Welcome to our CarrTravels blog. Roger and I have a summer full of coast-to-coast travel ahead of us; the map at the top of this page gives an overview of our route. We’ve chosen this blog to record the high points of our trips and to keep our family and friends up to date as to our whereabouts, and we hope you’ll follow along and share our trip with us. On the menu bar above you’ll see our Itinerary, and under What We’ll See you’ll find the highlights of what we’ll be touring on a particular day. The rest of the pages stand ready to absorb the photos and details of our trip. Once again, Roger has planned out a rich agenda. By the end of our trip, we’ll have added several more notable national parks to our list and increased the number of state capitols we’ve visited to 37. If you’re interested in the vehicle that’s going to carry us to all these places, check out Our BoxCarr on the menu bar.

We welcome you to travel with us vicariously. The easiest way is to simply bookmark this link (https://carrtravels.wordpress.com/) and check in from time to time. If you’d like to receive email updates when new things are added to our blog, just hit the Follow button to the right and follow the instructions. (There’s no need to create an account or do anything other than give your email address.) We welcome your comments too! There’s an option to leave comments with every post and on every page.

Our trip doesn’t begin until July 19, but in the meantime we’ll be taking the BoxCarr on a shorter run over to Pennsylvania to a family gathering and to make sure all systems are go. We hope your own summer will be filled with some good family time together and beautiful travels too. Enjoy!

Yuk! Fortunately no live, jumping bodies in our BoxCarr. Just specks of mouse droppings randomly dispersed and a box of Kleenex that looks like the remnants of a tornado. Enough to merit a top-to-bottom vacuuming of anything approaching enough dust to create a nest. Roger is threatening mousetraps. I’m disgusted at how many corners of the RV they can wiggle their way into.

Today was the first real day of getting our rig in shape for the Big Trip. We have a wee trip planned in 17 days to Pennsylvania for a family gathering. We need to use that time to make certain all systems are working so we can get done whatever repairs are needed. And check to make sure we don’t have any cute little stowaways on board.

Well, not today…or tomorrow. July 19 is out Takeoff Day, when we’ll head west for San Francisco. Eight days of travel through ten states, lots of open road, state capitols, and several hundred pictures will bring us to SF, where we’ll spend a few days with family, then head up towards Seattle for more time with family. Then we’ll head home, arriving on August 14. Twenty-seven days and eighteen states in all, with ten state capitols. We’re still perusing books for other sights to see along the way.