Caroline and John Wise are the two people featured throughout the course of this blog; we’ve been taking digital images of our travels for over 23 years. In that time, we’ve left home in the Phoenix, Arizona area usually together but on occasion going solo no less than 300 times for various lengths of vacations, weekend getaways, and day trips. Out of curiosity, I decided to grab one photo from each day we were out on the road; an image to demonstrate something that stood out for it to represent that travel day. When possible, those days will feature a link to a blog post with other photos and a narrative when they exist.

We didn’t understand in our early travels how important this lengthy online document would become to us and from that lack of comprehension, we were not consistent in taking photos or notes. So, some line items below won’t have a link or photo for that reason, though this is still a work in progress.

Although I’ve broken these index pages into 5-year chunks, they are quite heavy to load, my apologies. Regarding image quality, when we started with digital cameras in the late summer of 1999 our first camera shot 1.2 megapixels (MP) photos. Over the year we upgraded to 3MP, 5MP, 8MP, 12MP, 18MP, and currently shoot 24 MP.

Day 328: [December 26, 2004] Leaving SoCal after a visit to the ocean and the North Woods Inn. Go to page.

Day 327: [December 25, 2004] Christmas morning in Santa Barbara. Go to page.

Day 326: [December 24, 2004] At Pea Soup Andersen’s Restaurant – the home of split pea soup. Go to page.

Day 325: [December 23, 2004] Heading to Santa Barbara for time with family. Go to page.

Day 324: [December 12, 2004] Hanging out on Olvera Street in the old Pueblo of Los Angeles. Go to page.

Day 323: [December 11, 2004] We are going to Disneyland with friends for Caroline’s birthday. Go to page.

Day 322: [December 10, 2004] Not going to Santa Barbara this weekend. Go to page.

Day 321: [November 29, 2004] North Woods Inn in Covina, California, I think I drag Caroline here far too often. Go to page.

Day 320: [November 28, 2004] Made it through the Redwoods National Park and even dipped into southern Oregon. Go to page.

Day 319: [November 27, 2004] Pt. Reyes north of San Francisco is a seriously beautiful place. Go to page.

Day 318: [November 26, 2004] San Francisco reassures me that crazy abounds in the metropolis. Go to page.

Day 317: [November 25, 2004] Death Valley as it makes for a great contrast to the ocean and cities we visit. Go to page.

Day 316: [November 24, 2004] Heading into Thanksgiving while forgetting to take a photo. No supporting blog entry.

Day 315: [November 21, 2004] On the way home we don’t really want to leave and indulge with just one more stop. Go to page.

Day 314: [November 20, 2004] Visiting family and some of the many beautiful sights on this stretch of coastline. Go to page.

Day 313: [November 19, 2004] Because Santa Barbara beckons. Go to page.

Day 312: [October 16, 2004] Visiting friends in Tucson. Go to page.

Day 311: [October 10, 2004] Behind the Scenes Tour at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Go to page.

Day 310: [October 9, 2004] Caroline at the helm in Monterey Bay, part of the Science Under Sail program. Go to page.

Day 309: [October 8, 2004] Everyone knows this particular “Cologne At A Touch” dispenser in the women’s room, right? Go to page.

Day 308: [October 3, 2004] Body Worlds made it to America. Go to page.

Day 307: [October 2, 2004] Temptation 2004, a Bollywood show with Shahrukh Khan and others. No supporting blog entry.

Day 306: [September 6, 2004] At Hole in the Rock in Utah looking at the ugliest donkey to ever walk this earth. Go to page.

Day 305: [September 5, 2004] Crazy Horse Monument in South Dakota might need another 100 years before it’s finished. Go to page.

Day 304: [September 4, 2004] Caroline is saving a tortoise in Texas as we venture into the Great Plains. Go to page.

Day 303: [September 3, 2004] It’s Labor Day in America and that can only mean it’s time for a road trip. Go to page.

Day 302: [August 22, 2004] Driving up to Cold Springs Tavern is a favorite when we are in Santa Barbara. Go to page.

Day 301: [August 21, 2004] Sophie was on the way to the park for some running around chasing balls. Go to page.

Day 300: [August 20, 2004] I’ve got a great idea, how about another drive to Santa Barbara? Go to page.

Day 299: [July 25, 2004] Return from Vegas. No supporting entry.

Day 298: [July 24, 2004] His last unfulfilled wish while living in America was to visit Vegas. Go to page.

Day 297: [July 6, 2004] Out at Crankshaft Junction in Death Valley because it’s HOT and we’re idiots. Go to page.

Day 296: [July 5, 2004] Here we are at Crater Lake National Park in Oregon again. Go to page.

Day 295: [July 4, 2004] The Hoh Rainforest is part of the Olympic National Park. Go to page.

Day 294: [July 3, 2004] From a cloudy Mt Rainier we are at the Strait of Juan de Fuca going to Olympic National Park. Go to page.

Day 293: [July 2, 2004] We are on the Columbia River Gorge but will continue north into Washington. Go to page.

