THE Itinerary!

Because I know ALL of you are wondering just what the heck our trip will entail....

I should have posted this days ago, but getting ready for this trip was a little more time consuming that I initially thought. Last week, mom started having pains and noticed some symptoms that pointed toward another kidney stone. Sure enough, after an xray, it was confirmed. Then on Saturday, right in the middle of giving me a haircut, the pain REALLY struck! She ended up in the hospital on Monday to have the stone broken up so that it would pass. After spending the better part of the day in the hospital, we were back home, and she was feeling MUCH better. Then Tony went to his eye doctor appointment and when they scanned his eye, they saw something they wanted him to get checked out by a specialist. So today we went to the doctor for him and spent the biggest part of the morning sitting there while they checked him out. Then it was up to borrow his dad's van for the trip, and before we knew it, we have let most of the day pass and we are still up packing right now, trying not to forget anything important! The maps and books and the Travel Binder are already in the car, so we should be good and able to pick up anything else we might forget along the way.

So, even with all that happening, we still decided that since Tony had taken today and tomorrow off work, and all we would do tomorrow would be sit around all antsy waiting for the day to come, we pushed the trip up a day. So we added another day in St. Louis, and we head out bright and early in the morning!

So, without further ado, here is the massive itinerary! The cities listed are where we will stop for the night.

July 9-10     St. Louis, MO (2 nights)
July 11        Springfield, MO
July 12        Broken Arrow, OK
July 13        Elk City, OK
July 14        Amarillo, TX
July 15        Albuquerque, NM
July 16        Holbrook, AZ
July 17        Flagstaff, AZ
July 18        Kingman, AZ
July 19        Barstow, CA
July 20-21   Hollywood, CA (2 nights)
July 22        Three Rivers, CA
July 23        Las Vegas, NV
July 24        Moab, UT
July 25-27   Colorado Springs, CO (3 nights)
July 28        Dodge City, KS
July 29        Columbia, MO
July 30        Back Home!



I'll let you know if our heads are spinning when it's over! We will be nomads!

I plan to blog as much as possible along the way. I am sure that I won't be able to do it every night, but I will be sure to write something down and make sure that when I do get a chance, I don't leave anything out! I hope you all will enjoy going along with us, virtually.