Fall Color Tour - Wrap-up
Monument Valley
May 31, 2010Oceano, CA -- June 27, 2010 -- We returned from our year-long trip around the USA after traveling almost 11,000 miles and through 35 states in 51 weeks.
The Northwest
We traveled in our 37 foot motorhome, towing a Jeep Wrangler north to Eureka, California, Florence and Bend, Oregon, then headed eastbound across Idaho with stops in Nampa, Caldwell and Victor, West Yellowstone, Montana to visit Yellowstone National Park.
The Midwest
The drive across the midwest took us through Cody and Cheyenne, Wyoming, Greenwood, Nebraska, Kankakee, Illinois 50 miles south of Chicago.
New England
We took a 4-day drive to New England through Akron, Ohio, Jamestown, New York, Oneida, New York, then north through the beautiful Adirondacks region before ferrying over Lake Champlain to Burlington, Vermont. The arrival in Bangor, Maine via the northern part of New Hampshire with an overnight in Berlin completed the eastern route.
From Bangor, we started the southbound portion along I-95 through New England with stops at Northwood, New Hampshire, Salem, Massachusetts, North Branford, Connecticut.
The East Coast
We spent a month in Jersey City, New Jersey (New York City) before heading south to Dumfries, Virginia, Four Oaks, North Carolina, and Swansea, South Carolina.
Winter in Florida
The mid-winter months started in Davenport (Orlando), Mims, where we witnessed the launch of Space Shuttle Endeavor, STS-130, and then to the southernmost part of the trip, Homestead, Florida just outside of Miami, with a weekend drive to Key West. From Homestead, we continued our Florida winter at to Fort Myers, Homosassa and then finally Pensacola.
The South
A week in New Orleans was marked the beginning of Spring. From New Orleans, we started our 'S' curve through the south via Alexandria, Louisiana, Little Rock, Arkansas, Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee where we took in the Grand Ole Opry and just missed the great flood of 2010 by a few hours.
The Southwest
Our westbound trek started with Branson, Missouri, Dodge City, Kansas, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Cortez, Colorado and Flagstaff, Arizona where we spent a weekend at the south rim of the Grand Canyon.
Return to California
We returned to California via Hole in the Wall campground and Long Beach before reaching our west coast home in Oceano, California.
For a complete list of the details of the tour, go here and click here for all the photos.
Fall Color Tour
This is our most recent trip, starting on July 3rd, 2009 through June 27, 2010. A twelve month tour going clockwise from the west coast to Oregon, through Yellowstone National Park, across the heartland, New England, down down the east coast to Florida, up through the southern states, and finally across the desert southwest and back to California.