Day 292: [July 1, 2004] Two and a half years ago I posted a photo of the Hoover dam nearly full. Go to page.

Day 291: [June 24, 2004] After a visit to Monument Valley the road trip was about to come to an end. Go to page.

Day 290: [June 23, 2004] Out of the desert and into the mountains, Jessica and I visited Durango, Colorado. Go to page.

Day 289: [June 22, 2004] Another dad and daughter road trip where my kid’s bad attitude had her begging for her life. Go to page.

Day 288: [June 20, 2004] Who doesn’t love Falooda in Little India? Go to page.

Day 287: [June 19, 2004] Jessica visited her great-great-aunt and uncle Burns in Santa Barbara before joining the Navy. Go to page.

Day 286: [June 18, 2004] The daughter is in town, seems like as good a reason as any for a road trip. Go to page.

Day 285: [May 23, 2004] Day 10 of Jay traveling with us stopping at the Very Large Array outside of Socorro, New Mexico. Go to page.

Day 284: [May 22, 2004] Day 9 of Jay across the Great Plains, windows wide open listening to the sounds of Bollywood. Go to page.

Day 283: [May 21, 2004]  Day 8 with Jay at Effigy Mounds in Iowa, from here we took the slow road to Nebraska. Go to page.

Day 282: [May 20, 2004] Day 7 with a timber wolf following us on a back road for more than 10 minutes. Go to page.

Day 281: [May 19, 2004] Day 6 with Jay at the edge of Lake Itasca in Minnesota, the beginning of the Mississippi River. Go to page.

Day 280: [May 18, 2004] Day 5 of Jay traveling with us in North Dakota seeing America the old-fashioned way. Go to page.

Day 279: [May 17, 2004] Day 4 with Jay visiting Yellowstone and Little Bighorn Battlefield. Go to page.

Day 278: [May 16, 2004] Day 3 with Jay at the Tetons and Yellowstone, spending the night at Old Faithful Inn. Go to page.

Day 277: [May 15, 2004] Day 2 of Jay with us passing thru Paris, Idaho on our way to Wyoming. Go to page.

Day 276: [May 14, 2004] Standing in the Colorado River at Lees Ferry, mile zero of the Grand Canyon. Go to page.

Day 275: [April 18, 2004] Eating and shopping with Sonal in Los Angeles. Go to page.

Day 274: [April 17, 2004] Visiting Little India with Sonal and eating some great Indian food. No supporting blog entry.

Day 273: [April 4, 2004] Did someone say day trip? Down to Tucson, we went. BTW, it’s my birthday. Go to page.

Day 272: [March 21, 2004] Driving down the 101 to Interstate 10 that will bring us back to Phoenix, Arizona. Go to page.

Day 271: [March 20, 2004] Visiting Anacapa Island when the Giant Coreopsis is in bloom. Go to page.

Day 270: [March 19, 2004] Driving to California because that’s what we do all the time. Go to page.

Day 269: [March 7, 2004] Breakfast at El Camino in Socorro before stepping into a freezing Quemado Lake. Go to page.

Day 268: [March 6, 2004] Meandering New Mexico before ending up here at Bosque Del Apache Wildlife Refuge. Go to page.

Day 267: [February 15, 2004] Six Flags Magic Mountain and then dinner in Little India. Got home at 3:00 a.m. Go to page.

Day 266: [February 14, 2004] Spent 16 hours in Disneyland today. Go to page.

Day 265: [February 13, 2004] Rented a van so we could all fit in one car to head over to Disneyland. Go to page.

Day 264: [January 19, 2004] On Highway 1 stopping to walk in the ocean in Ventura. Go to page.

Day 263: [January 18, 2004] Elkhorn Slough, whale watching, and a visit to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Go to page.

Day 262: [January 17, 2004] Elephant Seal colony and a coffee at the Big Sur Bakery before heading into Monterey. Go to page.

Day 261: [January 16, 2004] From Santa Barbara and a visit with family to San Luis Obispo. Go to page.

Day 260: [December 23, 2003] Jessica and I up in the Grand Canyon National Park. Go to page.

Day 259: [December 21, 2003] Santa Barbara to visit our great aunt and uncle. Go to page.

Day 258: [December 20, 2003] My sister Shari joined us at Disneyland so we could all see each other. Go to page.

Day 257: [December 19, 2003] My sister Amanda and daughter Jessica heading over to California. Go to page.

Day 256: [December 1, 2003] Ducked into Monterey and caught the Monarch butterflies over at Pacific Grove. Go to page.

Day 255: [November 30, 2003] Our first ever cup of Dutch Bros Coffee in Brookings, Oregon. Go to page.

Day 254: [November 29, 2003] Tillamook, Oregon at the Blue Heron Cheese Company. Go to page.

Day 253: [November 28, 2003] When in Oregon and the weather is less than perfect, go fly a kite. Go to page.

Day 252: [November 27, 2003] Harris Beach State Park in Brookings, Oregon, our first-ever night in a YURT! Go to page.

