[font=" comic sans ms" ]Road Trip 2003 is about to be launched! Trailer is packed and ready to go ...
We re leaving tomorrow for 22 days through the beautiful[/font][font=" comic sans ms" ] HOT[/font] [font=" comic sans ms" ] southwest.
Going to spend some time with relatives in Colorado as well as see some great sites ~ Mesa Verde NP, Arches NP, Canyonlands NP, Grand Canyon....
See you all sometime after the 22nd of August!
campincrazy ~ really looking forward to those margaritas ~ see you in OK!! [:)][/font]
KellyEnjoy your trip. Can you believe it is here? A year of planning! Maybe we will see you along the way! Take care.
Mary
KellyKelly,
Have a good safe trip...
KellyHave a safe and fun trip[:)]
angelsmom10
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Have a safe and fun trip[:)]
Ditto ... Drive carefully, enjoy a lot ! [;)]
KellyHave a great time and stay cool and save!
KellyLooking forward to hearing how it went, have fun.
KellySo close, and yet so far... you ll ALMOST make it to Nick-Neff-Cough Country. Just think, another two days on the road, and you d be in da Redwoods, kiddo! [;)]
Yo, Kelly--- have a wonderful trip! Give us a run-down of the highlights when you get back.
KellyHey Kelly! Take some pics for us. We all want to see the trip.
You go girl!
StarryartOff you go! Don t lose any kids in the Grand Canyon like the Brady Bunch!
Ab Diver s right, had you planned your trip correctly [;)], you could have joined us at our Yosemite rally!
Anyway, have fun and drive safe. We ll see you on the other side of the moon. [:D]
KellyKelly Have a great trip. Doug is going to be on your trail so keep moving.
KellyI get to meet Minn Kelly! Yahoo!
Anyone else who wants to join up at Lake Murray in Oklahoma on the weekend of August 15th (forcast is 150 degrees F) is welcome to join us!
~Texas Kelly
CampinCrazy[font=" comic sans ms" ]Did you say 150??? Maybe we ll head north sooner!! LOL
Greetings from Blanding UT (I think it might be close to 150 here!) Are enjoying Road Trip 2003 immensely ~ and haven t lost any chirren yet ~ did lose 7 hours of travel time in Grand Island NE waiting for the axle on our PU to be repaired ... it was replaced shortely before we left and apparently the inner bearing on one side wasn t greased properly (enough??) and burned up! Made me cry to see my baby carted away on a flat bed!!
Spent several days in Denver with family and then moved on to enjoy our time at Mesa Verde NP. On our way now to Moab!
Catch you all when I get back!
....Kelly (who can t wait to taste TX Kelly s margaritas!)[/font]
KellyHey!!! Hope you are having a great time!!! Don t want to rub it in but we had a great time in PA, you should have been there.[:D]
KellyMy outside thermometer (currently in the shade) shows 110 degrees. I feel soooo sorry for the kids already in school and riding their bikes home! Yeah, Rah, Texas!
KellyKelly,
It s 109 over here where I work in Mesquite. Don t you love TX summers?
KellyTrlrboy,
My parents live in Mesquite & my sister graduated from Mesquite High. Small world.
Kelly
Quotepent several days in Denver with family and then moved on to enjoy our time at Mesa Verde NP. On our way now to Moab
Oh man, DH would be soooo jelous!! [:D]
Have a safe trip!
KellyI met MN Kelly! We all caught up with each other at Lake Murray State Park in Oklahoma. Kelly and her family just LOVED the 100+ degree weather! At least we had water s edge sites and spent most of the weekend in the water. Kelly is wonderful, her husband a sweetie, and the kids all had a blast together.
Much fun was had by all. Sounds like Kelly is due back home on Thursday, after 3 weeks on the road with 4 kids. God bless her soul - she still had a wicked sense of humor!
Next year lets do it in cooler weather!!
KellyWelcome home whenever you get here Kelly! Hope you guys had a great time. But now I m sure you have a better understanding of why I moved here from Texas! Hope the rest of the trip is going ok and can t wait to hear all about it.
mrsa1113[font=" comic sans ms" ]I m Back!! [:D]
We had a great time! Loved meeting TX Kelly and her family...and really enjoyed the blue margaritas ... thanks to trlrboy for the wonderful recipe!! They sure went down nicely in that TX heat. (btw ~ the KS heat was far worse than Texas!)
The second big adventure of the trip happened just before we hooked up with Kelly ... we were cruising down I-40 and ds says " dad, it feels wobbly back here." DH looks at the trailer ~ looks good ~ tells ds not to worry. Two minutes later BANG ... there goes the right rear wheel OFF the Suburban. Down the ditch, bounces off a fence, back up the ditch, across two lanes of traffic, throught the median, across two more lanes of traffic, only to be lost in the other ditch!!! Quite the fireworks show as we traveled across both lanes of the freeway before coming to a rest on the shoulder. YIKES!
Four hours later we finally made it to a hotel. The tow driver pulled some strings with the dealer and we were back on the road by noon the next day. Fortunately (amazingly) the only damage to the TV was the wheel and the brakes ... no frame or axle damage.
Full report to follow ~ just got home and I need to do some laundry and get some sleep! Good to be back.[/font]
KellyWow [jaw dropping as I read] glad you guys made it home!
KellyBet if DS ever mentions " wobbly" again, the car will be at the side of the road at first possibly opportunity. [;)]
gsm x2
gsm x2
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Bet if DS ever mentions " wobbly" again, the car will be at the side of the road at first possibly opportunity. [;)]
gsm x2
[font=" comic sans ms" ]Funny you should say that ... ds spent the rest of the trip telling dh what to do next time he says that! LOL [;)][/font]
gsm x2
QuoteBet if DS ever mentions " wobbly" again, the car will be at the side of the road at first possibly opportunity.
How come we always discount what our kids say? We do that same thing, then when you hear the " crunch," you holler at them for not telling you, or being louder or more insistent when they tell you.
KellyKelly-- glad you are back safe, sound, and in (relatively speaking) one piece. [:o]
We missed you at Yosemite this last weekend.... would that it were possible you could have made it. Hey, there s already talk about a repeat rally next year at the same location. Mark it on your calender--- that s an NNC order. [;)]