Ready to go again!

Well, we have decided on a destination and time for our next trip. September 20th we will head out to Las Vegas. This is going to be a long ride, and probably not overall as relaxing as the last one, but we want to give it a shot. Last trip was 1644 round trip, this one will be 1303 one way. Instead of several days of 150-200 mile rides, this is going to be 3 hard days there, 2 days to stay and 3 hard days back. That gives us one day to recoup after we get back home or to have an extra day for unforseen problems. Each days ride will average about 430 miles. I think the most we have riden in one day before is about 300 miles. That day we just stayed local and rode for about 12 hours, with LOTS of stops. We are going to need to try to ride about 8 hours a day, so that still leaves some time for stops, but just not as many.

We figure Saturday will be home to Roswell, New Mexico, Sunday will be Roswell to Flagstaff, Arizona and Monday Flagstaff to Vegas. Tuesday and Wednesday in Vegas and then leaving to come home on Thursday. Vegas to Gallup, New Mexico, Friday Gallup to Carlsbad, New Mexico and Saturday, Carlsbad to home.

I have talked to James and Eric to see if they are up for a road trip. It would be pretty cool to have them with us. Also, it would make packing not such a problem if we had the trunk of one of their cars to throw stuff in. They are going to give it some thought and get back to me later. While my boys have always loved our vacations, road trips have never been the part they cared for much. They say it is not the destination, but the trip that is supposed to matter, but for them I think it has always been the destination. Luckily, they do want to go back to Vegas, so the destination may be enough to get them to go on the trip with us. Also, the last road trips they went on, they were just passengers, now they will be the drivers so maybe that will be more tempting to them. I wish DJ was 21, it would be more fun to have all 3 of them, but it would be such a bore to him as they will just kick him out of everywhere we are, just like they did Katy.