Day 251: [November 26, 2003] Left Arizona midday (2:30 p.m.) for Tulare, California, and in our rush to cover 587 miles, we took a total of zero photos. Arrived at 10:00 p.m. grabbing a cheap room at Budget Inn for only $39.95. We know this much because we took notes. No supporting blog entry.

Day 250: [November 15, 2003] Tonto National Monument outside Phoenix has limited seasonal hours. Go to page.

Day 249: [November 2, 2003] Another day trip with Jay Patel to Los Angeles, California. Go to page.

Day 248: [October 12, 2003] Fall colors of the San Juan Mountains and time at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. Go to page.

Day 247: [October 11, 2003] Arches National Park and Dead Horse State Park were part of the day’s activities in Utah. Go to page.

Day 246: [October 10, 2003] Heading north with a friend if anyone asks. Go to page.

Day 245: [October 5, 2003] We stayed near Great Basin National Park to visit Lehman Caves and other stuff. Go to page.

Day 244: [October 4, 2003] We made it to Great Basin National Park in Nevada to see the Bristlecone Pine Trees. Go to page.

Day 243: [October 3, 2003] Drove up to Utah for the night probably staying in Kanab. No supporting blog entry.

Day 242: [September 22, 2003] Jay Patel at Monument Valley. Go to page.

Day 241: [September 20, 2003] This is Wupatki National Monument north of Flagstaff. Go to page.

Day 240: [September 14, 2003] Coffee at McDonald’s, shopping, and pizza at Costco, our routine in Santa Barbara. Go to page.

Day 239: [September 13, 2003] Whatever we did today is unknown. Mystery days in Los Angeles are puzzling. No supporting blog entry.

Day 238: [September 12, 2003] Leaving for Southern California. Go to page.

Day 237: [September 2, 2003] Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument in New Mexico. Go to page.

Day 236: [September 1, 2003] Chaco for breakfast, Acome Pueblo for lunch, and El Camino Restaurant in Socorro for dinner! Go to page.

Day 235: [August 31, 2003] Great Sand Dunes National Monument in Colorado are a LOT bigger than they look. Go to page.

Day 234: [August 30, 2003] From Canyonlands south to Horseshoe Bend, back then nobody stopped. Go to page.

Day 233: [August 29, 2003] Steak at the Mexican Hat Lodge in the shadow of the Valley of the Gods, Utah. Go to page.

Day 232: [August 10, 2003] Time to visit the Silva Family down in Tucson. Go to page.

Day 231: [July 27, 2003] Chinatown, Little Tokyo, and then Little India so we could eat some Gujarati Thali. Go to page.

Day 230: [July 7, 2003] Flaming Gorge to Dinosaur National Monument to Newspaper Rock and Mexican Hat, Utah. Go to page.

Day 229: [July 6, 2003] Yellowstone before the Tetons going south. Go to page.

Day 228: [July 5, 2003] Glacier National Park down to Helen’s Corral for bison burgers just outside of Yellowstone. Go to page.

Day 227: [July 4, 2003] Stumbled upon the EBR-1 in Idaho, the world’s first nuclear power plant. Go to page.

Day 226: [July 3, 2003] Heading to the far north over the 4th of July. This is the Colorado River in Northern Arizona. Go to page.

Day 225: [June 22, 2003] Adventurous day on First Mesa meeting Olive Tony and buying our first Kachina. Go to page.

Day 224: [June 21, 2003] From “Standin’ on the corner in Winslow Arizona” to 3rd Mesa and our first Kachina Dance. Go to page.

Day 223: [June 20, 2003] Drove up to Winslow today. No supporting entry.

Day 222: [June 15, 2003] Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and Mission Santa Barbara before stopping in Los Angeles. Go to page.

Day 221: [June 14, 2003] Visiting family in Santa Barbara. Go to page.

Day 220: [June 13, 2003] Drove out the night before to Santa Barbara arriving at midnight.

Day 219: [June 1, 2003] Bandelier National Monument and some old Mission ruins in New Mexico. Go to page.

Day 218: [May 31, 2003] These smiling faces are at El Camino Family Restaurant in Socorro, New Mexico. Go to page.

Day 217: [May 26, 2003] Visiting Coronado National Memorial, the Chiricahua National Monument, and Fort Bowie. Go to page.

Day 216: [May 25, 2003] Montezuma’s Castle and Tuzigoot National Monuments. Just dare us to go for a third. Go to page.

Day 215: [May 24, 2003] A brief day trip to Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in southern Arizona. Go to page.

Day 214: [May 18, 2003] We stopped in Oxnard for the  20th Annual California Strawberry Festival. Go to page.

Day 213: [May 17, 2003] Visiting our aunt & uncle in Santa Barbara as they’ve been hit hard by my father’s passing on February 1st at the age of 57. Go to page.

Day 212: [May 16, 2003] Driving to California. Upgraded camera to Olympus C5050z with 5MP, takes blurry photo. Go to page.

Day 211: [May 4, 2003] Jutta’s favorite place in America; The Grand Canyon. Go to page.

Day 210: [May 3, 2003] A return to the Grand Canyon National Park will always put a smile on Jutta’s face. Go to page.

