Catch up..Arkansas Bound slower than the last two trips, Happy Birthday Seth, Owen and Marines! Russell and Lori are in Florida, Adam visits his parents one more time

 More than a week has passed since the last blog, so I'm starting from this last Sunday. I have a  hard time remembering yesterday so why try a whole week hahahah. 

FALL..Our beautiful Allissa is the perfect advertisement for FALL.
Her smile, a glass of wine in hand, a charcuterie board and that
beautiful tree behind her. Can it get anymore perfect than that!? 💖

Sunday we had our usual Champagne Sunday which was awesome. Made a good brunch and then I sat enjoying the outdoor fire until 1230. I knew I had some things to do, but not more than a couple of hours. 

My new glass for the Christmas season. Taking one to Cheryl 
too. Egg nog maybe? LOL. 

Ken wanted pizza on low carb tortilla, best one yet!

Once we were finished, we sat outside and enjoyed an evening fire! 

Reminds me of the one we had last night in campground. 

Monday morning we were out of the house and stopped next door to say good bye to Karen and the furry kids. Mugsy looked really sad and wouldn't even lift his head as I went over to hug him goodbye. :( 

Hit the road planning on heading towards Vegas and finding some place to stay the night. Right before we got to Tonopah Ken told me he'd been thinking someway different. We turned onto Highway 6 and then made a right later on 375 (The extraterrestrial highway). 

We stopped at the Aleinn and had our lunch in the Mansion! :)

There were chips added too. Yummy! It was special, our first
day on the road.
We added wine and a "beer"...

Got ourselves on the road and headed for Caliente, NV and Ryan Kershaw State Park to spend the night. We were the only ones there until after dark when an suv with a car top tent pulled up. Ken had made a great fire, but I was too lazy to go inside and get the phone. The only drawback to this park, there is no cell service at all! I wasn't able to let Ken's mom and others know where we were until after leaving this morning. 

Sunset was awesome! 

Some spots are huge! 

Just gorgeous mountains all around...

This morning while Ken was dumping I went and saw the Ranger on duty. We needed a new state parks pass as the one Ken had expired in September. When we got there last night, no one was on duty, so we paid the $25.00 for the night with electricity. Today the pass was $30.00 which will get us free camping (no hookups) or $10.00 with electrical. Can't beat that!

We headed out to Cedar City, Utah and then onto highway 14 which will take you to Cedar Breaks National Monument. We've been before and it's breathtaking, but so is this highway! 

This is across the road from where we are camped..reminds
of a Flintstone house..

We stopped and had another copycat lunch around 1400 (that was special too). We lost an hour entering Utah. Had a beautiful drive on 89A and now we're here boon docking in this amazing spot. Tomorrow we'll head towards Flagstaff and get on I 40 for a while. We've got a few things we want to do before we get to Arkansas 😀

Rock and stone house across the road from our boon docking
place. The grandkids always loved coming here! 

Those mountains would be climbed by grandkids while
i made lunch..such awesome memories. 

Friday, November 10th was the Marine Corps 248th Birthday. So of course our Marines had to celebrate. Every year Russell gets a bunch of Marines together at Old Town Pizza and they celebrate! This year Seth was able to join in too along with it being Seth's real birthday (22) ! It's also grand nephew's Owen 9th birthday!

That's our Marine! Ken made this picture his screensaver
because he looks so happy! Happy Birthday Marines!!

Melissa at front, John, Lori, Russell and Andrea 💖

John, Dylan, Seth (HappyBirthday 2 x) Russell 💙

Russell, Allissa, her friend and Antoine! 💙

MARINES!!!

At the end of the week Adam was able to spend a little more time with his parents in Arkansas before having to catch a plane back to CA on Sunday. 

Adam and Raider 💗

Russell and Lori are in Florida for a few weeks. They are spending the first week with friends and then will spend Jacob's birthday and Thanksgiving with him. Aaron and Kenna are flying in to have Thanksgiving there too. It'll be a great family reunion for them. 

Russell enjoyed his visit to Ace Hardware in Florida! 
100 round drum that shoots 45 acp! :) 

Do you think they're having fun! Russell, Dee, Katie, Sy and Lori

Russell enjoyed his first visit to Buc-ee's! 

Adam and Cheryl's mom, Linda

                                                                 Linda, Cheryl and Bryan💙

That's it for the catch up. Hate to think if I did last week too..LOL. 

Have a great evening. We're are certainly enjoying!