Tom Kisko's Summer 2004 RV trip
I left Crystal River on 4/12/04 in my 2002 Hurrican motohome with car in tow. This is a picture summary of the trip, including many of the national parks of the southwest and the Pacific northwest. I left the RV near Salt Lake City and drove the towed car home. I made it home on 9/12/04. What a wonderful 5 months. 6,337 miles on the RV and 8,118 driven + 6,337 towed = 14,455 miles on the car. Here is the trip log.
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1 - The first night was at Ginnie Springs. The RV was parked right on the Santa Fe River.
2 - Ginnie Spring
3 - Florida Caverns State Park
4 - Sunrise on the Gulf of Mexico from the RV in Mississippi
5 - Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. They test NASA rocket engines
6 - French Quarter Festival, lots of stages and groups, FREE!
7 - Check out the buns
8 - River Boat Natchez, New Orleans
9 - New Orleans from River Boat Natchez
10 - Jazz on River Boat Natchez
11 - Jackson Square and St. Louis Cathedral in the French Quarter
12 - Abita Beer tour, Abita Springs, LA, FREE BEER!
13 - The world's longest bridge, 26 miles across Lake Poncetrain
14 - The rig with car in tow on the ferry to Galveston
15 - Beach view from my bedroom at Dellanara RV Park in Galveston
16 - Rabbit at my Mineral Wells State Park campsite in Texas
17 - B-1 on final over my Abilene campsite
18 - Me at the natural cave entrance to Carlsbad Caverns
19 - Carlsbad Caverns, down we go
20 - Carlsbad Caverns, a small corner of the Big Room
21 - Carlsbad Caverns, a bigger corner of the Big Room, 14 acres, just too big for one picture
22 - Carlsbad Caverns, Hall of the Giants, right one is 62 feet tall
23 - Carlsbad Caverns, bat flight at sunset
24 - White Sands National Monument, NM
25 - Stagecoach ride near Ruidoso, NM
26 - Sandia peak looking at Albuquerque. Taken just before I tore up my nose on a tree branch, 15 stitches. Pictures of the cut nose are only available by request
27 - Chimney Rock Colorado
28 - Mesa Verde National Park
29 - Another cliff dwelling at Mesa Verde National Park
30 - Four corners, the only place in the US where you can be in four states simultaneously
31 - On the road to Canyonlands
32 - Newspaper Rock on the way into Canyonlands NP, the most prolific petroglyph of the trip
33 - The Needles at Canyonlands National Park
34 - Mushrooms at Canyonlands NP
35 - Me at Canyonlands National Park
36 - More of Canyonlands NP
37 - Arches National Park
38 - Another arch at Arches NP
39 - Another arch at Arches NP
40 - Another arch at Arches NP
41 - Two more archs at Arches NP
42 - A balancing trick, 128' tall
43 - A deer at Arches NP
44 - Another arch at Arches NP
45 - Another arch at Arches NP
46 - This I70 Utah pass was difficult to cut
47 - Me at Zion NP
48 - Road to the tunnel in Zion
49 - Zion NP, Angels Landing is at the top of this 1488' rock, I climbed it
50 - Almost to the top of Angels Landing, note the sheer drop off on both sides
51 - View from Angels Landing
52 - Another view from Angels Landing
53 - Death Valley
54 - 122 degrees in Death Valley
55 - Artists Drive in Death Valley
56 - A free campground on the east side of the Sierras, view of Mt. Tom
57 - Mono Lake
58 - Yosemite's Lambert Dome in Tuolumne Meadows, I climed 850' up the right side, most folks use the ridge trail on the back side
59 - View from Lambert Dome
60 - Yosemite Valley
61 - Yosemite Falls, highest in the US. I did a 10 mile hike that followed Yosemite Creek down to the top of the falls. Then I had to climb down 2700' to the valley floor.
62 - Yosemite Creek just before the falls, the calm before the storm
63 - Looking down Yosemite Falls
64 - View of the valley from the top of Yosemite Falls. I climbed out the the dark point just above the center of the pic
65 - Another view of the valley from the top of Yosemite Falls
66 - From the trail half way down the falls trail
67 - Yosemite Dana Meadows
68 - The fire that drove me out of Yosemite, it flared up the next day
69 - It took three months, the Pacific Ocean at last! Point Reyes Lighthouse
70 - San Fancisco Bay Bridge
71 - San Fancisco
72 - My Ocean Cove campground, I'm the one on the left, on the cliff
73 - Another beach front site, Navarro Beach
74 - And another, Westport - Union Landing, life is rough
75 - One of the larger Redwoods on the Avenue of the Giants
76 - Elk by my campsite
77 - Lighthouse at Crescent City, CA
78 - My RV site at the mouth of Smith River
79 - Oregon Caves National Monument
80 - Oregon coast sea gulls
81 - Oregon coast arch
82 - Oregon coast arches
83 - Oregon dunes, biggest coastal dunes in the US
84 - Oregon coast light house
85 - Another Oregon coast light house
86 - And another Oregon coast light house
87 - Oregon coast seals
88 - Oregon coast tidal sea life
89 - Blue Angles near Portland
90 - Anybody see the runway?
91 - Columbia River & Mt. Hood
92 - Mt. St. Helens
93 - Mt. St. Helens destruction, 24 years later
94 - Iron Creek Falls, east of Mt. St. Helens
95 - Thanks for the snack
96 - Elizabeth, Kurt & Gracies darling
97 - Christine, Joey, Lopa, Me, Bill, Francie, Ken & Dad
98 - Orcas Island, East Sound
99 - Orcas Island, downtown East Sound
100 - Orcas Island blackberries, some not so black
101 - Orcas Island, madrona tree
102 - Orcas Island, interior
103 - Orcas Island, roadside
104 - Orcas Island, Deer Harbor
105 - Orcas Island, ferry docks
106 - Headed home, easten Oregon
107 - RV near Salt Lake City in storage until next spring, drove the car home in 3 days
108 - Windmills in the sky, Wyoming
109 - A map of my route
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