Day 209: [May 2, 2003] We’re at the Titan Missile Museum in southern Arizona. Go to page.

Day 208: [April 28, 2003] Making snow angels at White Sands National Monument in New Mexico. Go to page.

Day 207: [April 27, 2003] Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas with a stop for Dairy Queen and a visit with some horses. Go to page.

Day 206: [April 26, 2003] Here we are at Elvis Presley’s grave in Memphis, Tennessee. Go to page.

Day 205: [April 25, 2003] From the Blue Ridge Parkway to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Go to page.

Day 204: [April 24, 2003] Forsyth Fountain in Savannah, Georgia. Go to page.

Day 203: [April 23, 2003] Sure we’d dragged this jet-lagged 67-year-old grandmother thousands of miles eastward all the way to Florida but come on, she’s petting manatees. Go to page.

Day 202: [April 22, 2003] Sunrise in the Florida Keys and Jutta snorkeling for the first time in her life. Go to page.

Day 201: [April 21, 2003] Everglades and wildlife encounters were how we spent the day in southern Florida. Go to page.

Day 200: [April 20, 2003] On the Gulf Coast passing through Alabama. Go to page.

Day 199: [April 19, 2003] Lunch at 1921 Seafood in Houma. Spent a short amount of time in New Orleans. Go to page.

Day 198: [April 18, 2003] B-1 Stealth Bombers flying low in Sweetwater, Texas. Drove 925 miles stopping in Alexandria, Louisiana. Go to page.

Day 197: [April 17, 2003] It’s Thursday 5:00 p.m. as we start our drive east out of Phoenix to Fabens, Texas. Go to page.

Day 196: [April 15, 2003] Jutta and I out looking for wildflowers in the southern desert. Go to page.

Day 195: [April 5, 2003] The desert wildflowers are in bloom taking us in the direction of Tucson. Go to page.

Day 194: [March 16, 2003] Drove a bit south so we could visit the Mission San Juan Capistrano. Go to page.

Day 193: [March 15, 2003] We are in West Covina, California where I grew up. Go to page.

Day 192: [March 14, 2003] Drove to California. No supporting entry.

Day 191: [March 8, 2003] Highway 191 north on the Coronado Scenic Byway from Clifton up to the Hannigan Meadows. Go to page.

Day 190: [January 19, 2003] Sonal and family visiting Disneyland with us. Go to page.

Day 189: [January 18, 2003] In Southern California with the Patel family to visit Little India and other things. Go to page.

Day 188: [December 28, 2002] Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge with 35,000 snow geese lifting off. Go to page.

Day 187: [December 27, 2002] This is cave bacon at Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico. Go to page.

Day 186: [December 26, 2002] There are lots of things to see in Texas including the Rio Grande. That wall over there is in Mexico. Go to page.

Day 185: [December 25, 2002] Christmas Day in Valentine, Texas: how romantic. Continued down to Big Bend National Park. Go to page.

Day 184: [December 24, 2002] It’s Christmas Eve so we should take a road trip. The Sands Motel was in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Go to page.

Day 183: [December 1, 2002] Caroline was considering some shenanigans or other so into the cuffs and by gunpoint, I moved her along. Go to page.

Day 182: [November 30, 2002] Stopped in the Redwoods and Fern Canyon pulled us in too. Go to page.

Day 181: [November 29, 2002] The Hoh Rain Forest in the Olympic National Park near Forks, Washington. Go to page.

Day 180: [November 28, 2002] Spectacular Thanksgiving sunset somewhere near La Push, Washington. Go to page.

Day 179: [November 27, 2002] Barefoot in a freezing creek at Mt. Hood, Oregon. Go to page.

Day 178: [November 26, 2002] Loneliest Road in America and the Little Ale’inn in Nevada. Go to page.

Day 177: [November 25, 2002] We’re on our way to the E.T. Highway to sleep with the aliens. Go to page.

Day 176: [November 3, 2002] The Colorado River flowing into Lake Powell. Go to page.

Day 175: [November 2, 2002] North Rim of the Grand Canyon was a good place to stop before driving to Torrey, Utah, for the night. Go to page.

Day 174: [September 29, 2002] Seeing Lawrence of Arabia during its 40th anniversary showing on a restored 70mm print. Go to page.

Day 173: [September 28, 2002] Massive food day in L.A. Go to page.

Day 172: [September 27, 2002] Drove to L.A. No supporting page.

Day 171: [September 22, 2002] Catching a screening of Spirited Away and walking around Hollywood. Go to page.

Day 170: [September 21, 2002] A Japanese harvest festival in Little Tokyo made for a terrific day in L.A. Go to page.

Day 169: [September 20, 2002] Racing across the desert to get to L.A. so we could catch a screening of Das Experiment. Go to page.

Day 168: [September 2, 2002] Rocks, rocks, and more rocks. Pictured is the Moki Dugway carved out of rocks. Go to page.

Day 167: [September 1, 2002] Speeding ticket, bison, Devil’s Tower, prairie dogs, and giant stone heads. Go to page.

