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Mac - April 2024

A solar eclipse. 50th state, the call of the “young-old”, friends and family, and a month driving across the U.S. Baca lagi

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- 29 Mac 2024, 3:09 PTG
- ☁️ 54 °F
- Altitud: 2,575 kaki
- Amerika Syarikat California Kern County Keene Cesar E Chavez National Monument 35.223953, -118.55920435°13’26” N 118°33’33” W
Hari 1
A Long Road East
29 Mac, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 54 °F
For our second month of traveling slow, we are driving across the U.S. from west to east, California to Florida. We are taking our time for the drive.
A great example of our sower mindset was our first side-quest. After Marc got his National Park access card at Volcanoes on Hawaii, we kind of committed to stopping at other NP along our route. Today we happened upon Cesar Chavez NP in Keene, California. This tiny town was home to Chavez and his wife for many years and is the site of their burial. Unbeknownst to us this is also the time to celebrate Cesar Chavez birthday on March 31! A bonus event! Live music, colorful dancers and enthusiastic crowds capped off an impromptu visit. We learned a ton of new info and we were both happy for the time.Baca lagi
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Pengembara Bonus stop.
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Pengembara We used to live in that area. Tahaccipi is a cool little town with great wineries around. Don’t miss the “loop” while you are there!
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1 Planet 1 Bag Nice to know. We always like wine and food finds.
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Pengembara Can’t wait to see you here in Texas ❤️
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- 30 Mac 2024, 2:17 PTG
- ☁️ 55 °F
- Altitud: 2,156 kaki
- Amerika Syarikat Nevada Clark County Las Vegas Convention Center Stardust Helispot 36.123967, -115.16775536°7’26” N 115°10’4” W
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Vegas
30 Mac, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 55 °F
We used our status with American Express to get a suite at the Venetian Palazzo. The room is huge and overlooks the strip. It includes $65.00 a day for breakfast (good thing too as the pot of coffee I ordered from room service was 45) a 100.00 dinner and drink credit and early check in and late check out. We plan on using all of our time here. No gambling just walking around and looking is our game plan. Our view is great and our time at our “home” is off to a great start.Baca lagi
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- 30 Mac 2024, 4:40 PTG
- ☁️ 50 °F
- Altitud: 2,142 kaki
- Amerika Syarikat Nevada Clark County Bracken 36.111423, -115.17690336°6’41” N 115°10’37” W
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Hari 2
Hells Kitchen
30 Mac, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 50 °F
I enjoy watching Gordon Ramsey’s reality cooking shows. I even enjoy playing his cooking video games. When I worked with him at the Long Beach Grand Prix he was the nicest guy and his tv personality is very different than his actual personality. Anyway, I just had to eat at the Vegas Hells Kitchen. No reservations at all, unless we wanted to eat at 11:15pm. So… we just turned up. I asked nicely if there was room for a walk-up, sure she said, “will a high top table be ok?” Oh, yes please!
It was wonderful. I could’nt stop smiling. If you’ve seen the show the restaurant matches up. There was a blue side of the kitchen and a red. Bandanas and colored chefs coats. The pre-fix was scallops, Beef Wellington, and sticky toffee pudding. Marc had the crispy salmon, and roasted cauliflower. Heavenly all around. I’d do again if it weren’t for the price tag, but worth it at least once. Marc’s favorite part was the steak knife…..Baca lagi
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Pengembara How cool!….. were they filming?
2/04/24BalasTerjemah
1 Planet 1 Bag No filming when we were there. I think they do special things for that, and maybe not in Vegas.
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Pengembara I’m glad you tried the Wellington…. Was it as good as it looks in the series?
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- 31 Mac 2024, 10:22 PTG
- ⛅ 52 °F
- Altitud: 2,060 kaki
- Amerika Syarikat Nevada Clark County Las Vegas Las Vegas Racetrack and Ball Park 36.170261, -115.14270836°10’13” N 115°8’34” W
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Hari 3
Sin City- for Easter?
31 Mac, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ⛅ 52 °F
We found more skin than Easter eggs, in the city that never sleeps and it was a blast! Easter takes on a new meaning or actually no meaning at all, that we could see, in Sin City. Oh, there were some drunk folks with bunny ears and a really odd looking guy in a complete bunny suit (with an overly large carrot) , but I’m not judging. Up and down the strip we went. South to the airport, north to Fremont street.Baca lagi
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Pengembara Love it!….
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Pengembara I was going to say perfect for Adel
