Archive for May 2024
MAY 22: FINALE, everyone is home safe!
This trip has been a blast, now it’s time to finish the solo run back across the USA for home. I’m not sure yet how successful we were at raising money for our charities, I’ll scope that out in the next couple of days. However the $$ donations comes out, we sure spread the word…
Read MoreMAY 18-19: Heading Home & Afterthoughts
Like most of our days on this quest, May 18 had a mixture of unexpected disappointment and fantastic-ness. Our appearance at the Santa Monica/ LA Children’s Hospital Walk & Play event didn’t happen, for logistical reasons. When that appearance fell through, we changed gears and decided to head home a couple of hours earlier than…
Read More“All I Wanna Do is Make it to Santa Monica Boulevard” (apologies to Sheryl Crow)
Well….we made it! We woke this morning had breakfast and headed out from Arcadia to the Petersen Car Museum (on the must do list for all of us) via I-210 and 60. It was typical LA traffic and we had enough of it for John to say, “I don’t want to do that again”. But…
Read MoreInsights on “Must Do” on Route 66 and Their Outcomes
This trip of the Cousins 3 (C3) was a full year in planning. One of the early decisions was to make it a fundraising project combined with a fun road trip. All our efforts on both aspects have been rewarding, but just as a reminder the fundraising for cystic fibrosis and for colorectal cancer causes…
Read MoreMAY 17: Petersen Museum, Santa Monica Pier, END OF THE LINE!
On this last day of our trip, we chanced to meet Dr. Roger Clemens, a research physician with many interests and teaching credentials, whose career cannot be summed up succinctly here. Suffice it to say, he was very interested in our quest to raise money for Cystic Fibrosis and Colorectal Cancer charities, and spoke with…
Read MoreBarstow, The Mojave Desert, & The San Gabriel Mountains
Today we left Barstow and started the next to last leg of our journey. We gassed up before hitting the highway. Upon seeing the per gallon price I had gas! We got off the highway before San Bernadino to take a different route to Arcadia via both the San Gabriel and Sierra Pelona mountains of…
Read MoreMAY 16: Barstow to Arcadia, CA via Killer Roads: did they Kill the Cousins???!
This one started out with a small disappointment: Barstow’s Route 66 Museum was to be our big thing, but it was CLOSED on Thursdays…surprise to us. SO, nothing else to do but drive.We left for Arcadia, California, where we reserved our hotel for the night. Mike mapped out an exciting route, taking us through some…
Read MoreKingman, Barstow, San Bern….oh wait, not there yet!
Our day Wednesday started in Kingman at the Route 66 Museum in the Powerhouse. We met up with Joyce Wiley an administrative assistant at the museum and supporter of our cause for a photo shoot and introduction to the museum displays. It is a wonderful museum with two particularly interesting galleries which relate the stories…
Read MoreMAY 15: Kingman Bike, Museum, Shanghai friends, Route 66 Scenic Overload, Oatman Burros, Bagdad Cafe
This started out as a normal day: wake up, get dressed, ride the folding bike, go for food at the breakfast bar, but first check to be sure the Cobra made it safely through the night. SURPRISE: Someone left me a small HotWheels model Cobra on the dashboard, with a mysterious note… What a mystery!…
Read MoreFlight from Scottsdale to Flagstaff via Sedona
Now I know that the title of this entry is probably a bit confusing, so allow me to explain. No we did not take any aircraft to Flagstaff but the roads we drove, specifically 89 & 89A, were very good pavement with fantastic curves and switchbacks all with proper camber and with the cars we…
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