Mary
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