Holiday 2006/2007

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What follows is a list of the sites stopped at along the way on this trip. Look above for links to our other Vacation Journals.

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Our Holiday 2006/2007 vacation was a road trip, destination: Sun City West, Arizona for Christmas with the Rinders and Albuquerque, New Mexico for New Year's with the Lundys. We nicknamed it the "what else can happen?" trip.

Friday, December 22nd: Set out at 5:00 in the morning, and reached Weatherford, Oklahoma that night.

Saturday, December 23rd: Continued onto Gallup, New Mexico.

Sunday, December 24th: Continued onto Sun City West, Arizona, home of Rachel's parents, Ron & Linda Rinder. Also in town were Rachel's sister (Vicki) and her family Josh, Ryan, Corinne, and unborn baby Fisher.

Monday, December 25th: We spent Christmas day with Rachel's family. Presents and wrappings and batteries, oh my!

Tuesday, December 26th: We followed Rachel's family out to San Diego, where we visited the San Diego Zoo. We spent the night in Oceanside, California.

Wednesday, December 27th: Something the kids have wanted to do for a very long time, we visited Legoland California today. Yes, they have an amusement park and yes, it's made partially of legos. It was a lot of fun, but it sure was windy and chilly that day.

Thursday, December 28th: We were planning on visiting Disneyland this day, but decided to cut the vacation short. And as you will see later on, this turned out to be a fantastic idea. We drove all the way to Albuquerque, New Mexico to stay at chez Lundy. We almost didn't make it; the snow was coming down like crazy.

Friday, December 29th: Spent the day visiting with Ken's parents, Ken & Dorothy Lundy. They had wanted to show us the Albuquerque sights, and particularly their new plot (they're having a new home built), but the snow was coming down all day long and the roads were impassable. So, we stayed in and enjoyed each other's company.

Saturday, December 30th: Had planned on heading home today. But all of the interstates leading out of Albuquerque were closed. Yes, ALL of them. They didn't get much plowing done over the night hours and it was still snowing during the day. After all was said and done, Albuquerque got 8-10 inches. Yes, I know, this is New Mexico we're talking about. But being New Mexico, they aren't prepared for that much snowfall, so like I said, all of the interstates were closed.

Sunday, December 31st: OK, now we really planned on heading out today. But once again, all of the interstates were closed. The snow had finally stopped falling, but do you think the roads were plowed and open for travel? NOPE! We thanked our lucky stars we decided to leave California when we did and finally admitted to ourselves we weren't getting home in time for work and school on the 2nd. Would work believe that we were snowed-in (in New Mexico)?

Monday, January 1st: Finally set out this morning. Interstate 40 was finally opened, but it was crawling with Semis not going faster that maybe 5 mph. So, we turned around and headed north on Interstate 25 towards Denver. It too had just opened that morning, and it was clear sailing the whole way. We didn't stop until we reached North Platte, Nebraska. Along the way, we saw quite a bit of damage from an ice storm that must have passed through on Interstate 70 just days before. It was quite the site (including all of the overturned Semis in the ditch).

Tuesday, January 2nd: Destination: home. Finally.

last updated: 01/05/2008