Day 166: [August 31, 2002] Garden of the Gods and Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. Go to page.

Day 165: [August 30, 2002] Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, via Bloody Basin Road seems the right way to me. Go to page.

Day 164: [August 4, 2002] Trip to Tucson to visit the Silvas. On the way home, we found this monsoon-soaked giant moth. Go to page.

Day 163: [July 28, 2002] It’s Sunday and the day we would have driven home to Phoenix. No supporting blog entry.

Day 162: [July 27, 2002] Breakfast at Goldilocks Filipino Cafe, Devdas with Shahrukh Khan, Hawaiian dance recital in Little Tokyo. Go to page.

Day 161: [July 26, 2002] Drove out to Artesia, California tonight. Go to page.

Day 160: [July 7, 2002] Visited Yosemite and Manzanar War Relocation Center. Go to page.

Day 159: [July 6, 2002] Lassen Volcanic National Park and a visit to Lake Tahoe before going to Yosemite. Go to page.

Day 158: [July 5, 2002] Crater Lake National Park in the morning and afternoon walk in the Lava Beds National Monument. Go to page.

Day 157: [July 4, 2002] Ash Meadows NWR, Devil’s Hole Pupfish in Death Valley, ending up in Lakeview, Oregon. Go to page.

Day 156: [July 3, 2002] Nothing, Arizona, and seeing Bonnie and Clyde’s bullet-ridden car at the Primm Valley Resort. Go to page.

Day 155: [June 16, 2002] San Gabriel Nursery and the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. Go to page.

Day 154: [June 15, 2002] Descanso Gardens, watched Atanarjuat – the Fast Runner before eating imagawayaki. Go to page.

Day 153: [June 14, 2002] Why stay home when you can get in the car and drive back to Los Angeles? Go to page.

Day 152: [June 8, 2002] Tom Mix monument on the way to Tucson visiting the Silva family. Go to page.

Day 151: [June 2, 2002] My dad cleaned up for our visit. He’s 57 in this photo and won’t make it to his 58th year. Go to page.

Day 150: [June 1, 2002] In Quartzsite we had the bright idea to head northwest to Death Valley. Go to page.

Day 149: [May 19, 2002] Sequoia National Park and then the long drive back to Phoenix. It’s not like watching TV is an option. Go to page.

Day 148: [May 18, 2002] Monterey Bay Aquarium felt like a great idea and the reality was equal to the expectation. Go to page.

Day 147: [May 17, 2002] McWay Falls at Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park in Big Sur and the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Go to page.

Day 146: [May 16, 2002] On our way to Valencia, California to pick up a friend for a road trip north to Monterey. Go to page.

Day 145: [April 21, 2002] Why go home when you can get a room in Jamestown, California, and be in Yosemite by 8:00 a.m.? Go to page.

Day 144: [April 20, 2002] Woke early for Moss Beach and tide pools before visiting San Francisco for a screening of Spirited Away in Japanese. Go to page.

Day 143: [April 1, 2002] Thank god and Jesus too that we made it home safely after driving for 14.5 hours home. Go to page.

Day 142: [March 31, 2002] The bridges, gorse, and lighthouses beg us to stay but we made it down to Willows, California. Go to page.

Day 141: [March 30, 2002] Columbia River Gorge to Multnomah Falls over to Portland with views of Mt. Rainier, Mt. St. Helens, and Mt. Hood in the distance.Go to page.

Day 140: [March 29, 2002] Found a vintage motel in Arlington, Oregon, with wood paneling and a crackle lacquer lamp that screamed 1971 and so it was ours. Go to page.

Day 139: [March 28, 2002] Drove to the Great Basin spent the night in Jackpot, NV at the Covered Wagon Motel for only $19.93. Go to page.

Day 138: [March 10, 2002] Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico. Go to page.

Day 137: [March 9, 2002] Passing the Morenci Mine in Clifton before heading through the mountains to Hatch, New Mexico. Go to page.

Day 136: [March 2, 2002] Boyce Thompson Arboretum hosting “Chapungu: Custom and Legend — A Culture in Stone”. Go to page.

Day 135: [February 24, 2002] Drove to Walnut Canyon National Monument outside Flagstaff in Northern Arizona. Go to page.

Day 134: [February 17, 2002] Scouting javelina hunting locations with the Silvas down south. Go to page.

Day 133: [February 16, 2002] Invited by friends for camping near the Buenos Aires NWR. Go to page.

Day 132: [February 3, 2002]  Tomb of Syrian-born Hadji Ali who rode camels for the military in Quartzsite, Arizona. Go to page.

Day 131: [February 2, 2002] Visited four Missions, Solvang, and these pigs today. It was a great day all the way around. Go to page.

Day 130: [February 1, 2002] Mission San Gabriel and Junípero Serra before visiting the La Brea Tar Pits. Go to page.

Day 129: [January 27, 2002] Leaving our campsite by the Colorado River. Go to page.

Day 128: [January 26, 2002] We hung out listening to the river, dreaming about rafting the Colorado – when we’re rich! Go to page.

