A Cruise to Hawai'i

Our trip to Hawai'i just got a dozen steps closer. We have just booked a 14 Night Hawai'i Cruise aboard the Golden Princess leaving from Los Angeles on Oct 24, 2012. Yes that's next year but it gives us time to pay off the credit card and save up some more money for the trip.

Our cruise will take us from Los Angeles to Hilo on the Big Island (where I used to live), to Honolulu, to Nawiliwili on the Island of Kaua'i, to Lahaina on the Island of Maui, to Ensenada, Mexico, then return to Los Angeles.

Happy Birthday Kenny!

On this date, many years ago in the early 1950's, in the Mojave Desert town of Barstow, California, I came to be.

Barb and I celebrated this day of wonder by having dinner with our daughter Angel and her family here in Biloxi.

Back in Choctaw, OK

We left Amarillo, TX around 8:00 this morning and drove the last 275 miles to Choctaw, OK where we will spend a few days before heading south into Texas for the winter. There has been no incidents on this 3200 mile trip to California and back until we pulled on the property when we got stuck and had to have a tow truck pull us out. I am happy we have Coach-Net as our road service.

Kingman, AZ

We left Mojave around 8:40 this morning on our way back to Oklahoma, with our next stop in Kingman, AZ where we are spending the night at the Flying J Travel Center. Tomorrow night we will be stopping on the Arizona/New Mexico border.

Mojave, CA

We left Escalon, CA around 10 this morning on our way back to Choctaw, OK first stopping for the night after 302 miles on the road in Mojave, CA. This is like old home town for me after once living in Rosamond when I worked at Edwards AFB. I was born 60 miles east from here in Barstow, CA.

California State Sticker

We finely earned the right to place the California State Sticker on the map on the door of our motorhome. For those who know what our requirements are, you know why Barb is smiling. After 6 years on the road we now have 33 states on our map.

Escalon, CA

We left Bakersfield around 7:40 this morning on our last leg of our trip getting here just before noon.

Bakersfield, CA

We left Flagstaff, AZ around 7 this morning. Today we traveled 496 miles in 10 hours and have stopped for the night at the Flying J Travel Center just north of Bakersfield, CA on Hwy 99. 205 miles to go.

Flagstaff, AZ

We put in another 415 miles today leaving Santa Rosa, NM around 7 this morning, stopping for the night at Little America in Flagstaff, AZ. 704 miles to go. Tomorrow night we will stop for the night somewhere on Hwy 58 in the California Mojave Desert.

California

I always thought that I would never place the California state sticker on our map of places we visited with our current motorhome. But unfortunately I'm going to be wrong. Barb got word a couple of nights ago that her godfather in the Modesto/Stockton, CA area had passed away. She has always been close to her godparents. We'll be leaving early on the morning of October 11th on a fast trip out there and back. Barb's sister and brother-in-law from Arkansas will be riding out and back with us.