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| We are looking forward to our trip this year
because last year our journey to meet Tom & Liz in Reno was cancelled at
the last minute when Sandy needed open heart surgery. So far (Knock
on Wood) We will leave on May 21st from
Kent, WA and our 1st stop will be
in
Hermiston, Oregon to spend the weekend with our son Jim and his wife
Melanie. From there we will drive thru the middle of Oregon entering Northern California for a while then enter Nevada just North of Reno. We will spend 3 nights at the Atlantis Casino Hotel. We will get to visit with our friend Diana. Then its across the desert down to Las Vegas where we'll spend three nights at Bally's on the Strip.. that is just across from Caesar's Palace. We'll visit with our nephew William and his wife. He works for Southwest Airlines at the Vegas airport. Then we will drive over Hoover Dam into Arizona and to the Tucson area and Benson where Sandy's brother lives. We'll spend about a week there, and I'll go down and see Tombstone. Or as Montana & Marino call it.. TUNESTONE On June 6th we are meeting my cousin Jane from South Carolina in Holbrook, AZ. They will be driving over from Texas where they will be visiting relatives. For the next 4 days we will caravan together... first stop is St. George, Utah. We will then go to Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon National Park and then spend the night in Page, AZ. From there we'll drive thru the Monument Valley, The Four Corners and end up in Durango, Colorado. Then we'll make the drive to Colorado Springs. We leave Jane and Deward on June 11th and will zip across Colorado and Kansas to the suburbs of Kansas City where our friends Tom & Liz live in Prairie Village, Kansas. Nick and his wife Linda will drive up from Oklahoma City and we'll spend the weekend there. June 14th we'll head back going thru Denver, Salt Lake City, Boise then back to son Jim's place in Hermiston, Oregon then home. I'll post pictures here as we go... so check this page out. Click on the Thumbnails below for Full Size Photo |
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 Friday 5-21 Cascade Mts. from Indian John Hill rest stop on I-90 100 miles East of Seattle |
 Sat. 5-22 Jim & Mel Making Smores at their firepit in their back yard |
 Sat 5-22 Hey its me |
 Sat. 5-22 Video of us making smores. |
 5-24 View of downtown Reno from our room in the Atlantis Hotel Casino. |
 5-24 The nice basket Diana & Co. had sent to our room with wine and Champaign and lots of goodies.. thanks Diana! |
 5-24 Low Quality Video of view from room at night |
 5-24 Our company up in our room, L to R Ty, Diana, & Jacques, they took us to dinner.. thanks guys. |
 5-25 Sandy getting ready to attack the Casino |
 5-25 I'm ready to attack anything hahaha |
 5-25 Low Quality Video of the view from our room |
 5-27 View from our room at Bally's.. that's Bellagio's across the Strip with the water spouts... I'll get a night shot later.. |
 5-27 The Night View |
 5-28 Palm trees outside Bally's |
 5-28 Eiffel Tower at Paris |
 5-28 Looking towards New York New York and the Mandalay Bay |
 5-28 The Bellagio |
 5-28 Sandy |
 5-28 Mick |
 5-28 Entrance to The Mirage with Caesar's in the background. |
 5-28 Mick outside Paris, it was really windy |
 5-28 On the walkway over the Strip.. at Flamingo Road.. |
 5-28 Inside Paris watching a cool rock n roll band |
 5-29 Inside the shopping area at Bellagio |
 5-29 Bellagio's Lake |
 5-29 William holding Bella, Sandy and Jen |
 5-29 Same bunch but with me. |
 5-30 Hoover Dam #1 |
 5-30 Hoover Dam #2 |
 5-30 Hoover Dam #3 |
 5-30 Ron's Mobile Home |
 5-30 The little Cactus Garden in the driveway |
 5-30 The landscape here... hot and dry.. I see I have a spot on my lens, I'll clean it. |
 6-01 We visited Tombstone, this is the Court House |
 6-01 Sandy and her brother Ron |
 6-01 I moseyed on over to the OK Corral. |
 6-01 I then flagged down the local Taxi and we took a tour. |
 6-01 We had a great view haha, |
 6-01 I spotted Big Nose Kate's Saloon.. she was Doc Holiday's girl friend. |
 6-01 We went on in and I got real friendly with the waitress. |
 6-01 I found Big Nose Kate's picture on the wall and tried to swipe it... |
 6-01 I ran out the door with the picture but ran into this guy... I said "Hey are you in Tom Petty's Band?" He didn't see any humor in that and chased me down the sidewalk |
 6-01 Just my luck I ran into Marshall Earp himself.. shucks I thought he was dead. |
 6-01 He threw me in the Tombstone Jail... |
 6-01 Thank goodness I didn't end up here... |
 6-01 Sandy and Ron bailed be out of Jail and we made our escape thru Boothill to the wide open spaces. |
 6-01 In the sun its over 100 degrees but on the porch its only 94. |
 6-01 Sandy standing in front of the "Swamp Cooler", which is an outside Air Conditioner.. it really works. |
 6-02 Ron & Peggy |
 6-03 99 degrees in the shade on Ron's front porch. |
 6-03 Cactus in Tom's driveway |