Day 127: [January 25, 2002] Delgadillo’s Snow Cap Drive-In in Seligman, Arizona on old Route 66. Go to page.

Day 126: [January 3, 2002] Woke up in Valencia, California, did stuff, and drove home. No supporting blog entry.

Day 125: [January 2, 2002] Using our time Wisely and worrying about how to pay the bills tomorrow. At Disneyland. Go to page.

Day 124: [January 1, 2002] A payphone, remember those? Caroline was splurging on a call to Germany on Hwy 1. Go to page.

Day 123: [December 31, 2001] Out Old Route 66, destination Elephant Seal Colony near San Simeon, California. Go to page.

Day 122: [December 23, 2001] Visited the Birch Aquarium, the Point Loma Lighthouse, and a lot of coast. Go to page.

Day 121: [December 22, 2001] We are in Southern California, most likely in Ontario visiting my father and probably my aunt Ann and uncle Woody. I know we were traveling this Saturday because the next day found us in San Diego and back during these years it hadn’t occurred to us yet that we could drive out to California and back on the same day. No supporting blog entry.

Day 120: [November 26, 2001] Meeting a friend for breakfast at the Original Pantry in downtown L.A. Go to page.

Day 119: [November 25, 2001] Monterey Bay Aquarium and then Pacific Grove to find the Monarch butterflies. Go to page.

Day 118: [November 24, 2001] Over the Donner Pass in a snowstorm without chains, our destination for today was Pt. Reyes. Go to page.

Day 117: [November 23, 2001] Across the Great Basin to the “Shoe Tree” (now gone) near Middlegate, Nevada. Go to page.

Day 116: [November 22, 2001] Across the northern desert of Nevada up to Ely with Thanksgiving dinner at a casino. Go to page.

Day 115: [November 21, 2001] Next up Las Vegas but first, a stop at the Hoover Dam back when it held a lot of water. Go to page.

Day 114: [October 22, 2001] Detour down past the Salton Sea and over to the Yuma Territorial Prison. Go to page.

Day 113: [October 21, 2001] Monterey Bay Aquarium before heading south on Highway 1. Go to page.

Day 112: [October 20, 2001] Up Highway 1 along the Pacific Ocean on a visit to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Go to page.

Day 111: [September 2, 2001] Visited the Grand Canyon with a stop at Chief Yellowhorse’s roadside shop. Go to page.

Day 110: [September 1, 2001] Donkeys in Monument Valley on our way to Mexican Hat, Utah. Go to page.

Day 109: [August 19, 2001] We ambled our way to Oatman, Arizona, on old Route 66 with many a stop along the way. Go to page.

Day 108: [August 12, 2001] Congress up through Yarnell, into Skull Valley on our way to Walnut Canyon National Monument. Go to page.

Day 107: [August 11, 2001] Boyce Thompson Arboretum near Superior, up through Globe, Fort Apache, and Payson. Go to page.

Day 106: [August 1, 2001] Mission San Xavier, Titan Missile Museum, Buenos Aires NWR, Bisbee, and Tombstone. Go to page.

Day 105: [July 15, 2001] Our drive home included visits to the Ute and Zuni Reservations. Go to page.

Day 104: [July 14, 2001] Across the Navajo Reservation to Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. Go to page.

Day 103: [July 13, 2001] Slept in a Wigwam on Old Route 66 in Holbrook, Arizon. Go to page.

Day 102: [May 20, 2001] No photos. My guess is we visited Six Flags Magic Mountain. No supporting blog entry.

Day 101: [May 19, 2001] Spent the late afternoon at the beach south of the Santa Monica Pier. Go to page.

Day 100: [May 6, 2001] This was the only photo we took this weekend and we know it was in Blythe, California. Go to page.

Day 99: [May 5, 2001] No photo for this day but likely a travel day to Los Angeles. No supporting blog entry.

Day 98: [April 22, 2001] Picked up Mark Shimer for a drive through Ojai over to Pismo Beach. Go to page.

Day 97: [April 21, 2001] From the Santa Monica Mountains over to Malibu and then Los Angeles. Go to page.

Day 96: [April 20, 2001] On the backroads of Joshua Tree National Park. Go to page.

Day 95: [April 15, 2001] Day trip that took us through Prescott, Jerome, and Sedona. Go to page.

Day 94: [April 7, 2001] Twice a year visitors are allowed on the Trinity Site in New Mexico. Go to page.

Day 93: [April 6, 2001] Our favorite restaurant in all of New Mexico is found right here in Socorro. Go to page.

Day 92: [March 17, 2001] Organ Pipe National Monument down on the Mexican border with Arizona. Go to page.

Day 91: [January 14, 2001] Connor, Keaton (RIP), and Tia Herman – the children of Steve Herman in Prescott. Go to page.

Day 90: [January 13, 2001] In Prescott spending the night while there was still snow on the ground. No supporting blog entry.

Day 89: [January 6, 2001] Hung out with our friend Mark Shimer in Santa Monica. Go to page.

Day 88: [January 5, 2001] We likely spent the day with family in Ontario but I’m only guessing. No supporting blog entry.

