I think we are close to being ready. We have an ambitious two month road trip planned, already one hitch in the works, beginning in September.
Plan was to leave 9/1 and be back home close to 10/31. We're spending two nights on the road and camping for two nights to rest and regroup at John W. Kyle SP in MS. I made an error when looking at the calendar. I had us arriving a day later than we had considered, we decided to keep the dates because of the Labor Day requirement for three nights if we arrive a day early. We visited Oxford last fall, we're going to spend the free day in Tupelo, to complete our Elvis pilgrimage we began a couple of years ago.
Then we are onward to our first real stop, Little Rock. No reservation yet, discussion on how long to spend. I'm thinking four nights is plenty. We will be back to the area when we go all the way to CA in the spring.
The rest of the stops:
- Oklahoma City
- Amarillo, TX, use that as a place holder on the calendar but we're really going to be taking side trips to Route 66 on our way to
- Albuquerque, not sure if we're going to detour up to Santa Fe. Once again we might wait until spring
- El Paso
- Pecos, another place holder for our trip from NM to
- Dallas - Tickets to the State Fair so we have a window of 28 days to make our way to the big D
- Austin, we plan to be back in the spring for the Hill Country wild flowers and Blue Bonnets
- San Antonio
- Houson
- Lafayette
- Homeward with perhaps a few days in Atlanta
This is our first road trip with nothing more than a list of things to see and do in various cities and regions and NO RESERVATIONS!
I'm excited and nervous.
Looking forward to new adventures and new friends.
