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Luckyculver - Ultimate Road Trip - 2009

Welcome to Culver and Pete's blog covering an extensive trip across the American southwest. Below you will find our destination map and general itinerary. We will be traveling 6,700 miles over the course of one month stopping at some of America's top highlights.

Pre-trip Trip
Tuesday 4/14 - Depart Vero Beach -> Hilton Head, SC
Wednesday - Thursday - Heritage Week at Hilton Head Island (Pete's happy place)
Thursday 4/16 - Culver’s 25th Birthday @ Wild Wings

Ultimate Road Trip
Day 1, April 17 - depart Hilton Head -> Memphis, TN
Day 2, April 18 - Memphis, TN
Day 3-4, April 19-20 - Memphis, TN -> Albuquerque, NM
Day 4, April 20 - Albuquerque NM
Day 5, April 21 Albuquerque NM -> Chinle, AZ (Canyon de Chelly)
Day 6, April 22 - Chinle, AZ -> Kayenta, AZ (Monument Valley)
Day 7, April 23 - Kayenta, AZ -> Tusayan, AZ (Grand Canyon)
Day 8, April 24 - Grand Canyon -
Day 9, April 25 - Grand Canyon
Day 10, April 26 - depart Tusayan, AZ -> to California Coast
Day 11, April 27 - arrive CA coast, target San Simeon
Day 12, April 28- Big Sur via Pacific Coast Highway
Day 13, April 29 - PCH
Day 14, April 30 - San Francisco
Day 15, May 1 - San Francisco
Day 16, May 2 - Napa Valley
Day 17, May 3 - Napa Valley -> Yosemite National Park
Day 18, May 4 - Yosemite Park
Day 19, May 5 - Yosemite Park
Day 20, May 6 - depart Yosemite, head east

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By Luckyculver
May 8th 2009

Yosemite and Whitewater North America » United States » California » Yosemite National Park

As promised here is our Yosemite blog. As we write this we are driving from Auburn, CA as far as we can (probably somewhere around Salt Lake City). We arrived at Yosemite on Sunday afternoon. After checking into the campground and finding our site we decided that we needed to head over to the general store to purchase an additional tarp since they had had about three days of straight rain. After getting the tarp we setup camp. Setting up in Yosemite wasn’t as easy as the other places we had camped so far. As each of the sites had a [View Full Entry]

By Luckyculver
May 6th 2009

White Water Rafting (Merced River) North America » United States » California » Yosemite National Park » Yosemite Valley

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Hello Everyone! We have spent the last few days at Yosemite National Park. It was really awesome. No cell phone or e-mail. Mist trail was incredible and the weather was the best we have had. Today we went white water rafting. We attached a few pictures from that to show you. Click on the individual photos for a larger view. Pete is in the front seat and will be on your left (right side of the boat) and Culver is right behind. Tomorrow morning we hit the road heading east. We are keeping this entry short and sweet but will update [View Full Entry]

By Luckyculver
May 3rd 2009

Wine Country North America » United States » California » Napa Valley

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Hello from Wine Country! We spent a very rainy weekend in Napa Valley, but thats ok as we learned they were 10 inches behind on the rain they need for the season. We stayed at the Fairfield Inn - Marriot in American Canyon, very recommendable. On Friday we started off with a free tasting at Bouchain Winery. They were very proud of their location as they get the ocean breezes keeping their grapes warm and cool depending on the season. This is very important for the acids, tannins and sugars to develop producing great pinot noirs and cabernet ('cab is king' [View Full Entry]

By Luckyculver
May 1st 2009

Welcome to Alcatraz North America » United States » California » San Francisco » Alcatraz

Hello from Alcatraz! Last night we took our night tour of Alcatraz Federal Prison, but first let me tell you what we did during the day. We went to North Beach for coffee and croissants at Café Grecco. We chose it because it had Italian men having coffee and scribbling on papers, so you know it’s good. We then took a historic street car (this one was from Milan, Italy) to the Ashbury/Haight intersection which is famous for its hippie population. Very Amherst/Northampton/Thayer St.-ish without the exceptional college nearby. Overall pretty clean and smells like incense. But what it [View Full Entry]

By Luckyculver
April 30th 2009

The San Francisco Treat North America » United States » California » San Francisco

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We made it to San Fran! Since we have left the Grand Canyon we have been in the woods basically. When we left the canyon our next destination was Big Sur on the Pacific coast of California. It was about a 12 hour drive and we had been camping for three nights and getting ready to camp for another two in Big Sur. We decided to drive as far as we could then stop for the night at a hotel before we made it to Big Sur. We were able to make it most of the way through the desert before [View Full Entry]

By Luckyculver
April 25th 2009

The Grand Canyon North America » United States » Arizona » Grand Canyon National Park

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Saturday April 25th We made it out to the Grand Canyon 2 days ago. This is the first time we have sat down to get on the internet since we have been here. We are camping while we are here and luckily have had decent but chilly weather. The low tonight is in the high 20’s… We are currently sitting in the cafeteria in the local market place. It is nice, it reminds me a lot of the café from college, as do the camping showers and bathrooms (this is all while I was in the dorms). Culver says the showers [View Full Entry]

By Luckyculver
April 23rd 2009

canyon de chelly pics North America » United States » Arizona » Navajo Nation Reservation

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Here are some photos from canyon de chelly. [View Full Entry]

By Luckyculver
April 23rd 2009

Way way out there North America » United States » Arizona » Kayenta

Hello! We are spending the night in Kayenta, AZ the gateway to Monument Valley. Last night we stayed in Chinle, AZ home of Canyon de Chelly, a sacred place to the Dineh Navajo people. After checking into our hotel we went and looked around the South Rim drive of Canyon de Chelly. We stopped at the White House ruins overlook and saw the amazing view. The sun was beginning to set so the light in the canyon accentuated all the colors of the cliff walls. We stopped at a few more overlooks which included Spider Rock, the stone tower that we [View Full Entry]

By Luckyculver
April 20th 2009

Elvis has left the building North America » United States » Oklahoma » Elk City

We left Memphis yesterday after visiting Graceland. On one side of Elvis Presley Boulevard is some hideous complex that holds various exhibits including his jets and cars. The war memorabilia of Elvis was worth seeing as it had many little ration and equipment cards, his uniforms and the story of meeting Priscilla. Mostly I thought this side of the street was poorly setup with the main goal of getting visitors to visit all the exhibits seperatly so that you then have to enter one of 13 gift shops. Also, park some where else other than the complex as it appeared they [View Full Entry]

By Luckyculver
April 18th 2009

A day in Memphis North America » United States » Tennessee » Memphis

Saturday Night - April 18th Woke up this morning to Elvis music which constantly plays throughout the hotel and had some hotel breakfast (English muffin and what they like to call juice). We showered up and headed into the city. We didn’t really have any plans for many things so we were pretty much winging it. Parked the car by the Mississippi River, really weird but it was free and in a well lit area, good enough for us. We walked up Beale Street which was awesome. They had a Corvette car show which closed down the whole street. We were [View Full Entry]

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