Well, we’ve been waiting and looking forward to this trip for a long time. After 13 years of motorhoming we’re finally taking the ‘big trip’. We don’t know why we’ve waited this long - maybe just waiting until the gas prices went up - and right now they’re higher than they’ve ever been. Oh well! At least since we traded motorhomes in November we’re now using regular un-leaded gasoline instead of the really high priced diesel.
We left home Friday the 9th, but spent Mother’s Day weekend camping at the lake with some of the kids & grandkids. Then Monday the 12th, we went to Chatsworth, GA and spent the night and visited with LaVerne‘s sister Marilyn‘s family. We didn’t really get started on our Alaska trip until Tuesday, May 13th.
The first couple of days were just traveling - we took I-75 north out of Georgia, I-24W in Chattanooga, TN through Nashville to Gilbertsville, KY. We spent the first night at Kentucky Dam Village State Park at the north end of Kentucky Lake. On Wednesday we continued on I-24W through Paducah, KY and across the Ohio River into Illinois. Then it was I-57N to I-64W to St Louis where we picked up I-70W.
At the end of two days of driving we arrived at the Arrow Rock State Historical Site in Arrow Rock, MO - about 13 miles north of I-70 at Boonville. This is a place we stayed at back in 2006 when we followed the Lewis & Clark Trail and we liked it a lot. This place really has a lot of colorful birds - Northern Cardinals, Baltimore Orioles, Indigo Buntings, and American Goldfinches. They are all in their breeding colors and it is a techicolor show when several of them are on and around our feeders at the same time.
We will be here until Monday, May 19 and then we’ll head out again.
We left home Friday the 9th, but spent Mother’s Day weekend camping at the lake with some of the kids & grandkids. Then Monday the 12th, we went to Chatsworth, GA and spent the night and visited with LaVerne‘s sister Marilyn‘s family. We didn’t really get started on our Alaska trip until Tuesday, May 13th.
The first couple of days were just traveling - we took I-75 north out of Georgia, I-24W in Chattanooga, TN through Nashville to Gilbertsville, KY. We spent the first night at Kentucky Dam Village State Park at the north end of Kentucky Lake. On Wednesday we continued on I-24W through Paducah, KY and across the Ohio River into Illinois. Then it was I-57N to I-64W to St Louis where we picked up I-70W.
At the end of two days of driving we arrived at the Arrow Rock State Historical Site in Arrow Rock, MO - about 13 miles north of I-70 at Boonville. This is a place we stayed at back in 2006 when we followed the Lewis & Clark Trail and we liked it a lot. This place really has a lot of colorful birds - Northern Cardinals, Baltimore Orioles, Indigo Buntings, and American Goldfinches. They are all in their breeding colors and it is a techicolor show when several of them are on and around our feeders at the same time.
We will be here until Monday, May 19 and then we’ll head out again.
2 comments:
This is pretty cool. Maybe the pictures will all show up now because some don't on e-mail.
How's the weather been. Looks like some pretty bad stuff where ya'll have headed.
06/06/2008 David & LaVerne, I am so glad you are taking us along in pictures with you. I have seen the Smokies, the Rockies and the mountains of Arkansas but none are as magnificient as these Canadian ones! We wish to dickens that we were with you guys! Diane
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