Our Trip Out West Begins

Friday
June 19, 2009

(Just a note that I had computer difficulty Saturday Morning when I was trying to post this entry, otherwise this would have been posted)

Wow, it’s been thirteen days since my last entry. Well to say the least Gina and I have been busy. After she finished with all her corn she went to Gulf shores, Alabama with all the girls of our extended family. I have been extremely busy at work in trying to get a lot of stuff done before we left on our vacation out west. Well that is where I want to start this entry. I’ll have to do a follow up entry about Gina’s trip to Gulf Shores.

I got off of work at noon on Thursday and helped Gina do laundry and then we got everything packed away for an early departure on this morning. Rickey & Dana arrived in Aransas Pass at 8:15 and we all sat down and ate this wonderful meal Gina had cooked all day. We had roast & gravy, broccoli, some of that fresh corn, with fresh hot bread. We were all hungry and there was just a little of the roast left over. We sat up late talking about the trip but finally went to bed around 11:30. Gina & I decided to let them have our bed and we would sleep in our truck. Our goal was to leave by six in the morning heading toward Albuquerque, New Mexico.

I got up at 4:30 and had a cup of coffee then jumped into the shower. Gina had gotten up by then and then did all her stuff inside while I got everything outside ready. We were all hooked up and in the truck at 6:15 and pulling out of the campground a few minutes later. This was going to be a very long and hard day since we knew we wanted to make it out of Texas at a minimum which was the reason for the very early start. Here we are getting started.

Go West Young Man!!



Rickey & Addison Enjoying the Scenery


Zoey needed some Loving

We made it to El Paso by five o’clock and I asked them all what they wanted to do, either we can stop for the night and drive to Albuquerque on Saturday or we could continue driving to Albuquerque today and not drive at all on Saturday. They all decided to continue driving so down the highway we continued. We did stop at the New Mexico welcome center for the traditional picture and picked up a few brochures before we continued down the highway.

Rickey & Dana


Here We Are With Our Babies


All Of Us


Angel & Zoey in Time Out


Addison asking What Do I Do now??


Gina is Unaware of the Sign

We made it to the campground at 10:30 but we got off the exit for it at 9:30. The campground is less than a half a mile away but me being the driver that I am got turned around and got back on the freeway and then had to do another 8 miles before I could turnaround and come back to the same exit that I had just got off at. The wind was blowing 35 to 40 miles per hour when we arrived and sand / dirt was blowing everywhere. We finally got inside around 11 o’clock and Gina made us all leftover roast sandwiches. We were all hungry and I believe anything would have tasted great but the roast was better tonight than last night. Just my opinion. Why is it that we learn these lesson in life and we say we not doing that again but then we do it again anyway. Gina & I know better than to travel in areas that we have never been at night and we always pull in somewhere while it’s still daylight but here we go again not learning our lesson but we got here safe and we had a nice long drive.


Total miles driven today 1007 miles, 7.8 miles to the gallon. The best thing about today was we didn’t have to stop for diesel and I was very happy to get 7.8 miles to the gallon.


Until tomorrow, Gina & I hope everyone has a pleasant and wonderful day, enjoying what our Father has so graciously blessed us with.