All Trip preparation seems to have a plan shaped like one of those slides at the swimming pool, start gentle, get everything nicely planned, when to do things, so there is no rush. A week before, sat at the top of the slide, we see all below and everything seems to be running smoothly, but moving down, slowly at first, yes we have ticked off the things we need to do, a couple of days on and the feeling in your stomach is more uncertain - there is too much to do to be ready in time.
All the time our departure is rushing up faster and faster and the list of jobs seems to get longer and longer. Things you planned for one day seem to need a bit more time. As we approach our last day at home everything is whizzing by at White Rabbit speed. With the inevitability of the ticking clock, we will be sucked into the last drop of the slide, then be shot out over the water, where all is beyond our control to change (allegorical Atlantic), only to splash down in the bright, warm, clear water of our arrival in Florida , where we hope we can relax and float. Hopefully we will write again and describe the start of our travelling adventure when we have come back up for air.
Great journey from Tombstone, in AZ, to the Napa Valley, in CA...............................................Including Jim and Connie's Party!
What we did!
This is the blog of our 12th Trip to the U.S.A.
On this trip we arrived in March and spent a week with our friends Connie NA Jim at their Bluegrass Party, in Florida.
We then flew to Phoenix, where we collected our rig and then explored Southern Arizona, from the cowboy city of Tombstone in the East, to the desert City of Yuma in the West.
Travelling north along the course of the Colorado river we visited the London Bridge at Lake Havasu before exploring the Mojave Desert, including some more of Rout 66 and Calico Ghost Town.
Moving North West through California we shared in the CBA Bluegrass Campout in Turlock, before visiting Bodega Bay to follow The Birds. After sampling the delights of the Napa Valley we joined in The Fiddle Convention at Cloverdale before storing our rig and returning home after seeing some friends in San Leandro, near San Francisco.
This blog gives a day to day record of many of the things we did on this trip.
Sunday, March 3, 2013
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Bon Voyage - have a swift and safe journey. Look forward to reading your travels
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