The Traveling Morgans had a successful spring trip to our job for the summer season.
We started from Rockport Texas on the Gulf of Mexico.
We went through San Marcos Texas and the Texas Hill Country, the Llano Estacado (usually translated staked plain, but more properly palisaded plain). Then in one interesting day tackled the Rocky Mountains of New Mexico, the White Sands Desert and Organ Mountains, ending in Las Cruces NM. We spent 3 days checking for possible winter jobs for next year and concluded there was not a place that would be good for ourselves and our dogs.
The next leg of the journey was to Albuquerque NM and on I-40 into Arizona. We stopped at Meteor Crater to see a first for us — a mile wide hole caused by a meteor. What a mess a meteor could make of a city today! The winds at the crater were unbelievable, probably a force 3 hurricane equivalent.
We traveled up near Hoover Dam on our way to Pahrump NM and the Escapees Nevada park, where the search for next winter’s job was much better. We have 3 solid prospects including one in Las Vegas. There is so much to see in that area (not even including Las Vegas) that we hope one of the 3 pans out for us.
Our drive then took us over Death Valley Road back to I-15 and on to Barstow CA and Bakersfield CA, and then to the area near Sequoia National Park. We only had one day in the park when a weather change made it necessary for us to move on.
Our last real stop before the end of this trip was in Coarsegold CA at the Sierra Escapees Park, which is probably the most beautiful long term stay campground we have ever seen. The highlight was two days in Yosemite National Park, which is near by. The snow still had most roads closed, even in April.
Larry has made a few changes to the web site. Most notably a link to the FACEBOOK page and a chance to follow us on Twitter.
If you want to contact us via FACEBOOK go to http://facebook,.com/travelingmorgans
To get to our twitter feed, try http://www.twitter.com/TravelingMorgan (note no S on the end, TravelingMorgans was one letter too long for a Twitter Feed name).
To see our blog, go to https://blog.travelingmorgans.com
The main web site is still http://travelingmorgans.com and it now has over 100 pages and over 3000 photographs from our travels.
Larry is currently finishing the 2010 travels page at http://travelingmorgans.com/TM-Year/2010.shtml
and starting the 2011 page at http://travelingmorgans.com/TM-Year/2011.shtml. The later is where the pictures from Yosemite and Sequoia and our other stops will be posted.
For those who do not know Escapees is an RV club designed originally for those who live in an RV all the time and now also for those who live extensively in an RV or are thinking about this lifestyle we enjoy so much.
You can get more information at http://www.escapees.com and we are always glad to talk to anyone about this lifestyle.
We are now in California’s Gold country at Grass Valley CA and will explore this area while we work here for the summer.
Please keep in touch and contact us if you will be in this area.