Blogs from United States, North America - page 17

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After Oklahoma City, our next major objective was Quartzsite, Arizona. Because that’s just too far for a single day’s drive and we’ve grown accustomed to driving no more than 3 hours or so, and the number of reasonably decent RV parks on that route is limited, especially with all the snowbirds on the move, we made reservations for five stops enroute: Amarillo, Texas, Santa Rosa and Grants New Mexico, and Holbrook and Flagstaff, Arizona. Our drive from Oklahoma City to Amarillo was long and straight and flat, with a whole lot of very little unusual scenery. The roads were mostly pretty nice, and just amazingly full of semis and their trailers. Of course, we’re not very different when hauling our 37-foot 5th wheel, but can almost always maintain speed when going up hills while many semis ... read more

Crazy to think that we have been driving for almost 7 weeks! The plan, such as it is, is to be back in Ocean Shores by the 24th. Avoiding all retail as that is Black Friday. This gives us two days before real life kicks back in. Of course I am armed with determination and all sorts of resolutions. I have already applied to a local college (no changing my mind on that). I have spent weeks of smiling at everyone I meet and being interested and engaged with complete strangers. I need to start learning from the people I see on a regular basis (or not, dear Seattle/Brier/Tacoma friends) and not taking them for granted. I will say that I am surprised by the number of friends and acquaintances I have thought about and missed. ... read more

We have made it to Quartzsite, AZ, where we’ll be staying for a month before moving on to Yuma for the Winter. For now, though, we’ll write about our stop in Oklahoma City, where we spent a couple of years courtesy of Boeing, 43 years ago. This is when we met Rinda and Richard, the boys learned to ride their new bicycles, and Natalie was the Popcorn Lady every Friday morning at their school. It was truly a pleasant experience to drive by the old neighborhood, wonder where all the neighbors have scattered and see how the neighborhood has aged. Some was rebuilt after a tornado took out blocks of homes that were near us before, but you really couldn’t tell the old from the rebuilt. And Oklahoma is one of the prime candidates for us ... read more

Day one. Oahu sunrise Thanks to our Jet lag we were awake before birds and had booked a Sunrise cruise with Viator, and had booked a taxi with Charlie's Taxi app. The taxi was always on time and reasonable compared to other companies. Our cruise had been cancelled due to lack of customers but we were rebooked on the Sunset cruise the same day. We decided to take a gentle amble along the beach taking in all the sights Honolulu had to offer. The locals were already taking the surf, playing Beach volleyball and jogging! The sun appeared over the Diamond Point crater North of the city. Breakfast was taken at a little restaurant behind the Hilton called Gangnam Style and was showing the video as we took our seats. Don't think we wowed the locals ... read more