Showing posts with label road trip. Show all posts
Showing posts with label road trip. Show all posts

Thursday, August 4, 2016

I can hardly wait...

He's coming home, after eight years of active duty as a Navy Corpsman (nearly all of it down range with the Marines). The oldest grandson is out of the Navy and driving home from Bethesda, Maryland.
 Marymine flew back east to share the journey home. They have been stopping along the way and taking lots of great photos. So, I'm sharing a few of my favorites from those taken by Marymine...

Spring Grove Cemetery, Ohio 
 
Omaha, Nebraska Zoo

Rocky Mt Park, Colorado

Green River, Utah


Narrows, Utah


Marymine & Cody after 7 mi trek in the Virgin River, Utah


She is her mother's daughter...

They are only a few days out... I can hardly wait.






Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Simple...

It started out as a very basic plan, a simple plan. 

 Simply a rock from the home ranch, a glass disk, and a leather thong


 Eight months ago I made plans to go to a reunion of the Cowman's family in Oregon this month. My brother was coming to stay with Dad for the few days I would be gone.  Simple.
A week ago, my brother said he couldn't possibly leave his place in Ideeho for that long as they had just put in expensive landscaping and had to water it.  Less simple. 
"Just put Dad on a flight out of SMF and I'll pick him up, then you can drive over and get him after the reunion." Less and less simple. 
"No, I won't put him on a flight, he's 92, and doesn't get around that well. It's too much for him." I simply stated.

Dad said he didn't want to fly anyway, he wanted me to drive him on a little loop to see some ol friends and ol hunting grounds in Idaho, oh... and Nevada. Less simple.

So, I'm taking Dad to Oregon with me, where my brother will pick him up and take him to his place in Idaho, while I'm at the reunion.  Then I will drive over and pickup Dad to take him on his little loop.
I've had the Rav4 serviced and it's ready to go. I prefer traveling simply incognito.

who ever thought it was a good idea to have no spare tire on Rav4's was more than simple


Dad decided on the route for his little loop.
"Just a few friends to visit, and a few ol hunt'n camps to show you, Sis. Well and maybe a little fish'n too." Simple.
Here's the route:


LOL, what's a couple thousand simple miles, more or less. 
Load up Dad, we're burn'n daylight.