Wrapping it up....

For the most part, marathon driving across the united states on interstates is pretty uneventfull and boring, so I'll keep it brief. We made if from Pharr to Pheonix in 3 days. About 1200 miles. We did manage to get some toursting in in West Texas, at the Sonoma Caverns. Pretty interesting.

Natural erosion of the limestone...  cool!

We met up with some of my family in Phoenix for New Years, had a good couple days hanging out, did a little work on the Donkey. At this point we picked up an extra passenger, my 14 year old son. He earned the knickname 'the thing that sleeps in the van' before too long because thats pretty much all he did.






After Pheonix we headed north to Flagstaff and then spent part of a day Touring the south rim of the Grand Canyon.

Next, we had accommodations arranged to spend a week in Vegas, but because we got to Pheonix so quick we were ahead of schedule for Vegas. We happen to have a friend in LA, so we cruised over there for a couple days. 


On the way we stopped just north of Barstow to check out the 'Ghost Town' of Calico. It's a national park, and was about what you'd expect in a park. We did a tunnel tour, and it was pretty cool. Always amazes me what people can accomplish in the pursuit of money. I seem to have misplaced my pics from in the tunnels. Darn.

 This was a building built with glass jars. Not really related to Calico, just neat. And weird?









We made it to LA that evening, It was quite a bit warmer than Texas and Arizona. We did some touristy stuff, Mann Chinese theater, Hollywood sign and the walk of stars or whatever that thing was.

One of my all time favorite movies!! Yippee Ki Yay!

About as close as you can drive to the Hollywood Sign.

After that, we bactracked to Vegas.....