Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:11:51 -0700
Reply-To: Richard Koerner <rjkinpb@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
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From: Richard Koerner <rjkinpb@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Subject: Re: Looking for trip planning suggestions
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Go to Buses by the Bridge at Lake Havasu; it's usually in January...must be on their website. You just might luck out with the dates. Then, south of there is Parker, Arizona; one of my favorites is River Island State Park--in fact went there last weekend. Basically, if you want warmer weather stay low in elevation but even then no guarantees--January temps can be all over the place in Arizona. Of course the South Rim of the Grand Canyon would offer some pretty spectacular scenery with powder snow on red rock. Plenty of Route 66 stuff to see, too. Funky things like the Meteor Crater east of Flagstaff, the Wigwam Motel in Holbrook. Check out a site called RoadtripsUSA http://www.roadtripusa.com/routes.html, good info on stuff to see and do in that area. Also, http://www.roadsideamerica.com/ is a lot of fun for offbeat stuff. The Southwest is BIG!
Rich
San Diego
--- On Fri, 10/28/11, Mark Tuovinen <aksyncronaut@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
From: Mark Tuovinen <aksyncronaut@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Looking for trip planning suggestions
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Friday, October 28, 2011, 12:08 PM
We are getting to closer to committing to our plan of traveling
the Southwest for approximately 4 weeks starting in mid-December. We are
planning on shipping our van to the Seattle area next month and flying down
to pick it up around December 15th. Several List Members have generously
offered a place to store the van until we arrive and I hope to make the
decision on which one will work best for all involved shortly. Once we
arrive at the van we will load it and hit the road as we have to pick up our
daughter at Humbolt State University on the 16th or 17th. We plan to travel
south from Humbolt as stops at either(or both) Van Cafe or GoWesty are in
order as the van needs new bumpers and maybe a few other items. From there
we plan on being somewhere in Arizona most likely Tucson, Scottsdale, or
Sedona by Christmas to be with family and/or friends. On the return leg of
the trip we have to drop our daughter back at Humbolt, our 9yr old son at an
airport for an escorted flight home, stash the van someplace in storage
until Spring, and get on a flight to Las Vegas for a Conference. This will
of course happen without a hitch as we all know that a Vanagon will never
let its operator down nor leave them stranded on the side of a highway. If
you were wandering the Southwest during this time of year where would you go
and what would you do? I am also looking for one or more books I have seen
mentioned on the List in the past that identified camping sites(BLM and
others) etc. If anyone knows the titles of any of these books please let me
know so I can track them down more easily. I had them at one time but they
are lost to an old email address that i can no longer access. I would love
to meet up along the way with some of the List members that I only know by
their Posts so if anyone is interested drop me an email and we will see if
the schedule works.
TIA
Mark in AK
`87 Westy Syncro
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