Tehachapi Pass, Hoover Dam, Grand Canyon, Painted Desert, HOME

Tehachapi Pass Railroad Line - 36 Trains Run a day on this loop in the mountains in Kern County, south-central California.  Boyd's mom and dad traveled out west in the 1930's from Tennessee to find work near this railroad loop and would often visit the loop for entertainment.  We got to the loop just in time to see a train pass over itself.  So neat to see.

The bridge over the Hoover Dam was dedicated to Pat Tillman, An American professional football player and war hero.  He died in the mountains of Afghanistan in 2004.

Driving to the Grand Canyon

Williams AZ is the Gateway to the Grand Canyon.   WE stayed in a camp ground in this little town and the temperature got down to 28 degrees.  Yes, 28 degrees in Arizona!

AMAZING, INDESCRIBLE!!

Our drive to Sadona, AZ was breath taking!  

The Painted Desert

Friday, Oct, 17th, we arrived Home, sweet Home!

7200 Miles 

Grant's Pass, Oregon, Mt Shasta, CA, Yosemite National Park, CA

Oct. 5-9

Hard to find internet at a lot of the campgrounds, that will work fast enough to down load pictures.  I have tried for days to post on blog.

Finally starting to see some fall color in the Grants Pass Oregon camp ground.  

Knitting along the way

It was quite a treat to be riding along and this beautiful snow covered mountain appeared.  We started taking pictures from far off and we finally got close enough to get a good shot.  Mt Shasta is a volcano  that first erupted in 1915.

A pretty church on our way to Yosemite National Park

This fellow lived at the campground about four miles out side of park 

Sad statistics of forest fires in the Yosemite National Park

Trees burned on many acres 

Pilot of tanker plane crashed the day we went into the park.  As we went up the mountain we could see fire burning.  

More smoke 

Inside the Yosemite...   6000 ft 

Amazing!!!

Sequoia Tree in the park

Two mountain climbers..,,no just hiked a little!