Thursday, May 26, 2016
HELLO AGAIN
Hello Friends.
Arlyene and I are "waking up" our blog as we prepare for our annual migration back to the Pacific Northwest. We will be leaving the Las Vegas Motorcoach Resort on June 5th, traveling with our friends Larry and Linda Bergo who also have a motor home and a "sticks and bricks" home in Idaho. Our first stop will be in Ely, Nevada which will be our base for a one day visit to Great Basin National Park. (I bet you didn't even know there was such a place.) We have driven past it on two other occasions but never had the time to stop. We will correct that error on this trip.
After that we will be working our way up north where we will split off from Larry and Linda and make a side trip to Glacier National Park. Our inaugural trip in this coach was to Glacier back in 2011 but it was in mid September and we saw very little due to bad weather. We hope to correct that error too. After that we will spend July 4th with the Bergo's in Idaho and then work our way through eastern Washington with stops in Prosser, Leavenworth and Winthrop before crossing on the North Cascades Highway and then north to the Ferndale/Bellingham area for about three weeks for visits with friends and favorite places. After that we will work our way down to Bothell and a few weeks in the Seattle area before starting back south again in mid September. Our goal will be to be back in Las Vegas on October 1st making for about a 4 month trip. May the good health gods and the good mechanical gods bless us......
So you have been forewarned if you are subscribed to this blog. If you received this posting then in about a week you will start receiving our periodic postings related to this trip. The blog is basically our way of journaling our trips and making it available to anyone who cares to follow along. If you don't want to receive e-mails of new postings it is pretty easy to unsubscribe.
Looks like the temps here in Las Vegas will be at or near 100 by our departure date. As much as we love it here in the resort, those kinds of temperatures will make it a lot easier to leave. Last year just about everywhere this side of the Mississippi was on fire and hot. Hoping for cooler temps this year - and no fires other than our campfires - where they are allowed.
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Hi Walt and Arlyene,
ReplyDeleteWhat a surprise to see your message in my inbox this morning. I discovered your blog last year and spent a lot of time reading about your past adventures and looking for photos to remind me what you two look like after all these years. So I am looking forward to traveling along with you two on a vicarious vacation. My parents grew up in Ely, Nevada, and went to White Pine High School. They lived there until WWII sent their families and friends all over the world. After the war they both ended up in Seattle. In 2001 I took Mom to Ely and we found all the homes she lived in as a girl. One of the homes was up on stilts as the owner was digging out a basement. We had a nice visit. The drugstore where she had her first job (as a soda jerk) is now a parking lot, but the old Methodist Church where she first met the Lord as a child is still there, and so is the beautiful two-story high school. The hospital where she was quarantined with chicken pox is still there, too, 85 years later. When her mail-order bike arrived from Sears her Dad brought it down and held it up to the window so she could see it. We walked across the football field where she marched in the White Pine Bobcats Marching Band (pretty cool, and emotional for her too). I also saw the house where my Dad had to climb out the second-story window to go to school because the snow was so deep. (I've heard that story my whole life--I wonder if it was true.)
Well, have a blessed and safe trip. I'm looking forward to reading your blog and seeing your photos.