Fri Jun 25, 2015STATS Departure: 8:40 AM Bakersfield, CAArrival: 3:15 PM Palo Alto, CAMiles: 253 miles Travel Time: 7 hrs.It's been almost seven weeks exactly--just a couple of days shy—and about two weeks longer than we anticipated. Barbara and I are still (or again) sick, and we'll be checking in with our doctor on Monday. Friday afternoon was spent emptying the RV, which we have not yet finished, and Friday evening saw us collapsed on the couch i...

Thu Jun 24, 2015STATS Departure: 8:00 AM Kingman, AZArrival: 4:00 PM Bakersfield, CAMiles: 340.8 miles Travel Time: 8 hrs.This is just about it. We should be home tomorrow, if the Lord be willin' and the creek don't rise. We made it into Bakersfield after another full day of driving. We didn’t want to stop at Needles, because the forecast there was for 114 degrees. Bakersfield is soooooo much cooler at 104. As a last hoorah, we stopped for lunch at ...

Madly getting ready to leave, although we still don't know when that will be. We're expecting that we'll be starting out sometime next week.

This was another fantastic trip, in spite of the troubles we had along the way (the leveler issue is still not resolved). But the good parts far outweigh the bad. Traveling by RV is, in my opinion, one of the best ways to see this great country of ours. Spending a week and a half with all four of our “kids” can’t be beat.And I hope you all have enjoyed reading this silly chronicle of our adventures. We’ve both enjoyed reading your comment...

The tour bus arrived a little before 10:30 am to pick us up for the wine-tasting tour. (The bus was a shuttle-bus size, not a Greyhound.) Our driver/guide was Fritz, the same guy we had at the end of the New England Color trip. Fritz is a nice guy, about our age, and knows just about everything about wine. It made the tour even more interesting.We left the RV park for downtown Paso to pick up the lunches, then to a hotel to pick up the other couple who would be ...