Tag: road trip
member name: Jennifer F.
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May 26, 2007 06:39 PM EDT --
Last August, we took a long road trip from San Bernardino, California to my hometown of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. One of the highlights along the way was Arches National Park outside of Moab, Utah. . . .
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December 16, 2007 10:21 AM EST --
Kingman, Arizona is the hub of the Mohave County government and a proud and interesting town on the Route 66. Founded in 1882 as a railroad settlement, Kingman quickly became an important center . . .
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January 01, 2008 06:02 PM EST --
We spent Christmas in Death Valley National Park where my parents spend the winter months working. This has become an annual tradition in our family. This is the fourth Christmas we've . . .
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December 09, 2007 11:02 PM EST --
Needles is a very interesting, fun, and historically important town on the Route 66. Located on the western banks of the Colorado River, Needles was the first taste of California many traveler's . . .
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April 07, 2008 12:33 PM EDT --
The Salton Sea is the kind of place that either you intensely hate or you fall in love with. Of course, I fell in love with it and am trying to plan another trip out there soon to explore the . . .
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November 11, 2007 01:29 AM EST --
Last weekend we got away for a quick visit to the Sierra Nevada Mountains that rise out of central California to enjoy the fall colors. Our first stop was Sequoia National Park - one of my . . .
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December 01, 2007 10:46 AM EST --
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, we drove to the Grand Canyon from our home in San Bernardino, California. One of my projects this year is to learn more about the historic Route 66 so I was very pleased . . .
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December 12, 2007 11:16 PM EST --
Driving Route 66 in Arizona is a great experience. Arizona has the longest stretch of Route 66 still maintained today and you can visit many interesting towns on the trip such as Oatman, Kingman, . . .
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December 21, 2007 11:39 PM EST --
Williams, Arizona is the gateway to the Grand Canyon and a lovely small town in its own right in a beautiful mountain setting. Way up at 6,700 feet in elevation, Williams provides a cool spot in . . .
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February 27, 2008 10:45 PM EST --
Highway 395 which travels along the Eastern Slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains in Central California from Los Angeles to Reno, Nevada is perhaps one of the most scenic roadtrips . . .
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April 03, 2008 01:38 AM EDT --
Julian, California, a charming old gold mining town in the Cuyamaca Mountains about an hour northeast of San Diego, is a fun town to explore in the Spring when the wildflowers are in full . . .
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April 18, 2008 03:35 PM EDT --
Last Friday, we took a day off and enjoyed the beauty of Crystal Cove State Beach, which is located in Orange County between the busy communities of Newport Beach and Laguna Beach.
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May 27, 2008 10:04 AM EDT --
Death Valley Junction is a quiet desert outpost between Baker, California and Death Valley National Park. Once an important company town for the mining operations in Death Valley, now . . .
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December 29, 2007 07:45 PM EST --
We spent this Christmas holiday in Death Valley National Park with my parents who work there in the winter. Since we have visited Death Valley many times over the years, we were looking . . .
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February 10, 2008 11:09 AM EST --
The word Manzanar brings up some painful memories for Japanese Americans who were interned here during World War II. Following the Pearl Harbor attack, the U.S. government ordered more than 110,000 . . .
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March 29, 2008 11:14 PM EDT --
On Easter Sunday, we toured the Southern part of California seeing Pala Indian Reservation and the goldrush town of Julian in San Diego County; Anza Borrego Desert State Park in Imperial County; . . .
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May 08, 2008 09:45 AM EDT --
On a Sunday afternoon recently, we drove up to the Santa Rosa Plateau, which is located quite close to us near the quickly expanding cities of Murrieta, Lake Elsinore, and Temecula in Riverside County, . . .
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May 11, 2008 10:42 AM EDT --
When driving down Highway 138 in the Mojave Desert, you drive through a little town called Littlerock, California. After seeing nothing but open desert land for miles, it . . .
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February 10, 2008 12:29 AM EST --
If you think the Alabama Hills, on the Eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountain range in California look somewhat familiar, that is because the Alabama Hills have provided the Western setting in more . . .
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February 13, 2008 04:09 PM EST --
It's hard to miss the town of Independence when taking a road trip on scenic Highway 395 that runs from Los Angles to Reno, Nevada on the Eastern side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains because the highway . . .
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