The Plan

I've got most of my clothes packed and thought I would take a few minutes and fill everyone in on the order of places we'll be stopping. The first leg will be short, just to get a jump start on the journey. We'll be leaving tomorrow night (Friday, June 12) after I get home from work, change clothes, and make sure everything is loaded up, and will stop for the night at the Fairfield Inn near the Nashville, TN airport. The next morning, we'll head through Memphis, Little Rock, and across Texas (through Dallas and Fort Worth) and stop again for the night at a hotel in Sweetwater, TX. After that, we'll be hitting the following locations in this order:

1. Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico
2. Gallup, New Mexico (overnight in a hotel on historic Route 66)
3. The Grand Canyon (North Rim), Arizona
4. Anaheim and Los Angeles, CA (Disneyland!)
5. Big Sur area, California
6. Yosemite National Park, CA
7. San Francisco, CA
8. Napa Valley, CA
9. Redwoods National Park, CA
10. Portland, OR and the Columbia River Gorge

And all points in between! (Yes, I convinced Jessie to stop long enough in Roswell, NM so I can get a picture of a real live extra-terrestrial or a real UFO!)