Wow, we are finally back home. Four days shy of four months on the road. The White Ghost performed with perfection while towing 16,000 pounds of fiver behind it. Some of the roads in Baja were something else to behold with 10% grades. They are barely 8' wide and I am 8'4" wide. Really fun when meeting trucks on a curve in the mountains. And they drive like idiots in Mexico. There is no such thing as a "safe" zone for passing down there. If you are in their way, they take off around you and worry about it later. If another vehicle is coming, they just pull over into you. Crazee.

We saw some awesome scenery and covered 13,050 miles. We averaged 12.9 mpg - - not bad for 24,000# total weight with a very high frontage area. The piggy back train ride thru the Copper Canyon was quite amazing. Then, ferry over to Baja, then straight up the coast to within a couple miles of the Canadian border hitting all the neat spots along the coast. Stayed a week in the Mt. Rainier/Mt. St. Helens area, a week in Yellowstone and the Tetons. Still nice to back home and get warm again - - hey, what am I saying - - it is hot down here in Florida. What possessed me to come in July and August?

I will post some pics as soon as I sort thru and select the best. Anyhow, HI.

WanderingBob

 

Welcome home SwelteringBob! Glad to hear you and the lovely Missus are healthy and happy after your road trip. Stay in the shade or you MaY eNd Up TyPiNg lIkE ThIs

 

Welcome back. Glad to hear that you had a great time and made it home in almost one piece. Going anywhere else soon? We don't want to hear any whining about all the clean up you now have to do on the truck and the fiver.

 

Welcom back,
Nice trip, Washington state is my old home The west side, Mt St Helens, and Mt Rainer, Whidbb Island. lots to see.
Maybe can get Chaikwa to dust off the foo-foo coffee pot.

 

Hey Davey,
I like that - - Whidbb - - cute. We spent two weeks on Whidbey with a three day side trip up to San Juan. Neat country. My son has property on Whidbey - - our first time there - - gorgeous piece of property.

Don't hold your breath on that Chaikwa character - - he doesn't like my foo foo stuff.

AlmondMochaBob

 

are you kiddin????
I am waiting for the llist of how many palm trees ar egone adn what broke on teh sprinkler, and how badly the house needs repainted, and how dirty the pool is, then the remarks about how welcoem we all are to come help!


Actually bob, glad yall made it home safe... sounds like a dream vacaction if there ever was...
one of my goals in life is to be able to do what you just did.........I am jealous and cant wait to see the pics!

BTW stay away from teh foo-foo pot... some BAD things happened to it while you were gone...

 

funny, I thought the same exact thing!!! heheheh must be the intelligence connection, eh Stan? no talk about friggin' coffe either!


Hope you had a bit of wonder, romance and it sounds like you lived through the 'thrill' part... so no more of that...

heidi on the NorthEast (RIGHT!) coast

 

Oh the heck with the 'pretty scenery' shots, I just wanna see the train!

Glad you two made it home ok and had a good time!

chaikwa.

 

What, Fiverbob was gone for a while?

Oh yeah, now I rememeber.
Hey Fiverbob, glad to have you back.
We all missed you very very much. (nose is growing a little now)