Ten Days in the Life of a Scrapper....

The wife and I have celebrated every five years of our marriage with a special vacation. Last year was our 15th, but with the birth of a grandchild and not being able to decide on a destination, we did not do a good one. This year, Debs threw down the gauntlet and said we are going to do something special.



We talked about an Alaskan cruise, but we did not want to pay that much. We talked about just landing in the Anchorage area and driving around and puddle jumping on small aircraft, but we worried about the remoteness and lack of interesting things to do, so....

We decided to fly to San Francisco and spend a day or two in that area. We are going to get a car and drive to Yosemite and see that area for a day or so, then head north to Carson City/Tahoe area and up to Reno and spend a day or so in that area. We will then travel up to Crater Lake and spend two nights there in a little B&B Hotel we stayed at and enjoyed in '10. The next day we take off and drive over to the coast and up to Portland to catch a plane back home.

For me, a road trip is the best. You can tool along and stop anywhere that catches your eye or heart. We are really looking forward to this trip and if anyone knows of anything along our way that you have really enjoyed and think we should consider, please feel free to add a POI for us to research. It is a few months out and I will post updates and pictures once we get back as I don't really feel comfortable posting a a week away from the house (we do have a monitored security system to help with our peace of mind)

I forget the name of the park/nature preserve I saw around San Francisco, but I'll never forget the sequoia trees, very cool and worth seeing when you're there

Originally Posted by auminer

If it happens to encompass the 21st of August this year, there'll be a total solar eclipse tracking all the way across the US. The missus & I are heading to western Nebraska to view it. Hopefully at Carhenge but the advantage of western Nebraska is straight-shot roads and a tendency for clear days in late August.

I made arrangements for a place to stay at the GA, TN, SC, NC state lines back in '12 because I knew the hotels would book up. My plan is on track. What makes it really great is that I landed a job to tow a trailer from Florida to Maryland. Pretty much changes and no pay trip into a paid vacation. Whoot! whoot!

Originally Posted by andyheim

I forget the name of the park/nature preserve I saw around San Francisco, but I'll never forget the sequoia trees, very cool and worth seeing when you're there

We will see some of the Sequoia and redwoods. Thank you.

widespread flooding, dams overflowing, mandatory evacuations......ongoing

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California storm floods: Mapping the impact across Northern California - Curbed SF

Hopefully at Carhenge but the advantage of western Nebraska is straight-shot roads and a tendency for clear days in late August. - Auminer

Disadvantage is...it's Nebraska.

I KID I KID!


Time for a distraction..


Congrats on 16 years TO!

Road trips rock. Told the wife next year we head out west...take 40 an hop off an on to 66.

Road trips are great tho...you can head out with one destination in mind, an end up doing something completely different due to finding something or somewhere along the way.

Favorites of traveling trips...Bourbon trail in Kentucky, Cadillac ranch, and silly stop in the middle of Arizona or NM ( I forget which) where for a buck you can view an alien! The signs you see leading up to it are funny to.


Have fun, stay safe, an be ready to share your adventures with us. Or at lest me...I dig road trips.

Sirscrapalot - Putting along on the highway of life.

The Thing The Thing?, Dragoon, Arizona And the link takes you to Roadside America lots of cool things to look for on your road trip!

Out west is filled with fun random things.


Having just got back from doing a trip down 95 south to Fl...I can tell you the east coast is boring. No Thing, no Cadillac ranch, no big ass ball of string, or a 500 ft. Paul Bunyon and OX...go west young man, go west.


Sirscrapalot - Road tripping thru life.

Originally Posted by Sirscrapalot

Out west is filled with fun random things.


Having just got back from doing a trip down 95 south to Fl...I can tell you the east coast is boring. No Thing, no Cadillac ranch, no big ass ball of string, or a 500 ft. Paul Bunyon and OX...go west young man, go west.


Sirscrapalot - Road tripping thru life.

Yeah, but out there there isn't a traffic jam from Richmond VA to Albany NY. No worlds biggest ball of string is going to top that.

Hike part of the John Muir trail. Ya know, if you're into that sort of thing.

Appalachian trail to, if your into that kinda thing.

I like hiking. Hell on the back tho.

I suppose I could stop taking the cooler on hikes...nah. I'll suffer.



Sirscrapalot - Went on a 4 mile hike once...forgot he had to walk back to.

Your welcome! Thanks for sharing!

I need to drop you a pm to catch up Auminer.

An yes...the cadillacs are much more colorful now. lol. Much as I pick on Texas an it's fine residents, it's a very beautiful state to drive thru if you take the time to look an get out of the big cities. Boring as hell the drive from Dallas to El Paso back when I did it, but it had it's moments that for sure. Still trying to figure out how all those "gentlemen clubs" survive with nothing around for miles an miles. Another mystery of life.

I drove each and every time I've been out west, an it was always a good trip. Whether it ended in Az, Cali, or Kansas.

I say again...head west for road tripping adventures. History, Beauty, Hilarity...its all around.

Thanks for the thread TO hopefully we didn't threadjack you to bad with all these suggestions.

Sirscrapalot - Celebration...C'MON! - The group that sang Celebration.

I say the same about my sandbar.

Myrtle beach an Virginia beach are much more suited for tourists...then my little sandbar.

The lack of traffic an big box stores turns a lot of folks away...who knew.

Sirscrapalot - Dear Orlando Drivers...DMV called all of you need to go retake your road test.