Go West Young Man (and Woman)

We leave Wednesday morning for a driving trip to the West Coast.

We're driving to Pasadena where we'll spend three nights staying at the home of Betty's older brother (he's in Massachusetts celebrating the birth of his newest grandson). We plan to do the Hollywood tourist scene.

Then we'll drive up the coast highway to San Francisco for three nights. One day we'll do a walking tour of Fisherman's Wharf, Ghiardelli Square, etc. The next day will be a driving trip to Golden Gate park, across the GG bridge, the Marin Headlands and dinner with a Navy friend who lives in Mill Valley (where M.A.S.H.s BJ lived).

After San Fran, well drive up the Northern California coast highway to our blogging friends TJ and Mark who have a cattle ranch. We'll spend three nights with them and TJ has already promised us a steak dinner -- yummm!

Following our visit with them we'll drive up the Oregon coast highway to Hillsboro, a suburb of Portland for three nights to visit with friends from our church here who are starting a new church there.

From Hillsboro we'll drive East to Pendleton, Oregon for the Pendleton Roundup, one of the three oldest, major rodeos - Calgary Stampede, Cheyenne Frontier Days and Pendleton Roundup. Pendleton is also home to Pendleton Wool products. Hopefully they will have an outlet store.

Then we'll drive to Boise, Idaho for three nights. One of the attractions in Boise is a Cabellas store. I'm a big Cabellas fan.

From Boise, we'll drive down through Utah and spend one night in Orem which is South of Salt Lake City.

The next day we'll drive down to Zion National Park for three nights. Then on to Bryce Canyon National Park for two nights and finally to Moab for three nights to see Canyonlands National Park (and possibly Arches National Park).

We'll stop at Durango, Colorado for one night on the way home.

It will be a long trip, but we're looking forward to seeing as much of God's creation as we can and visiting with good friends.

I'll try to do posts as we go along. You can also check our photo site to see all of our photos: http://danandbetty.smugmug.com

Be good and stay out of the cookie jar.

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