[Rockhounds] Once in a lifetime trip across the US

[Carol J. Bova]

Combining messages:
Welcome Home Kitty & Bill. Looking forward to your travel tales!   
Kitty, hope you heal quickly!

Question: Any recommendations for stopping on a trip west on I-40 to  
California?  Won't have a chance to stop until Tennessee, and can't  
stray too much from I-40 so I get to Cali on time for my son's wedding  
in Los Angeles.  (John Doppler).   Too bad it's summer because there  
are tons of places in the Mojave I'd love to go back to, but not this  
time of year!  There will also be a short jaunt up to Chico and  
Sacramento, CA at some point.

I'm taking my time coming home, probably early September.  Most likely  
main route east is starting from I-40 again, or I-10. Only plans on  
the way back are to stop at the White Sands National Monument for  
picture-taking (opens Sept. 8), and to play at the Crater of Diamonds  
State Park in Arksansas.

I will be in my little old 2WD pickup and have my metal detector  
along, gold pan and trusty spray bottle. I don't know if I left my  
screens in CA in storage with other things or if I gave them away  
before I left. Easy enough to make one though. Hard rock mining is not  
possible, unfortunately.

I'll be taking other shorter trips in the future, heaven willing, but  
this will be my last solo trip cross-country. So folks, what
are your suggestions?

Carol
who now lives in a relatively rockless meteor impact crater. : )


On Jul 23, 2009, at 10:46 PM, Kitty & Bill Heacox wrote:

> Hi List,
> Bill and I are back from a 5 month sojourn while he’s been on  
> sabbatical leave from University of Hawaii at Hilo. We left on March  
> 1^st for Tasmania, then wandered through a good part of the rest of  
> Australia and a brief re-visit to New Zealand, and had only a 10-day  
> stop at home in Hilo before heading for the Pacific Northwest on May  
> 5^th . After visiting friends & relatives in Washington & Oregon we  
> took off on June 1^st for British Columbia, Yukon Territory, and  
> Alaska, and took the ferry on July 10th down the Inland Passage to  
> Bellingham. After a few more friend/family visits, we got home to  
> Hilo day-before-yesterday, July 21.



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