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- 1 Apr 2024, 7:07 PTG
- 🌙 52 °F
- Altitud: 3,465 kaki
- Amerika Syarikat Arizona Mohave County Foothill Vista Mobile Home Park 35.215556, -114.01310835°12’56” N 114°0’47” W
Hari 4
Goodbye Vegas
1 April, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ 🌙 52 °F
Day 3 of 3. In case you didn’t hear, the strip is long. After three days we still hadn’t seen it all and this was our last time. All the way to Mandalay Bay today. Very busy there with a girls volleyball tournament. There must have been 400 teams (no kidding). There were 140 courts and games from morning to evening for three days. It was overwhelming so we didn’t stay long. Then a walk through New York, New York, Luxor and Excalibur. I liked NY the best then bus back to our hotel, lunch and a late checkout and we waved goodbye. On to the cross country part of our trip. Arkansas by Sunday with a few stops for friends in between.Baca lagi
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Pengembara Did you ride the Rollercoaster ?
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1 Planet 1 Bag No, there a million girls in line
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- 2 Apr 2024, 1:43 PTG
- ☀️ 61 °F
- Altitud: 4,895 kaki
- Amerika Syarikat Arizona Coconino County Wupatki Spring 35.521687, -111.3726535°31’18” N 111°22’22” W
Hari 5
Wupatki National Monument
2 April, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 61 °F
1100 is a long time ago when there were several groups of Indians who lived in the High desert around Flagstaff. Today, the area is part of the Wupatki National Monument. Their structures are made of stacked flagstone and a concrete’ish substance. They also incorporated existing rocks as walls. Interesting to look at the construction and the locations.Baca lagi
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- 3 Apr 2024, 9:09 PG
- ☀️ 46 °F
- Altitud: 6,224 kaki
- Amerika Syarikat New Mexico Torrance County Johns Place 35.010284, -106.06578135°0’37” N 106°3’57” W
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Drive, drive…
3 April, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 46 °F
Today was all car. I tried to take a photo and hour. Heading east from Flagstaff and ending in Clovis, New Mexico. Hills and mountains and even signs of volcanic activity. Then… New Mexico where it looked flat and dry.Baca lagi
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Pengembara You have entered the road that never ends! Wait until you get to west Texas!
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- 5 Apr 2024, 4:52 PTG
- 🌬 84 °F
- Altitud: 1,916 kaki
- Amerika Syarikat Texas Taylor County Buffalo Gap 32.286343, -99.82661432°17’11” N 99°49’36” W
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Buffalo Gap History Center
5 April, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ 🌬 84 °F
A park of Historical buildings from old Texas. Located in the small town of Buffalo Gap off the main highway. We had the entire park to ourselves. These historic villages are really fun to walk around and like many others obviously a passion of the volunteers who put it together and keep the doors open every day. Melissa and Pam couldn’t resist roll-playing teacher and settler student.Baca lagi
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- 6 Apr 2024, 2:37 PTG
- ☁️ 73 °F
- Altitud: 531 kaki
- Amerika Syarikat Texas Dallas County Coppell Lake Number 1 33.010784, -97.00860633°0’39” N 97°0’31” W
Hari 9
Texas - Hard Eight BBQ
6 April, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 73 °F
Smoked BBQ by the pound? How can we say no to that. Thanks to Marc’s niece Anita and her partner Chris we literally ate it up. We tried it all. Turkey, ham, brisket, beef ribs, sausage, and jalapeño sausage. All of the sides were just icing on the cake. It was fun to walk past the smoker and point to the meats and order by the volume you wanted to put in your tummy. Then they weigh it and charge accordingly.

We ate and “talked story” for way too long. Thanks Anita and Chris for our new favorite Texas BBQ experience. We hope to see you soon somewhere else on the planet soon.Baca lagi
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Pengembara Go big in Texas! We love to show off the bbq 😁 So wonderful to hear about the trips taken, where your going, how to make it happen & getting to see y'all! I'm beyond thrilled to that i got to see you a long the way. Safe travels 💚
6/04/24BalasTerjemah
Pengembara Back at you! Thanks for the Texas sized Welcome. It was way too short a visit, yet you were wonderful in how you made us feel special. We hope you can join us at one of our future homes. We need to get together again soon.
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- 7 Apr 2024, 3:45 PTG
- ☁️ 79 °F
- Altitud: 361 kaki
- Amerika Syarikat Texas Bowie County Whatley Mitchell Lake 33.470146, -94.04045133°28’13” N 94°2’26” W
Hari 10
50 Nifty United States
7 April, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 79 °F
Oddly, Arkansas was the last state on my 50 state visited bucket list. I guess I will have to work on my Countries of the World list. On that list I’m up to 29….
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