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  • Caribbean Islands
  • England and France
 
 2006
  • Ixtapa, Mexico
  • RV North Prairies
  • Ixtapa / Puerto Vallarta
 
 2005
  • Cabo San Lucas
  • RV Great Basin
 
 2004
  • Puerto Vallarta
  • RV Southwest
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 2003
  • Guadeloupe
  • RV Northwest
  • RV Yellowstone
  • Fiji via Hawaii
 

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Susie

 
 2004
  • New Year's
  • Thanksgiving
  • Christmas Ski Bachelor
 
 2003
  • Gramma Visit
  • Christmas Ski Whistler
 

 

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Mary Jane and Granny and Susie
      RV Travel around the Great Basin

      

October - November 2005

 
 
A month-long trip of 3735 miles circling the Great Basin . . .
 
 

 

to the Avenue of the Giants

 

in the Redwoods

of Northern California

 

 

       
       
       
       

south to Yosemite National Park in the Sierras

       

California Ground Squirrel

       
   
       

El Capitan

Half Dome

       
       
The Ahwahnee Hotel
       

Lunch time with Granny

at the best table ~

by the big window at the end

   

of the Ahwahnee Dining Room

   
       
       

then south to Needles and

on to

old Route 66

       
 

steep and winding

in western Arizona

       
       

narrow sharp curves

for an RV

       
       
       

       
 

Cholla

 
   
       

to

Grand Canyon National Park Arizona

South Rim

       
   

Painted Lady

       
       

       
       
       
       

up to Glen Canyon and Lake Powell on the Arizona-Utah border

       

       
       
       
       

then northwest to Great Basin National Park and the Lehman Caves

 

in eastern Nevada

 
       
       
formation in Lehman Caves

Wheeler Peak of Great Basin NP

       
       

       

and across the Great Basin of Western Utah and Nevada

where north-south valleys and mountain ranges

alternate in a corduroy-like pattern

  in what is called Basin and Range 

       

       
       
       
       

and finally, encountering a foot of snow in southern Oregon

       

the RV finally ready to leave, with chains and roof swept to get the slideout in

       
       

       
 
 
 
 

 

       
       

 
           
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