How much dirt can one get in their teeth, hair, shoes, bodily crevices? After 5 hours of driving with those same bazillion trucks, we were instructed to turn on to Reche Road...The name should have been an omen. The pavement soon ended and we were on DIRT roads with ruts as deep as you can imagine. Everything was rattling and shaking and we were wondering where in the heck were we being sent by Suri. She has always been reliable. We finally arrived at the Josh...

We are off!! t***ie and Testie were ready to hit the road. We had planned on staying the night just outside of Kings Canyon National Park. We just assumed everyone would be home and not traveling after Labor Day, but we were wrong...all the RV parks were full. So...it was on to Visalia via HWY 99 along with a bazillion trucks. We arrived at 4:30pm at the Sequoia and Kings Canyon KOA RV park. We had a tree and there was a pool...all is well. Walt and Barb serv...

ahhh...the preparations. We have the route sort of mapped out across the southern states. It will depend on Mother Nature's sense of humor or lack there of....stay tuned