Monday, November 07, 2011STATSDeparture: 10:00 amArrival: 4:30 pm PST, Los Angeles / Pomona / Fairplex KOA, Pomona, CADistance: 311 milesComments: Well, we’re back in California, as witnessed by all the traffic we ran into just getting to Pomona. Tomorrow, I get to drive through pretty much the heart of the SoCal traffic. I’m looking forward to that.

Sunday, November 06, 2011STATS Departure: 8:15 am MST Arrival: 4:00 pm MST, Leaf Verde RV Resort, Buckeye, AZ Distance: 408 miles Comments: Movin’ toward home. We got a little confused this morning (by “we” I mean “I”), because the clocks were not all telling the same time. I finally realized that daylight savings time ended last night, and some clocks adjusted automatically and others didn’t. It never occurred to me th...

Saturday, November 05, 2011STATS Comments: We checked the weather forecast for the area westward, and high winds were predicted. Indeed, the RV was already being rocked by the wind, and we hadn’t left the site yet. We decided that it would be best to just hunker down and wait it out. The winds were only forecasted until 5:00 pm, so we expect that tomorrow it will be smoother sailing. At around 5:30, we noticed that there was no wind anymore. Not sure exac...

Friday, November 04, 2011STATSDeparture: 10:30 am CDTArrival: 5:00 pm MDT, Las Cruces KOA, Las Cruces, NM (7.5 hours; we gained an hour going into Mountain Time)Distance: 425 milesComments: Like thirsty cattle moving across the desert and smelling the stream a mile ahead, we can smell the green, green grass of home (well, it’s probably the brown, brown tufts by now). From Big Spring, Texas to Las Cruces, New Mexico. I must be crazy (I know, I’m stati...

Thursday, November 03, 2011STATSDeparture: 8:13 amArrival: 4:00 pm CTD, Texas RV Park of Big Spring, Big Spring, TXDistance: 256 milesComments: Geraldine invited us in for breakfast in the morning, so we were up at 6:00 am to get ready. A quick (and delicious) breakfast of eggs, toast, and bacon, and Geraldine was off taking her kids to school and going off to work. Barbara and I packed up and hit the road west.A little before noon, we stopped at a rest area on ...