Day 87: [January 4, 2001] Thai food in Pomona on way to Los Angeles. Go to page.

Day 86: [December 17, 2000] Satan was found in this bathroom tile at a motel in California. Go to page.

Day 85: [December 16, 2000] This is our friend Mark Shimer who we are meeting in Little Tokyo for food. Go to page.

Day 84: [December 4, 2000] In Windowrock on the Navajo Res for the funeral of Dion’s father. Go to page.

Day 83: [December 3, 2000] On our way to the Navajo Reservation for a solemn event. Go to page.

Day 82: [November 21, 2000] We left impressions of our hands at White Sands National Monument. Go to page.

Day 81: [November 20, 2000] One needs a good night of vibrating from their bed to drive so damn far across Texas. Go to page.

Day 80: [November 19, 2000] Lingering along the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana. Drove to Flatonia, Texas. Go to page.

Day 79: [November 18, 2000] Visiting the Tabasco factory on Avery Island, Louisiana. Go to page.

Day 78: [November 17, 2000] Finished the Natchez Trace before heading to Louisiana to this crab shack in Houma. Go to page.

Day 77: [November 16, 2000] Slow drive down the incredible Natchez Trace Parkway. Go to page.

Day 76: [November 15, 2000] Exploring Kentucky and heading toward Nashville, Tennessee. Go to page.

Day 75: [November 14, 2000] Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky drive the contrast of the part of America we just left. Go to page.

Day 74: [November 13, 2000] The Chesapeake Bay with its tunnels and bridges is just beautiful. Go to page.

Day 73: [November 12, 2000] Our nation’s capital. Go to page.

Day 72: [November 11, 2000] In Pennsylvania visiting with the Amish before driving to Washington D.C. Go to page.

Day 71: [November 10, 2000] Drove through Salem and Boston before taking a motel in Plymouth. Go to page.

Day 70: [November 9, 2000] Hanging out in Maine spending the day along the Atlantic. Go to page.

Day 69: [November 8, 2000] Maple Grove factory and drive through New Hampshire before hitting Maine. Go to page.

Day 68: [November 7, 2000] This family portrait is of the Knezetic’s in 1928: the two seated adults are my great-grandparents, the young girl on the far left is my paternal grandmother Amelia. Go to page.

Day 67: [November 6, 2000] In Buffalo, New York visiting Niagara Falls and Caroline’s first visit to Canada. Go to page.

Day 66: [November 5, 2000] Barns, rivers, and covered bridges from Ohio into West Virginia, to Pennsylvania & New York State. Go to page.

Day 65: [November 4, 2000] Indiana to Kentucky over the Ohio River and soul food dinner at Millie’s Place in Cincinnati. Go to page.

Day 64: [November 3, 2000] Amelia Earhart’s birthplace, home of Jesse James, and a stop at the Gateway Arch. Go to page.

Day 63: [November 2, 2000] TX, OK, and KS. The only rule for this trip, avoid major highways. Go to page.

Day 62: [November 1, 2000] Leaving on our first CROSS COUNTRY trip across AMERICA! Go to page.

Day 61: [October 23, 2000] Vermillion Cliffs over to the Grand Falls of the Little Colorado River. Go to page.

Day 60: [October 22, 2000] Float down the Colorado River and visit Antelope Canyon. Go to page.

Day 59: [October 21, 2000] Jutta in Utah and Arizona, Caroline is in New Mexico and Colorado; at Four Corners. Go to page.

Day 58: [October 20, 2000] Scored a night at Kokopelli’s Cave in Farmington, New Mexico. Go to page.

Day 57: [October 19, 2000] We enjoyed Chaco Culture so much the month before that we decided to take Jutta up for a visit. Go to page.

Day 56: [October 18, 2000] After a brief day-and-a-half break out in Grants, New Mexico. Go to page.

Day 55: [October 16, 2000] Bisbee Mining Museum, Mexican border, and Skeleton Canyon: Geronimo Surrender Site. Go to page.

Day 54: [October 15, 2000] Gleeson Road to Rattlesnake Ranch will forever be my favorite photo of my mother-in-law. Go to page.

Day 53: [October 14, 2000] Woke up in Tumacacori and went to sleep in Tombstone. Go to page.

Day 52: [October 13, 2000] Tallest saguaro cactus we’ve ever seen also visiting Colossal Cave near Tucson. Go to page.

Day 51: [October 8, 2000] We flew home from Salt Lake City today. That’s the Grand Canyon below us. Go to page.

Day 50: [October 7, 2000] Old Faithful Geyser at the beginning of the day and a moose towards the end of it. Go to page.

Day 49: [October 6, 2000] Yellowstone is entering winter and will be closing for the season soon. Go to page.

Day 48: [October 5, 2000] At the 45th Parallel with Jutta. Still exploring Yellowstone. Go to page.

Day 47: [October 4, 2000] Wildlife, sulfur, majestic skies, algae, bacterial mats, and a hint of winter. Go to page.

Day 46: [October 3, 2000] Fishing Cone Geyser at West Thumb in Yellowstone. Go to page.

