The Final Post

So I am shedding a tear as this will be my final post on the TaylorRVTrip.  I hope everyone enjoyed it and I did not put to many people to sleep.  Well here are the stats for the trip.  We were on the road for 55 days (June 4th - July 28th).  We traveled through 38 states (CA, OR, WA, ID, MT, WY, SD, IA, NE, MO, IL, IN, KY, OH, WV, PA, NJ, NY, CT, RI, MA, NH, ME, DE,VA, MD, NC, SC, GA, AL, MS, LA, TX, NM, CO, UT, AZ, NV).  We traveled 11047.7 miles.  We saw many great National Parks, State Parks and other wonderful sites and cities.  This was definitely a trip that I do not think any of us will ever forget.  Till our next great journey, this is GOODBYE!!!!!!!

Map after day 1 of our trip

Map after day 55 of our trip

The path we took

Day 55 : We did it!!!!! 55 days in an RV and we all survived

After 55 days in an RV traveling around the US we arrived home today at about 2pm.  It will definitely be a trip to remember.  I will publish stats tomorrow.  Time for a good nights sleep in my bed.  Life is good!!!

Day 54 : All good things must come to an END

So it is hard to believe that this is our last full day of our epic journey.  I am definitely a little sad that is must come to an end but unfortunately I am not filthy rich and we have to go back to work.  So today we spent most of the day hanging out at the beach, where the girls hunted for sand dollars and made bull whips our of Kelp.  It was a very nice and relaxing day and just the right way to end 54 days on the road.  Tomorrow we will be getting up and packing things in for the final time as we will be traveling home.  We have about a 3 1/2 hour trip to Folsom so we will probably be arriving around 1pm.  Tomorrow or Monday I will fill everyone in on the details of what we cover in this epic journey.  Thanks to everyone who has been reading the blog as we made our way around the US these last 2 months.  I am almost as sad about ending the blog as I am about the trip ending.  It has actually been fun logging for everyone this wonderful journey my family has taken.  Well I hope everyone has enjoyed my monologues and I have not bored you to much.  Adiós

Day 53 : To our final Destination

Well this epic journey is almost over.  Today we headed to our final destination before heading home on Sunday.  Our final destination is Marina CA which is a little north of Monterey Bay CA.  We decided to make a quick detour to another winery that was recommended to us when we were at the Tobin James winery in Paso Robles.  We headed up Highway 1 to Sans Sebastian to Hearst Estate Winery.  We have to say we enjoyed several of their wines and bought a half a case.  We are an easy sale for wineries that have good wine.  After our wine tasting, we headed to Highway 101 to head up coast to Marina.  Colleen absolutely refused to allow me to take Highway 1 the whole way and after the episode in St Louis, I did not argue with her to much.  We did stop by the coast to take a quick jaunt on the beach before heading north which was quite nice.  We arrived at our RV site in Marina around 3pm and got settled in.  The RV resort is right next to the beach path so we took a hike to the beach to enjoy the beautiful and amazingly tranquil beach in Marina.  For a good while we were the only ones on the beach for a good 300 yards.  I am still amazed how cold it is on the coast, as we traveled north and got on Highway 101 the temperature rose by probably 25-30 degrees and as soon as we got back on the coast the temperature drop again to the mid 60s.  Weather is an amazing thing that I will probably never understand, but neither do most meteorologists.   Well we will being resting here for two nights before we make our trek home to Folsom on Sunday.

Beautiful CA coast, too bad the water is so cold!!!

No it is not Bo Derek, it is Mel

The Taylor beach babes

Day 52 : A little R & R in Morro Bay

So today was a nice relaxing day in Morro Bay.  We slept in a little till about 8:30am which has been sleeping in on this trip.  Then we had breakfast and took a walk around the bay and visited the Morro Bay museum of Natural History which explained the history of the bay here.  After that we came back to our site and played some cards and hung out in the wonderful cool weather till dinner where we headed down to the Bayside Cafe and had dinner.  After dinner we walked around the tide pools since it was low tide and harassed some crabs.  Any time you moved a rock 20 or 30 crabs would go scurrying across the beach hoping not to be bird food.  Tomorrow we head up coast a few hours to Marina around the Monterey Bay area. 

Basically the best view we got of Morro Rock

Cool Rock we found while exploring Tide Pools

Mr Crabs

Day 51 : From hell to heaven in a day

So this morning we got up early to leave the hell on earth in the Mojave Desert.  We were up at 6am packing things up to be gone by 7am and at 7am when we left it was over 90 degrees already.  It took us probably 5 hours to get out of the Mojave desert and we have no desire to go back.  Death Valley will be one National Park we will not plan on visiting unless it is the dead of winter.  In our travels through the desert we passed a huge Wind Mill farm, must have been a 1000 wind mills, at least California is trying to be green.  There were more Wind Mills in that one farm than I saw throughout the rest of the US on our trip.  I think we probably saw 100 at the most in all the other states we passed through.  So on our way to Morro Bay we pass through Paso Robles a big wine area (we love wine).  So we decided we had time to stop at two wineries and chose Tobin James and J Lohr.  They both had some really good wine so we ended up with about a case of wine (Tobin James was better of the two) and headed out to Morro Bay.  When we arrived the temperature was about 65 degrees and it was wonderful.  Even though it was quite foggy (we only have seen half of Morro Rock) it was wonderful compared to Needles.  Colleen and I took a walk around the bay and had a wonderful, peaceful and COOL evening in Morro Bay.  This is a beautiful area and look forward to a day of exploring tomorrow.

Day 50 : A day at the River in Hell

So I can not understand why anyone would live in the desert, sorry for those in Phoenix that includes you too.  So it was over 100 degrees most of the day and right now at 8:30pm it is still 97.8 degrees outside.  If there was not a very refreshing river right next to us we would be out of here.  The kids spent almost all day in the river and we have some very nice neighbors in our cove.  They brought two jet skis with them and allowed the girls to go out with them a couple of times.  But I still have to say I am very happy that we are heading to the Pacific coast tomorrow where the high is showing 67 degrees so from one extreme to the other.  But it is much easier to warm up than cool off, my wife only allows me to take off so much clothing to cool off (probably a good thing she has those rules).  Well the end is coming on us fast only 5 more days and we will be home.  Sorry for the lack of pictures but nothing to exciting to take pictures of.  Till Mañana.