Hi,
We arrived home at 9:30pm.  We traveled 9208 miles for 6 weeks and 1 day.
Thank the Lord for safe traveling.  I don't think we saw any accidents along the way.
Last Sunday we met Rev. Jerrien and Mrs. Gunnink, our former pastor at Providence, at First Christian Reformed Church in Denver.  The congregation had a potluck after church and we were invited.  We met a few other people we knew.  We had a nice visit.  The Gunninks are hoping to sell their house and move back to Holland.  Their son Jerry and family live here.
After church we had to travel from Denver to Kansas City on I-70.  It is straight and flat butt we could go 75 miles an hour.  We stopped at Hays, Kansas.
Monday we stopped in Abilene, Kansas and toured President Eisenhower's house where he grew up.
Tuesday evening we went to a Beatles concert in a beautiful open air amphitheater in Kansas City.  The singers were impersonating the Beatles.  They were called Rain.  It was nicely done and we enjoyed it except the loud rock and roll segment of the concert.
We are really thankful that we arrived safely home again.
Jan and Don

Hi,
We arrived in Overland Park, Kansas (near Kansas City) yesterday afternoon. 
We hope to leave tomorrow morning and either drive all the way home which is about 10 to 12 hours or stay in Springfield, Illinois to visit Abraham Lincoln Memorial Park.  We will decide tomorrow morning.
There are some pictures on the blog that were taken at Yosemite.  In Valley View, Tunnel View and Glacier Point and the sunrise at the rock in Green River.
See you soon,
Jan and Don

Hi,
We traveled a long time today and made a good headway towards home.  Since it is so hot here, we decided not to go to Zion National Park.  We left this morning at 7am and the temperature was 73.  Two hours later it was in the 90,s.  When we drove through on the strip in Las Vegas it was 100 degrees at 9:30am!
The dessert extended way beyond Mojave.  It went on and on.  In fact where we are it is still dry.  We are in Green River, Utah.
We drove down I-70 east today and the scenery was incredible.  We had never seen anything like and we have seen a lot of red rocks.
Jan and Don

Hi,
We had no internet nor phone coverage the last two days near Yosemite.  Very frustrating.
Tuesday, August 31 we traveled from Lake Tahoe to Yosemite.  It did freeze during the night.  It was a very pleasant 150+ miles.  Near the Tioga Entrance of Yosemite we came across Mono Lake.  It looked very nice from afar but when we got to the entrance of the beach area things looked really wierd.  It is very salty.  Twice as salty as the ocean and very alkaline.  The strange tufa towers are the result from calcium rich spring water bubbling up from the alkaline lake water.  It smelled terrible. 
As soon as we turned onto Hwy 120 going into the park the huge bare granite mountains appeared.  The temperature was in the 90's.
The scenery on the Tioga Road (Hwy 120) was very beautiful.
Cedar Lodge is a very nice place to stay but it takes about an hour to get to Yosemite Valley from there.  The road is very curvy and slow to travel on.  There is no place to eat around there other than the motel restaurant.  A BLT is over $12.  We needed some groceries and decided to eat in the next town which was 12 miles away but it took 45 minutes to get there because of the curvy road.  A tip:  stay in Yosemite Lodge which is across from the food court with reasonable prices and across the street from the shuttle bus.  It is worth the extra charge.  We spent about four hours on the road going back and forth for two days.
Wednesday, September 1 we hiked, walked, drove, rode the shuttle bus in Yosemite Valley.  Gorgeous however the trees are getting very tall and obstruct the view.  Yosemite falls were dry.  Both upper and lower.  A tip:  come earlier in the summer.
The weather was hot and sunny.
Thursday, September 2 we had to say goodbye to Curt and family.  We had breakfast together at Yosemite Lodge food court and then parted.  They to San Francisco and we went to Glacier Point and south. 
Glacier Point is breathtaking.  We were about 9000 feet high.  You can see the valley below and the mountains in front of you.
We decided not to go to Sequoia National Park.  The curvy roads were getting to us.  Very tiresome.  We saw the Sequoias is in Yosemite Park so that was enough. 
We finally came to a freeway highway near Fresno and could travel at speeds of 70MPH.  We hadn't gone that fast for a long time.  The temperature reached 105 degrees today so we thought we would travel as far as we could before dark so we could cross the Mojave Dessert in the morning because of the heat.  We made it to Barstow, CA.  It is about 160 miles from Las Vegas and 60 miles from the dessert.  It is still 94 at 9pm.
Jan and Don