2017 Road Trip Summary

We got back to home base the very end of October and have been busy doing "stuff". This has not included hiking as I'm trying to get my cardio and knee into shape. I'm really close so I'm expecting January and February, prime hiking in AZ, to be filled with lots of good hikes.

Now it's time for the annual Road Trip Summary. The highlight, of course, was spending lots of time with the grandchildren. We did, of course, enjoy the intermixed sightseeing as logged here. The fifth wheel logged about 4,650 miles on this trek and the truck not much more. We drove the car separately on this one because we knew we were going to be doing a lot of driving between stops and the big truck isn't ideal for that. As predicted, we put 13,000 miles on the car so that means we saved driving the "big beast" 8,000 miles. We visited 29 National Park Service sites (Parks, Monuments, Historic Sites, Reserves, etc) and toured 3 state Capitols. It was a very fun and memorable trip.

Here is the annual map. This is now year 3 on this one. Follow the orange line starting in Phoenix, over to California and up. If you are curious, scroll down the blog to the 2014 year end summary for the previous 5 years route map. Remember, you can always click on pictures to see them larger.