Pumpkin

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No place like home

We arrived home yesterday afternoon from our motor home trip. We saw a lot of cool things in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and even a little of Oklahoma. We were glad when we saw the sand dunes and wind mills near El Centro welcoming us home to California.

Tucson

We spent the last few days of our trip in the Tucson area. Yesterday we visited Old Tucson which is a western movie lot that was used for hundreds of movies and tv shows until the 1980's. It is like an old ghost town. Today we took a tour of the Biosphere. It is really something to see. There is a real rain forest in there, a beach, a desert, plants, animals, machinery, living quarters and everything necessary to allow eight people to be completely self sufficient, sealed up for two and a half years.

Oct. 20- On the Road Again

After spending 5 days with Steve and Sudi we on our way to our next adventure-Biosphere 2 in Arizona. It is mostly flat boring land between Benbrook and the Biosphere, not much to see. We did run into a little lightning and thunderstorm today entering Deming, New Mexico. Tomorrow we will reach Tuson and spend a few days seeing Old Tuson and the Biosphere.

Vegan food in Benbrook

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Today Steve, Sudi, Cindy and I went to a little country fair in Benbrook. It was free. Then we went to the only vegan restaurant in this area called the Spiro Diner and bakery. The food was pretty good but the service was slowww. Then we went to our motorhome and played some games where it's camped at Benbrook Lake. We cooked a nice vegan dinner that was better than the restaurant!

Texas State Fair

Sudi and Steve took us to the Texas State Fair in Dallas today. We ate some healthy food. There sure was a lot of deep fried food; even deep fried latte.

Amarillo

We are about 450 miles away from our final destination. We will arrive in Benbrook tomorrow.
Tonight we are spending the night in a Love's truck stop just outside of Amarillo, Texas. It was getting really foggy when we got to Amarillo. We had dinner at the Subway here. Trucks pass 15 feet away from our side window one after the other. Oh well, we save 30 bucks from not having to stay at a campground. When Cindy is driving I enjoy listening to podcasts.

From Zion, Bryce and North Rim to Benbrook

We have finished vacationing in Zion, Bryce Canyon and the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. We had a great time exploring the national parks. It was cold and dry and high, though. Now we are almost to Albuguerque, New Mexico on our way to Texas to visit Steve and Sudi. While there we are camping at Lake Benbrook. The top picture is when we passed the Colorado River in Arizona.

Bryce Canyon National Park

We left Zion National Park this morning exiting through a one mile tunnel built in 1930. It's not wide enough for two way traffic with a motorhome so they have to stop traffic and allow the motorhome to go through down the middle. Three hours later we arrived at Bryce and are dry camping with no hookups and it may snow tonight! We drove our car to see some of the viewpoints. Bryce has hoodoos which are eroded columns of rock on mountains. Most are red and make for fatastic scenery. Tonight we are going to a ranger talk and they will be putting telescopes out side for us to see the stars and stuff.

2nd day in Zion

Today we did a lot of hiking in Zion before it started to rain! Then we went in to town to walk around. It is nice but mostly touristy with lots of gift shops and restaurants. Tomorrow we head for Bryce Canyon National Park. To get there we have to drive our motor home through a 1 mile tunnel that was built in 1930!

Day 3 Zion

We reached Zion National Park in Utah. It has beautiful mountain peaks. They have a shuttle that takes you on a loop to the various sights. We saw a few today and will see the rest tomorrow. We thought we could camp inside the park but the campgrounds were full, which surprised us because it is off season. We are camped at a private park in Springdale, a quaint little town like Mayberry, just outside Zion. The weather was perfect today, sunny and not too hot. We think we will take Mona inside the park tomorrow as long as she promises she won't bother the deer. We understand they can be quite aggressive.

Day 2 Las Vegas

We spent all day in Las Vegas and started off the day at the Liberace museum which contains a beautiful collection of his pianos, cars and wardrobe. We saw the gardens in the Bellagio Hotel then walked way down to the Stratosphere and went up the tower (but passed on the rides). We then rode the monorail back to the Bellagio, where we had parked. There is a Whole Foods market on the south ene of the strip and we picked some vegan ready made dinner and returned to the rv park.

Day 1 RV Trip Oct. 4

We're on our way to Texas to see Steve and Sudi. We will stop on the way to visit Zion, Bryce Canyon and the north rim of the Grand Canyon. Today we had a windy trip to Las Vegas. Mona thought she was going to drive.