Bad Blogger!

Bad blogger, I am! Sorry for not posting yesterday. We were visiting with my sister Carol and her husband Dick and time got away from us.  By the time we returned to the hotel I was ready for bed. And this guy was at the door to greet us. He’s motion activated and speaks to you too. Not really creepy but kind of cute. 

Today we spent the day with them again. We went to Cottonwood Az, 

A town not too far away that has lots of neat little boutique shops and restaurants. 

We had a nice lunch at The Tavern Grill.

It  was fun driving and seeing the different landscape.

 My pictures don’t do it justice. Not only is it hard to capture from a moving vehicle, but there’s also the glare and dead bugs to shoot around. 

Tomorrow we’ll be spending the day with Carol and Dick. Then it’s head for home on Monday.  

Are We There Yet?

Yes! we are cozily settled in our hotel in Prescott.  Wow! That was brutal. Between my not being able to move around very well and John’s back and hips we made a great spectacle checking in and out of hotels the past two nights. But we’re here now so we are going to relax for a few days.

I finally found some of the scenery in The Land of Enchantment.  It started as soon as we left Tucumcari this morning. Black eyed Susan’s lined the road and we started to see cactus.  Unfortunately I don’t take very good photos from the moving vehicle anymore and my cellphone battery died. I’ll put some pictures in that I found on the internet. 

 Then we went through the Carizozo Lava Field. I remember seeing it before and wondering why I never knew there was a volcano in New Mexico. 

               

I guess the last eruption was a little before my time. It occurred in about3500 bce.

We drove along and on Historic Route 66 for a while. 

                        

 

But the best scenery was when we got to Arizona especially outside of Flagstaff heading toward Phoenix. I’m sorry but I don’t have a picture of it to share with you. We’ll be here for a few days and I’m sure there’ll be more to photograph. And I’ll make darned sure i 2have my phone fully charged!

Looking For Enchantment

This morning was about the same as yesterday. We didn’t leave Wichita until 8:30am It was cloudy and drizzling so we weren’t in any hurry to get on the road. But we did and ended up here in Tucumcari at 3:45pm with the time change. 

I had hoped to share some new scenery with you but it was a little sparse.  It was pretty much this:

We weren’t the lead dog so the view never changed.

  until we got to New Mexico.

                          

 Tomorrow we’ll be on our last day of our journey to Arizona. I’m really looking forward to that. It’s harder than I imagined, this road tripping.  I expect a lot more scenery tomorrow. No more of these boring posts.

Oh Look Toto! We’re In Kansas!

 Wichita to be precise. We made it to our destination for the first leg of our adventure. It’s funny but I didn’t realize the last blog I did was from a trip to Arizona to visit Carol and Dick.  Maybe I should just say “see the post from 2-26-15.” Just kidding. This is a whole new trip. 

Remember I said that we’re older, slower, etc. well we certainly found out just how true that is. We planned on leaving as early as possible this morning. And seeing as we were both awake at 5am it was looking good. Our actual departure time was 8:20am! The drive was uneventful and we arrived here about 5:30pm.

Tomorrow we’re heading To tucumcari, New Mexico. I’m hoping for a little bit more scenery.  I’ll let you know if we see anything interesting.

Here We Go Again!

 We’re going on a road trip. Tomorrow we leave for Arizona.  It’s a long trip but we’re going to take it slow, driving about 8 hours a day. I know, we’re a couple of old, slow, stiff and cranky old farts.  But we hope we have one more trip left in us.  Cross your fingers and follow along with my blog.  I plan to post every day barring any connection problems. So I’ll see you back here tomorrow.

Coming To The End

We've come to the end of our winter break.  We arrived at Carol and Dick' s on Sunay night, but tomorrow we leave for home.

The past four days have been a lot of fun we got to see the new house as it's being built, as well as some of the other cottages in the community.

The desert is very different from what we see in our backyard.

One day we went to Jerome, Arizona.  It's a quaint western mining town sitting on the,side of a mountain.  Fantastically beautiful drive.

Yesterday we went to Prescott, Arizona.  It's a nice town with some cool shops around a town square.  We had lunch at The Palace on Whisky Row.  It was,so much fun, with lots of pictures of Wyatt Earp and his brothers.  

Today we took a train to the Grand Canyon.  What fun!  

The Cataract Creek Gang busted out of jail and robbed the train.  But luckily the Marshall caught them.

Now we're headed home tomorrow.  Sad to leave everyone and these fun places but it will be great to get home. 

Bad Blogger

I haven't been very good about letting you know what we've been doing.  Well, you haven't missed much.  What we've been busy with is trying to feel better and get healthy.  Our friends, Jan and Linus were sick when we got to California and it took a while for them to feel up for company.  Then Sean and Amy got sick with upper respiratory infections.  This past weekend I had a stomach bug.  Virus, or bad shrimp?  I'm leaning toward a couple of dubious shrimp at the sushi restaurant.  At least it seems we're all on the road to recovery now.  Thank goodness.

We have been spending some time with Jan and Linus.  Shopping one day in Brentwood and wine tasting in Livermore.  Anything more ambitious has been cancelled due to illness but we're having fun anyway.

Last weekend we went to Napa for a little wine tasting.  Went to one of our favorites, V. Sattui.  Now, this is pretty typical for this trip, so you'll understand we were not the least bit surprised when the electricity went out while we were tasting.  Thank goodness I downloaded the flashlight app on my phone.

We over there in the dark!

After wine tasting we ate at a great little drive in, Gott's Roadside Diner.

Yesterday we did part of the San Francisco 49 Mile Drive.  It was very busy, but kind of fun to drive around the city.  It was hard to take pictures but I got these from the car windows.

San Francisco Skyline

Dragon Gate Entrance to Chinatown

We've been dog-sitting with our grandpuppy, Lewis.  

Awww!

Sean and Amy left on Saturday for New,York to attend a memorial service for Amy's grandmother.  They landed in Detroit but the connecting flights to New York were cancelled due to weather.  Unfortunately they missed the memorial and,spent Valentine's weekend in Detroit, without luggage most of the time.  I know they'll be glad to get home tonight.  And I know Lewis will be happy to see them.