 6-03 Tom's House that he built about 12 years ago...its stunningly beautiful to say the least... |
 6-03 Tom & wife Rogene in the kitchen, she's making a soufflé. Sandy is sitting there also |
 6-03 The table where we had dinner... she is a great cook... we really enjoyed this. |
 6-03 Fantastic Bar and part of the living area in back. |
 6-03 Looking out the window at the over 200 cactus on his property. |
 6-03 The Pool and Palm Tree. Looks like Hollywood |
 6-03 Tom & I out by the Pool.. |
 6-03 I zoomed in on Tucson from the Pool Area. |
 6-03 Sandy and Tom in a outside area off the master bedroom.. |
 6-03 From the previous picture I turned to the right looking down on the garden by the pool. |
 6-03 Turning 180 degrees from the previous photo, the view of the landscape...this is now my computer wallpaper. |
 6-03 The moon coming up over Tucson as we left to go back to Benson. Thanks to Tom and his wife for a great evening. |
 6-05 We had the big family get together and BBQ at Ron & Peggy's today... that's cousin Tom checking for holes in his eye lids hehe |
 6-05 Ken & Jeff getting ready to do some cooking... |
 6-05 Rogene, Tom, & Tina |
 6-05 John, Denise & Family, he is Carolyn's son. |
 6-05 Jeff, Kristy & Family, she is Carolyn's Daughter |
 6-05 Connie, Garry, & Mary |
 6-05 Ken & Carolyn |
 Connie, Mary, Sandy, & Carolyn |
 6-05 Maryam, Kerrie, & Peggy, Kerrie is Peggy's daughter and Maryam the granddaughter |
 6-06 Before we left Benson we had breakfast at the Country View Restaurant where Peggy works... above is Dawn the owner, Peggy and Linda. |
 6-06 Salt River Canyon between Globe and Slow Low, AZ |
 6-06 Sandy & Jane in the Petrified Forest National Park |
 6-06 Mick & Deward |
 6-06 Petrified Forest & Painted Desert |
 6-06 Painted Desert |
 6-06 Painted Desert |
 6-06 Painted Desert |
 6-07 Glen Canyon at Navaho Bridge |
 6-07 Cliff Dwellers at Navaho Bridge |
 6-08 Zion National Park, Utah, by far the most beautiful Park I've ever seen. |
 6-08 Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah... amazing landscape.... |
 6-09 Monument Valley, AZ & Utah. I saw a pic like this on the net and was bound and determined to get my own.. and I did... |
 6-09 With the wind blowing like crazy Sandy and I are standing on 4 Corners where 4 different states meet. New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, & Arizona. |
 6-10 Snow at the Wolf Creek Pass ski area in Colorado on US160, elevation was over 10,000 ft. |
 6-10 We were stopped for road construction as we got close to I-25 so I got out and snapped this one. |
 6-11 L to R is Nick from Oklahoma City, me and Tom who lives here in Kansas City. |
 6-11 Sandy, Tom's wife Liz, and Nick's wife Linda. |
 6-11 Tom & Liz holding the Table Runner Sandy quilted for their wedding but we finally delivered on their 1st Anniversary.
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 6-12 Here we are at the "Little House on the Prairie", Tom & Liz's house in Prairie Village, KS
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 6-12 Kansas City, we were on our way to a Bowling Tourney that Tom was bowling in. |
 6-12 Tom picks up the Ten Pin for a Spare on the way to a 237 game as his team won the Tournament. |
 6-12 Tom's Winning Team and their Gold Medals. |
 6-12 We had dinner at a BBQ place and most of us had ribs. "Yummy" |
 6-13 Kauffman Stadium for the game between the Mets and Royals. |
 6-13 Of course I just had to wear my Mariners hat in Kansas City |
 6-13 Arrowhead Stadium where the Chiefs play is right next to the Royals Stadium L to R Linda, Nick, Sandy, Tom, & Liz |
 6-14 Looking up at I-70 and the mountain from our motel room in Georgetown, CO. |
 6-14 Georgetown, CO, an old silver mining town... really cool... good tourist trap now. |
 6-14 We ate in this old Saloon - Restaurant in Georgetown.. |
 6-14 The Old Train in Georgetown.. |
 6-15 A lake near Frisco, CO, up the Ski Resort areas. this was early morning. |
 6-15 Hey its our snazzy looking Jeep parked at the Up Scale MacDonald's in Vail, CO. Just down the road was Eagle, CO, where the Koby Bryant Trial is going on. |
 6-15 Driving down the Glenwood Canyon in Colorado in I-70 |
 6-15 On I-70 coming into Green River, Utah where we took US 6 towards Salt Lake. |
 6-15 On I-15 near Provo, Utah |
 6-15 The view from our room in Ogden, Utah |
 6-17 Jim & Melanie in Hermiston, OR as we were getting ready to leave for home. |
 6-17 From the rest area on I-82 just above Yakima, WA you can see Mt. Adams (12,000 ft) |
 6-17 From the same vantage point I turned just a little to the right and you can see Mt. Rainier (14,000 ft) and some of the Cascade Mts. |
 6-17 Coming up Snoqualmie Pass on I-90 getting real close to home now. |
 6-17 Our house was still here as we turned into the driveway. Its Good To Be HOME! |
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More Photo's to Come... visit this page often.. |
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