Day 4 Monday 6/24

I can’t seem to sleep like I used to, the reason being: I had another early wake up, no one woke me up I just woke up by myself. Thought sadly I didn’t do much, but hey relaxing in the mornings seems like a good idea to me.

Well we all woke up in time, and so got ready to leave trying to stick as close to on time as we could. And well, we did. We left our camp before nine even hit us.

After about an hour of travel we decided stop at a camping world, we needed to get a few things. We left a little over a half an hour later. We had the things we needed so we went of again.

We were on the highway for a good long while before we got to a fuel stop at 12:50 and then while at the stop we had some lunch. We would be back on the road not even an hour later which meant more boring driving and watching the land run by.

In time we finally crossed into Texas, it was sort of fun watching and waiting for the phones to realize this and change the time.

As we drove we had to pass a few slightly interesting places. Don’t believe go onto a maps thing and look up Earth Texas. No joke, there is a town called Earth. And if you want more strange places try looking up the other plants names and even a few things from startrek, no joke there are cities and towns called that.

We arrived at our camp ground at 6:03, local time. And I say local time because we did pass into Texas as stated earlier so we are in yet another time slot. And let me tell you it WINDY and wamish hotish depending on your standing and weather tolerance. And the sad thing about a majority of Texas…the weather is mostly like this. And as a side note we have apparently gone 390 miles today. So that is what we can do when we only need to stop for gas, feels nice…and extremely boring.

Well anyways once we reached our camp ground for the night we plugged in the RV, unloaded the Van and got ready to go into town for some supplies. With supplies in hand we ventured back to the RV to finish up our dinner for the night and settle down a bit.

It has been a slow day, one with merely driving and the very few stops. But we are even closer to our goal. Our next day does not plan to be much different from one experienced today, but I have been wrong before. Only time will tell, so knock on wood, we’ll need it.

Typed June 24, 2013

Day 3 Sunday 6/23

Woke up extremely early this day, almost 6 on the nose. Why did I get up that early? Well I wanted to go for a jog, and I did making sure to bring one of the dogs along. Sadly the weather was so cold I didn’t get very far, or go for very long. I sort of hate that I couldn’t go for that long, but I couldn’t do much about it.

Well anyways I got to sit around for a few hours doing not much of anything while the rest of the family slept in and eventually woke up near eight. We packed up and got ready to go once all was up and done with morning rituals and all that.

We finally left camp around 9:20, for all the real good that did us. We apparently had to go back into the big hole in the ground, sorry the Grand Canyon. Sister and Nana had decided to forget a few things that they wanted to do, and since we apparently have the time dad decided it would be alright to go back in and go after said items. Not something I was actually looking forward to but hey, I’m stuck in the RV with the rest of them, it’s not like I have a complete choice I just had to suck it up and deal with it. Oh well.

We arrived at our first stop close to ten, it was sort of revisit but hey we got to see something new….if you can call it that. We got back on the road around a half hour later, still going through the park sadly we did have a few stops a view points for pictures and the like. I still it’s just a giant hole in the ground, a very big hole that is also very colorful and amazingly complex, but still a hole, or really a giant cut. But I Digress.

There was….a lot of stopping to look at things. It took us hours to get through it all, with mom and me sticking to the RV, her working a tad and me…a mix between falling asleep and trying to keep busy. I know, we are so proactive. But I’m generally of the mind set of seen one seen them all. Oh sure a lot of the stuff is cool and slightly interesting, but after a tad you get tired of looking at the same thing so that the picture savvy members of your family can take fifty photos of the same thing. I kid you not, they have taken over fifty photos of the same thing many times, just so that they could get different looks at it and different effects. But it is not my business to judge that so I just deal and silently complain…for the most part.

At one of the stops, I think one of the last ones we also stayed long enough to have lunch. The stop was at a sort of watchtower from the 1930s, it provided a nice view. Though sadly most of my mind was taken up with how I could use it one of the many stories I wright.

We finally got out of the park around 1:20, it sort of felt nice.

We had a scare during our drive, our door decided that it would pop open a tad. So we had to hold closed a bit and then do what we could to lock it, we can’t exactly stop and make sure it is closed all the way so that is the best we can do.

We in time had to stop for gas, near 2:55. Had to look a bit to find out, but we eventually found one and filled up. The road ahead was long, well of course it was. But anyways we traveled on highway for a the rest of the day. We all spent our time doing this and that, a few of us getting a nap in as we do.