Day 45: [October 2, 2000] Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. Go to page.

Day 44: [October 1, 2000] Jutta is with us on our return to Yellowstone National Park. Go to page.

Day 43: [September 24, 2000] Huntington Beach to Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace in Yorba Linda. Go to page.

Day 42: [September 23, 2000] Visiting Long Beach Aquarium and the Queen Mary in California. Go to page.

Day 41: [September 11, 2000] The San Juan Mountains in southwest Colorado. Go to page.

Day 40: [September 10, 2000] Visiting Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico. Go to page.

Day 39: [September 9, 2000] Yei Bi Chei (Yébîchai) dancers perform the “Night Chant” during Navajo Nation Fair. Go to page.

Day 38: [September 4, 2000] The drive over Hopi lands is an exquisite study in contemplation. Go to page.

Day 37: [September 3, 2000] Our first visits to Arches and Canyonlands National Parks in Utah. Go to page.

Day 36: [September 2, 2000] Does this canyon make me look fat? On the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. Go to page.

Day 35: [September 1, 2000] On our way for 1st visit to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. Go to page.

Day 34: [August 28, 2000] A pitstop in Quartzsite, Arizona on our way back to Phoenix, Arizona. Go to page.

Day 33: [August 27, 2000] Not a lot of other info about the day but we know we ate at Oki Dog on this day. Go to page.

Day 32: [August 26, 2000] Visiting my family in Calabasas, California. The guy with the white beard is my father. Go to page.

Day 31: [August 25, 2000] We go to Los Angeles a lot. Just updated our camera to a Sony Cybershot with 3MP! Go to page.

Day 30: [July 4, 2000] Leaving Catalina, our very first panorama image with a digital camera on a moving boat at that. Go to page.

Day 29: [July 3, 2000] Ruby and Axel Rieke us for a trip out to Catalina Island, California for the 4th of July weekend. Go to page.

Day 28: [June 30, 2000] Our trip to Los Angeles was to visit Disneyland with our friends Ruby and Axel Rieke. Go to page.

Day 27: [June 29, 2000] Driving west on Interstate 10 to Los Angeles. Go to page.

Day 26: [May 17, 2000] Our first visit to Yellowstone won’t be our last. Go to page.

Day 25: [May 16, 2000] Mammoth Hot Springs over to Lamar Valley we explored the upper corner of Yellowstone. Go to page.

Day 24: [May 15, 2000] Woke up at Old Faithful Inn and saw our first bear right here in Yellowstone National Park. Go to page.

Day 23: [May 14, 2000] While our day began in the Tetons we were in Yellowstone by the afternoon. Go to page.

Day 22: [May 13, 2000] Hanging out in the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. Go to page.

Day 21: [May 12, 2000] Our first-ever visit to Yellowstone but first a stop in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Go to page.

Day 20: [May 6, 2000] Took a road trip down to Bisbee, Arizona with friends. Go to page.

Day 19: [March 6, 2000] Paul Davids director of Starry Night and Timothy Leary’s Dead joined us at the UFO conference. Go to page.

Day 18: [March 5, 2000] My company Alienzoo sponsored a UFO conference in Laughlin, Nevada. Go to page.

Day 17: [February 6, 2000] A night at the El Tovar in the Grand Canyon. Go to page.

Day 16: [February 5, 2000] Off to the Grand Canyon via the train from Williams, Arizona. Go to page.

Day 15: [December 15, 1999] Our last day in Florida was out exploring the southern end of the state. Go to page.

Day 14: [December 14, 1999] After visiting the Kennedy Space Center we went for a fan boat tour of a wetland. Go to page.

Day 13: [December 13, 1999] It took us more than a day to explore Disney World. Go to page.

Day 12: [December 12, 1999] Caroline’s birthday at Disneyworld. She is 32 years old. Go to page.

Day 11: [December 11, 1999] Arriving at Disney World on a cloudy winter day down in Florida. Go to page.

Day 10: [November 28, 1999] Stayed a night near Luna Lake in Alpine, Arizona. Go to page.

Day 9: [November 27, 1999] The aliens have arrived in Roswell, New Mexico. Go to page.

Day 8: [November 26, 1999] Human bats entering Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico. Go to page.

Day 7: [November 25, 1999] Mark Shimer and Robert Bell join us for Tofurkey on a trip to Roswell, New Mexico. Go to page.

Day 6: [October 3, 1999] Up to Bryce Canyon National Park for a hike before heading home. Go to page.

Day 5: [October 2, 1999] Zion National Park after a stop at Antelope Slot Canyon in Arizona. Go to page.

Day 4: [October 1, 1999] Visiting Wupatki and Sunset Crater National on our way to Utah. Go to page.

Day 3: [August 11, 1999] Siggraph was the main attraction on this trip to Los Angeles. Go to page.

Day 2: [August 10, 1999] First up a stop at Disneyland in California. Go to page.

Day 1: [August 9, 1999] Robert Bell and Grant Wiggins joined us on way to Los Angeles. Go to page.