We have been 3274 miles since we left home.

After our Disney fun Friday night we headed north to the big citySaturdaymorning.

If you want graffiti, LA has it.

LA downtown.

I figured Hollywood on a Saturday morning should be pretty tame, but it was a zoo of Michael Jackson fans and other weirdos.

I also thought traffic would not be bad.........oh well.

Hollywood Boulevard.

We saw Edward Sissorhands, Elvis, Maylin Monroe, Jason (the guy in the mask), Indiana Jones, and Darth Vader.

The walk of fame was fun.




We rode down Sunset Blvd to Santa Monica Blvd. We drove through Bevery Hills (no Jed in sight) and Rodeo Drive and we ended up at the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica.



This was later in the evening on the Santa Monica Pier.
Standing in the Pacific, it was cold!!!! Like going to a North Carolina beach in late November.






The next morning we drove up the Pacific Coast Hwy. and stopped for a swim, well it was so cold even the kids didn't get all the way in.

The locals call it the "June Gloom" when the inland heat draws the fog from offshore onto the beach. There was a mountain about a half mile off the beach but we didn't see it for an hour.
We continued up to Monterey Bay but it was so foggy that we could not see any scenery.

Monday morning was spent at the Monterey Aquiarium, it was awsome.

We had lunch at this place....delicious!

Then we drove back down the PCH to see some of the stuff we missed in the fog the day before.

Words and pictures can't convey how beautiful this area is.

Its hard to tell. but this was about a 400 foot drop from where we spent the night to the ocean.














We are now about 15 miles south of San Francisco waitting for rush hour to end.

I will post more on the last couple days, I have skipped over a lot.

We have driven 2669 miles since we left home (but zero the last two days). Yesterday, June 26th, we walked about 10 miles @ Disneyland.

This is the Matterhorn, its a fun little rollercoaster that we rode twice first thing in the morning before the crowds arrived.



My beautiful girls at a "Kodak moment" spot.

Joey and I are blowing you a kiss on Slash Mountain.

We saw the fireworks from inside the park this time.

In front of Sleeping Beauty's castle at the end of a long day.

We started the day @ 7 am with breakfast and got back to the RV @ 1230 am, which is pretty late when you consider that 1230 am in California is 330 am on the east coast. We were so tired that we all collapsed when we got in, I took my shoes off outside and my feet quit on my, I had to crawl in.

I can see why all these people live here, it's almost July and it was 77 degrees yesterday for the high and no humidity. The only problem I see is that all these people live here.

We are "livin it up at the Hotel California" This is the view from our RV park in Anaheim. We watched the Disneyland fireworks from our site last night.

Snow on top of the mountains about 45 miles from Los Angeles.

Somewhere on I-40, if you look close you can see just a little bit of a rainbow. We actually got rained on in Kingman Arizona, a rarity in the desert.

California has mountains right up to the coast.

We left Flagstaff Az. yesterday morning and drove to Anaheim Ca. We drove through the Mohave Desert, it was a vast expanse of absolutly nothing, well except for the beautiful landscape. We stopped at a rest area, it was 106 degrees in the shade (but its a dry heat).

This morning we walked over to Disneyland and enjoyed the morning before the big crowds came in, we came back to the RV park for lunch, the kids are swimming now. We will go back to Disneyland later on.

We arrived before the volcano opened so we pulled over in this spot for breakfast. I was tempted to drive the road but was afraid we'd end up with no A/C's on top.

This is supposed to be the largest cross in the country.....it was very big. This was from the day before in Texas.

Inside of the volcano. The rim is 1400 feet across and 800 feet deep.

The Cadillac Ranch.

Its sunny in Texas.

It was hot in the Palo Dura Canyon, but its a dry heat.

The "Rig".

My first attempt at a panoramic view with the new camera, I almost got it.
This was from the top rim of the canyon.

Gracie named this one "Lizzie".

Jean didn't even freak out over the kids being close to the edge.

This was in the Ice Cave. The temp never gets over 31 degrees and the ice (the green stuff behind them) is approximately 20 feet thick.

I did better on this panarama of a small portion of the Painted Desert.

The Petrified Forest (I don't know why its so scared)

The Petrified Forest is 3500 feet above sea level (I think), but when it was a living forest, it was near sea level.

They said that 1 ton/month of material is stolen from the National Park. Joey tried to put this in his pocket but at 800 pounds/square foot, he couldn't pick it up.

It is hard to find wifi in the middle of nowhere.

We have been 2342 miles since we left home.

Tuesday, the 23rd, we went to Palo Dura Canyon, about 25 miles south of Amarillo. It is the second largest canyon in the US and it is breathtaking. Yesterday we went to the Bandera Volcano and Ice Cave in the Zuni Mountains of New Mexico and the Painted Desert and Petrified Forest in Arizona. The last two days have been incredible, words cant describe the beauty of this area of our country. Pictures don't do it justice either, but here's some to look at. Oh, we stopped at the Cadillac Ranch also.

We have been 1450 mile since we left home.

We started out today with breakfast in Arkansas, had lunch half way through Oklahoma, and finished with diner in Texas. We are in Amarillo for the night.

The western half of Arkansas was not as flat as the eastern half, in fact, we drove through the Ozark Mountains (home of the Daredevils). The Ozarks are not quite as tall as the Uwharrie mountains (in otherworks they are hills).

The eastern half of Oklahoma is much like wester Arkansas believe it or not. We ran into our first real traffic in Oklahoma City, nothing major, just a little slowdown. I would have to vote I-40 through Ok City as the worst stretch of road I've traveled in some time, it was so rough that I had to repair one of the roof A/C covers that had broken during all the bumping around.

Once we left Ok City, we started through the plains, it was just awsome. Being able to look out and see for 15 or 20 miles is incredible. There are few trees to block the view and it looks just like in the movies.

We shadowed the old Route 66 for most of the afternoon, glad we are on the big road as parts of Rt. 66 are narrow.

When we crossed into Texas the landscape changed from some trees to no trees, just miles and miles of open field.

There were a lot of windmills in Oklahoma. Take that OPEC.