January - March 2004    Travel Schedule  

Photos are here Updated 03-11-2004    

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I made it back to Michigan.  This will be the last update of information until the end of next week.  For those of you following this adventure from around the world...  I will leave these pages up until the middle of April.  I will eventually have to remove them to open the storage space for our website.  This has all been great fun and I have enjoyed the trip immensely.  Feel free to send me any comments you have.

Depart Elk Rapids MI ~ Monday January 20, 2004.  Hasta la Vista Frosty!

Jan 20  Benton Harbor MI
Jan 21  Memphis TN   (857 Miles)
Jan 22  Side trip to Hot Springs, AR
Jan 22  Ft. Worth TX ~ Stock Yards ~  Cattlemen's
Jan 22  Ft. Worth / Austin (Great website)
Jan 23  Ft. Worth / Austin  Decided to skip Austin and spend the day with
                                                 Wayne Youngblood and the Texas Legends
    Decided to skip San Antonio (raining in south Texas)
Jan 24  Midland TX  (1,825 Miles)
Jan 25  Las Cruces NM    (2,177 Miles)
Jan 26  Silver City NM /  Tucson AZ  (2,589 Miles)
Jan 27  Tucson AZ ~ Visit Nels & Lynda ~ Voyager Resort
Jan 28  Yuma AZ  (2,998 Miles)  Phoenix (awesome videos if you have a cable modem!)
Jan 29  Indio (Southwest Arts Festival) / Palm Springs CA  ~ 
               ~ Visit Coachella Canal Site.  EPI Liners 1990  (3,238 Miles)
Jan 30  Lindsay CA  (3,550 Miles)
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Feb 01       Lindsay (check out the murals),  Exeter,  Tulare...
   to             Picking Oranges with Connie & Jerry...
Feb 08       Had a marvelous week!
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Feb 09    San Diego  Arrived in Old Towne
                 Sea World ~  Zoo ~ LegoLand
Feb 10    San Diego  Spent the day at the Zoo - Great Fun!
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Feb 11     San Diego  The Show is Great!  Lots of people!  Too nice out doors to be inside all day... :-(
      to        Golf Course Supt. Association Trade Show
Feb 14     Dan & Fred visit   Balboa Park     Happy Valentines Day!
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Feb 15  Venice Beach - Santa Monica - Malibu  (3 hrs riding bike on Venice Beach...:-)
Feb 16  Morro Bay  (4,455 miles)
Feb 17  Hearst Castle - Paso Robles - Pacific Coast Highway - south
Feb 18  Monterey / Santa Cruz
               Big Sur... The most AWESOME drive of my life!
Feb 19  San Francisco - Bay Area - Santa Rosa will be home base
Feb 20  Napa Valley  (Total miles as of today - 5,044)
Feb 21  Napa CA - Wine Country  up 29, down Silverado -
               (Kinda like up Bourbon and Down Royal in New Orleans)
                        (take the tour with my buddy Vino)......
               Here is a Great Napa Valley Map
Feb 22  Santa Rosa  Visit the Dry Creek Valley and Healdsburg - Awesome!
Feb 23  Ft. Bragg CA - central - Also spent 15 mo. in Ft. Bragg, NC in 1970-71 ~
              They are both named after the same Col. Bragg.
Feb 24  Eureka  Continued on to Crescent City, CA
Feb 25  Crescent City  Total miles 5,633
Feb 26  Florence / Eugene ~ Newport, OR
Feb 27  Pacific Coast Highway - north
Feb 28  Kirkland WA Total Miles 6,265
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Feb 29      Kirkland, Puget Sound, Seattle...
                   March 1 ~  Happy Birthday MOM!  She's 88...
   to            Exploring the Northwest with son Tom...
Mar 03      Bike riding???  Aurora (awesome photos here)
 
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Time to start heading East...  Getting a bit home sick :-(
Mar 04  Salem OR ~ Redding CA ~ Medford Oregon
Mar 05  Reno NV
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Mar 06       Reno,  Carson City (outstanding website!),  Lake Tahoe...
   to             Exploring Nevada   7,075 Total miles to date
Mar 07       visiting  Morgan & Connie  bike riding  Virginia City 
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Mar 08  Evanston WY  (7,777 Total Miles)
Mar 09  2,200 miles - Reno to Elk Rapids
Mar 10 LaSalle IL  (9,045 Total Miles)
Mar 11, 2004  Arrived Elk Rapids  :-)  52 days... 9,432 Miles!
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There are photos under these clouds... take a look!

This itinerary is FINISHED!  Don't forget to REFRESH this page to get the updated links and photos!  If you weren't entertained by all this, you just weren't trying! It was a fantastic adventure for me!   Feel free to share this page with your friends and send me any comments you may have.