We have just returned from a month-long road trip thru the Southwest US.
Before I start with the details of the trip and post a big pile of photos, let's talk about "why".
We (Janice and I) have been talking about a Road Trip for several years, once we noticed that we knew people in many of the states around the perimeter of the US, including Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, and more. But that trip will have to wait.
This is the first time in many years, and perhaps ever, that both of us have had the flexibility to take off for an entire month. In past years, at least one of us has had a full time, "regular" job, where you get a max of 2 or even 3 weeks off, and other entanglements (like dogs, church choir, and other "Obligations") prevented us from just taking off.
Not this year. Janice negotiated all of December "off" and Brad is on month-to-month contracts, so the time was right. Since it is an even year, that typically meant Christmas in Louisiana, so we combined the long-desired Road Trip with Christmas with family in Louisiana.
The rough outline was intended to be a week in southern California, another week in Arizona and New Mexico, a week in Texas, a week in Louisiana with Family and then Banzai home to get back to work on January 3rd, 2017. The astute reader will notice that there are 4 weeks accounted for before the drive home, so we fudged the timing a little. Also, the Original Plan was to leave the Saturday after Thanksgiving, which would have made 5 weeks and a day. As it happened, we left on December 2nd, and returned home on Jan 1, making 4 weeks and 2 days, and traveled 6400 miles.
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