Blogs from Riverside, California, United States, North America

When you get a wedding invitation to your brother,s wedding in Great Falls,MT and you live in Riverside,CA what do you do???? Plan a road trip! First step! Rent a car (Chevy Eqinox) and buy camping gear! My husband (Justin) and I decided on a spontaneous road trip taking us through some of the destinations we had always dreamed of going to. Zion National Park, Yellowstone National Park and Great Falls, MT. We began our trip at 3:30 am on a Tuesday in July 2016. We left Riverside,Ca headed twords Zion National Park in Utah. We planned on camping overnight at the Wathchmam campground. We booked our space the night before for a river front campsite $35.00 a night. So worth it for how beautiful our campsite was. We arrived at about 11am. Checked in, set ... read more

The agenda for Wednesday, November 12, 2014 was a drive to Riverside CA. I was looking forward to spending some time back in the area as Riverside is one of my old stomping grounds. After I returned from Vietnam, I was stationed at nearby Camp Pendleton CA and spent many weekends with my cousin and her husband (both teachers, now retired). I ended up returning to Riverside after my USMC days, spent a couple of years there in the early 1970s and, after some mild urging by my cousins to use my GI Bill education benefit, had gone to junior college there. College in the 70s – yes, Riverside is home to a lot of Larryistory. The Ram, Pilgrim and I departed Country Manor Mobile Home Community in Visalia CA under sunny, blue skies – well, ... read more

We are nearly ready! I think. Preparing for a trip this big, preparing for a middle school promotion, and a clients wedding is crazy, but I thought if I planned it well, it would all be ok. Throw in 7 dear friends and family members deaths, jury duty on a murder trial, a burglary, and today the car broke down, and things start getting a little stressful. But, I am, strangely, in a very calm place. I actually did plan for this trip well and we are nearly ready. #2 is out of school in 3 days and the other two in 6. We are going abroad for six weeks, then one more week traveling in the US when we get home. First we are visiting New Zealand, or as we like to say, Middle Earth. ... read more

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7th July, 2009. Banning, Los Angeles. Had to get up early this morning, a 69 mile drive to meet a fellow New Zealander (Grant, the guy with the funny car), he kindly made himself available as a postal address for us while we were over here - to enable Government agencies to send out Rego etc. He is over in Orange County so tried to avoid peak hour traffic (didn't work), the highway system is amazing over here and I was able to cover the 69 miles in about an hour and a quarter, Each side of the highway had up to seven lanes, and mostly I was getting along at 65 mph. Grant is off up to Denver for the weekend, he is racing his own car and will be doing two qualifiers and four ... read more