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Guess what we did?
We had made plans to have my nephew, Travis, stay with us for a week or two this summer and had arranged for us to pick him up by driving like crazy on Monday, sleeping at their house that night, then leaving the next morning to be home Tuesday night (typically 13-14 hour drive for us.) We had the kids draw straws to see who got to go with me because I wanted to take the gas efficient Rav4 and not everyone would fit. I took the others (and let them skip school for the day) to Elitches last month. Lucky for Travis, he ended up getting a free ride to camp but it was scheduled right in the middle of his arranged trip to our house. It all worked out and we changed dates to July when Bill – Mike’s dad, Travis’ grandpa- will drive him out. This left us with Sebastien and Piper having no big trip. I asked them what they wanted to do – go to Elitches with me, road trip still (only one day-no hotel) or something else. They decided road trip; just drive around anywhere. I figured I’d take them to New Mexico, have lunch, then come home. Sunday night I went to print out Mapquest (in case our Tom Tom GPS failed) to Sante Fe or Albuquerque and looked closer at the map. Guess what? We could go the the top of New Mexico, Cut across to Dumas (Dumb Ass as we affectionately referred to it), Texas, straight up to Oklahoma then just a little further to Kansas and finally home. It was a big loop. So that’s what we did. No real destination, we just stopped at tons of gas stations and little obscure land marks. We did find that we followed to Santa Fe trail through a lot of our journey which Sebastien thought was great – he had learned about this in school.) Five states in one day - great times!
We had made plans to have my nephew, Travis, stay with us for a week or two this summer and had arranged for us to pick him up by driving like crazy on Monday, sleeping at their house that night, then leaving the next morning to be home Tuesday night (typically 13-14 hour drive for us.) We had the kids draw straws to see who got to go with me because I wanted to take the gas efficient Rav4 and not everyone would fit. I took the others (and let them skip school for the day) to Elitches last month. Lucky for Travis, he ended up getting a free ride to camp but it was scheduled right in the middle of his arranged trip to our house. It all worked out and we changed dates to July when Bill – Mike’s dad, Travis’ grandpa- will drive him out. This left us with Sebastien and Piper having no big trip. I asked them what they wanted to do – go to Elitches with me, road trip still (only one day-no hotel) or something else. They decided road trip; just drive around anywhere. I figured I’d take them to New Mexico, have lunch, then come home. Sunday night I went to print out Mapquest (in case our Tom Tom GPS failed) to Sante Fe or Albuquerque and looked closer at the map. Guess what? We could go the the top of New Mexico, Cut across to Dumas (Dumb Ass as we affectionately referred to it), Texas, straight up to Oklahoma then just a little further to Kansas and finally home. It was a big loop. So that’s what we did. No real destination, we just stopped at tons of gas stations and little obscure land marks. We did find that we followed to Santa Fe trail through a lot of our journey which Sebastien thought was great – he had learned about this in school.) Five states in one day - great times!
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That's sooo cool! I love the photos! Did you spend some time at the Hugoton Poo??? : )
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