The Trip

Ahh the fun of family vacations..... Actually we had a really good time. Here is a "blow by blow" of the trip:

January 1:

We left on in the early evening. The wifey's sister is now living in Barstow as her husband is at Fort Irwin. The good about this was it is right at the 15/40 interstate split and allowed us to take a little time of the drive. The bad news: 1 - It's Barstow - what a dive!! Gotta love a city with a mall that only has about 3 open stores in it. 2 - The in-laws love to run the heater - ON HIGH!!! not only was it hot, it made a loud bang when it kicked in. 3 - There is no extra bed so the wifey and I attempted to sleep on a "inflate-a-bed" thing - totally uncomforatble. Suffice to say I got about 3 hours of sleep to get myself ready for the next days drive.

January 2:

I wake up and I am ready to go by 7:00 am - sadly the rest of my family is female so we leave about 8:30 am. Everyone goes to het bathroom - we hit Starbucks and we are just about to get on I-40 East and low and behold - the little one has to go to the bathroom - AGAIN!! Since we are close - back to the in-laws for potty time (we used the Carl's Jr bathroom the night before - NEVER AGAIN)

Potty break done - on to the I-40 and the open road - nice and freakin windy - Then about 30 miles into the drive - the older one needs to ......wait for it ....... yep - SHE GOTTA PEE!!! I must say as a man.... just killing me!!!!!

So now that is done and it is straight windy driving to Needles for a lunch break. The Carl's Jr is for some odd reason - drive through only so off the Taco Bell (not much choice) and the 20 minute wait. Why is it that small armpit towns just cant understand that fast food is supposed to be served FAST!!!

So off we go again this time with the wifey (who has a severe OCD need to drive) at the wheel. YEAH FOR ME!!!!

I must say once you get past Kingman teh drive is awesome!!! Very beautiful and this seems to make the drive a lot easier. We stop in a small town called Seligman to get gas and of course - all the girls gotta go AGAIN!!! Good side note for the ladies... If you have to stop in Seligman, use the bathrooms at the Chevron/A & W Root Beer - a huge thumbs up from all the girls.

About 35 more miles and we are in Williams. Very cool small town - ver nice hotel (Grand canyon Railway and Resort). Check in, get the bags in, get to the room, lay down on the bed....and the kids wanna go play in the snow. I force them to wait 10 minutes (just becasue I am DAD and can) then outside to play.

Tune in for more Grand Canyon Adventures coming soon!!!!!

Here is a link to some action adventure photos of the trip - Grand Canyon and the Caverns