Hey everyone! Well, today we’re on the road traveling through Oklahoma. I believe the last time we updated our blog was back in Holbrook, Arizona. Whoa! The miles sure have past quickly! . While in Holbrook we woke up the next morning with plans to visit the Petrified Forest nearby. We stopped into a little rock shop run by an old native of the area and went crazy for the rocks he sold there! He had piles of petrified wood, agates, geodes, glass chunks, precious stones, etc. Even though we keep lecturing ourselves not to accumulate too many rocks along [View Full Entry]

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So, yes….back to ticks and scorpions. While packing up the tent the next morning, guess what just happened to crawl out?? A SCORPION! Yikes! We were sleeping with it! So we took some pictures of it, thanked the baby Jesus that it didn’t hurt us and went on our way. We drove on out of the Lake Euphala Campground and made our way to Arkansas… The Natural State. We had heard on TV that somewhere in Arkansas you can mine your own quartz, diamonds and other gems. We were all over that idea so we looked it up and headed [View Full Entry]

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[url='/Videos/3453.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/3453.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'] PIMP Onward ho! Well, we continue our adventures onto Arizona. We continued on past the Hoover Dam and into Kingman, where we decided to stop at a motel in order to regroup and relax from our time in Vegas. We found a room at the ‘Arizona Inn’ that was acceptable, and looked around the town a bit. Kingman is on the old Route 66, and there were a few interesting places through the town that seemed to be old attractions. We ate at a great Thai place, too. After checking out [View Full Entry]

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[url='/Videos/3439.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/3439.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'] I Need Wha-tah On to our next adventure…we had to drive through Death Valley in order to get into Nevada. Yep, it’s a valley. hot. wide. And that’s about the extent of it. The lowest part was 200 feet below sea level and the highest point was well above 1000 feet so we were getting some serious elevation change. We really enjoyed cruising down the other side of the giant hills, evidently the pavers didn’t want to go through all the trouble of flattening out t [View Full Entry]

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[url='/Videos/3375.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/3375.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'] Lombard Street[url='/Videos/3376.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/3376.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'] We Don't Know Nuthin'...[url='/Videos/3411.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/3411.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'] Shrine Drive-Thru Tree Howdy everyone! I hope this blog finds you well! We’ve been having quite the action packed trip and it seems to only get better! I believe the last update you found Natalie and me wondering through t [View Full Entry]

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**FYI, LeAnne wrote the blog, & Natalie commentaried the pics... Hey EVERYONE! Yep, it's us again hollerin' from good ol' Eureka, California. A lot has happened since the last blog....let's see, that was 2 days ago. Well we will begin in Bend, Oregon. Natalie and I had spent a good two days there checking out the parks and visiting with Marja, my guiding buddy from Alaska. Our scheduled departure date would be that Saturday afternoon, an hour before my other buddy Julie would arrive in Bend. It just seemed right to stick around a little longer to visit with her [View Full Entry]

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Untitled **Note: This is really long, but it’s b/c it’s the introduction…The rest of our updates should be more tolerable, and we’ll be sure to throw lots of pics in if you’d rather just look at those. Well, we’ve finally begun our adventure! We wanted to keep our friends & family updated of what’s going on during our trip, so this is our travel blog where you can get all the updates and happenings. I’ll be writing most of the entries for convenience (me = Natalie), but definitely with LeAnne’s inputs. [View Full Entry]

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We arrived in Bend Friday night and visited with LeAnne’s friend Marja. We had a good time visiting with her & LeAnne enjoyed catching up. We decided that we'd spend the next day letterboxing around the area to be able to visit the local parks. Our first full day in Bend we spent down at the Lava Cast Forest and the Lava River Cave. Bend, Oregon is the site of massive volcanic activity that took place over 6,000 years ago. This created an entire ‘forest’ of volcanic rock that came from the Newberry Volcano. We walked around the area down [View Full Entry]

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