On Saturday morning, July 12th, we (Claudia, Mark, Ryan and Holly) embarked on a 10-day, 2,500-mile road trip that will take us eventually from Mesa, AZ, to Colorado Springs, CO, Salt Lake City, UT, and Jerome, ID, in our trusty Toyota Sequoia that had over 117,000 miles of on the road experience (when we started). Eric had to stay home to meet the needs of his Real Estate clients, but keeps in touch daily by cell phone.
We left Mesa just after 5:00 am Mountain Standard Time (only Arizona is on that time this time of year) and arrived in Colorado Springs at Heidi's home just after 9:00 pm Mountain Daylight Time. We drove north from Mesa to Payson and Heber before turning east on I-40 just outside Holbrook, AZ. From there we drove to Albuquerque (just over half way) before catching I-25 to drive through Santa Fe and on north to Colorado Springs.
It was Mark's first visit to New Mexico. He had been in 45 of the United States, but never in the state next door. Now, only Vermont, North Dakota, Alaska and Hawaii are on Mark's bucket list.
We ate breakfast at the Knotty Pine Cafe in Payson (great down-home cooking), lunch in at Subway in Santa Fe (the normal franchise stuff) and an A&W truck stop in Walsenburg, CO (quick and easy).
We took the following photo of Ryan and Holly in Continental Divide, NM.
While we stopped for gas at Continental Divide, we saw this amazing vehicle. The fellow who owned this big tricycle said it was powered by a Chevy 350 cubic inch engine that generated 380 horsepower. Wow! He had flown to Kansas City to pick it up from the manufacturer and was riding it back to Southern California. Maybe we should get one for Claudia for our next road trip!
If you want to follow our vacation in real-time, you may want to sign in to Twitter.com and follow Mark's updates @mgd. You can send us messages there as well.
We will post road trip photos on Mark's Flickr photo set.
More later!
We left Mesa just after 5:00 am Mountain Standard Time (only Arizona is on that time this time of year) and arrived in Colorado Springs at Heidi's home just after 9:00 pm Mountain Daylight Time. We drove north from Mesa to Payson and Heber before turning east on I-40 just outside Holbrook, AZ. From there we drove to Albuquerque (just over half way) before catching I-25 to drive through Santa Fe and on north to Colorado Springs.
It was Mark's first visit to New Mexico. He had been in 45 of the United States, but never in the state next door. Now, only Vermont, North Dakota, Alaska and Hawaii are on Mark's bucket list.
We ate breakfast at the Knotty Pine Cafe in Payson (great down-home cooking), lunch in at Subway in Santa Fe (the normal franchise stuff) and an A&W truck stop in Walsenburg, CO (quick and easy).
We took the following photo of Ryan and Holly in Continental Divide, NM.
While we stopped for gas at Continental Divide, we saw this amazing vehicle. The fellow who owned this big tricycle said it was powered by a Chevy 350 cubic inch engine that generated 380 horsepower. Wow! He had flown to Kansas City to pick it up from the manufacturer and was riding it back to Southern California. Maybe we should get one for Claudia for our next road trip!
If you want to follow our vacation in real-time, you may want to sign in to Twitter.com and follow Mark's updates @mgd. You can send us messages there as well.
We will post road trip photos on Mark's Flickr photo set.
More later!