But we had another fuel stop before we stopped, this one near 6:30, well actually 7:30 for we had passed into New Mexico by this point which means a time shift. We left not even ten minutes later.

We would arrive at our campground another hour later. We got ourselves situated and settled in for the night.

Day 2 Saturday 6/22

Wake up was early today, around seven to eight in the morning. We had a long breakfast with the relatives that we had stayed with, it was sort of a comfort for us to do that.

When we did leave it was close to 10:30. But we weren’t on the road long, we stopped around a half hour later at a small “ghost” town called Oatman, no Joke that is what it was called. We spent around an hour and a half there, walking through all of the stores. Bought a few things, took some pictures the usual. And then we were on the road again near 11:45, or something like that.

To actually move on we went through the only road the town had, which had a lot of Donkeys, thankfully the Jackasses didn’t impede us too badly, and I'm talking about the animal not the person alright so don't go attacking me. With through the town we had a windy drive up the hill.

We eventually get through the mountains/hills and back to a highway, oh thank you.

For a good while we are on said highway, then we come across our next fuel stop, at 12:40, sounds like lunch time to me. Though sadly it took as a bit just to be able to get some gas. Some of the drivers at the gas stop were impatient and decided it would be a good idea to try and block a few RVs and make it difficult for said RVs to both pull up as well as get out. Never a fun thing to have to deal with, but then again it was a Flying J so things like this happen, even if it is annoying.

Well, after we got that sorted out, we truly did indeed get some lunch. It was mostly what we could find around the RV, it seemed to have been good. But in time we finished our lunch and was back on the road near 1:15. More Driving, so much fun…

                                                                                                                                                       

We traveled in relative silence for a good while. To be honest it was uncomfortable, extremely so. But that is most likely do to the fact that I finished reading what I had to read and thus got bored…really bored.

But I eventually found a few things to do and settled in for the long ride ahead. It did hold me over until we arrived at our stop for the night, or day really. Our stop came around 4:45. But we didn’t stay to relax long. We plugged in the RV unloaded the car and got ready to leave in quick flash. Getting ready for a trip around the area. The area belonging to the Grand Canyon.

That is right, we stopped at the Grand Canyon, also known as a giant hole in the ground. As you can tell, I didn’t think all that much of our visit. It was long and according to different clocks it took us around five to six hours, a mix of walking and driving, and later having dinner and then a presentation. That presentation wasn’t the best and sort of ticked me and my dad off. But anyways we got back to the RV.

Once back we dealt with needed and well went about the night. But tomorrow starts anew and a full day of travel, and no real stops planned. So it should be an uneventful day, knock on wood.

Typed up June 22, 2013

Day 1 Friday 6/21

The first day of vacation is always a bit hectic. You have to run around the house to pack up whatever it is you are traveling in. For us, that means our RV. We’ve loaded this thing for so many trips it’s hard to count now, but for some reason, whenever we leave on vacation we worry more than normal and run around a tad more. That might be because we are going to be out for a good while longer that all other times we use the old bucket.

But I digress. We did have all sorts of things to worry about yes, but we did get out. It was near 4, but we did it. Though we didn’t go very far fast. We had a few stops to make first, and also to pick up another member of little group.

After that it was travel and after good time a stop at a gas station for, of course gas and a few food items. I sadly did not get the time on that one, but I can say it was close to seven.

I spent my time reading this and that, my mother sort of did the same thing and the other three…well they watched the road. And all for the rest of the drive, until we reached or destination around 11. Our stop for this day, the house of a relative in Arizona.

We did a quick set up, only power and then mostly powered off to bed. All in all, a boring and very normal first day of Vacation.

Typed up June 22, 2013

Before we start again.

Well it's that time of year again.  School is out, myself graduated and we are getting ready for our vacation. The plan is for a three week this time, and I plan to have a comment about every bit of it.
That's right, I plan on restarting this blog. I realize I did a horrible job at keeping it up last time, or at least posting it all. I actually did write up a good portion of what happened, but I never got around to posting any of it. I am hoping this time around, I will do a far better job and get around to posting all that I type.

My overall plan is to type as we travel, and when we cannot use my phone or some other note taking item to note down critical times when we do something. Hopefully this will allow me to provide a better time frame and follow through of what we are doing.

But now, that is all I have to say. So I hope you all join me and the family as we proceed through May Family Vacation 2013!