On The Road Again!: Big Bend National Park

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Big Bend National Park

We spent three nights in Big Bend National Park. The weather was wonderful. Low 70s in the day and high 30s at night. We traveled two of their many 4WD trails, one 55 miles of off road and the other was 26 miles off road one way. Each one took a full day of driving. Here are some pictures.

We had road runners come into our camp every day.

Most of the cactus were bright pink like the one above. Our campground was just yards from the Rio Grande River that separates the United States from Mexico.

What is left of the Marical Mine.

The Rio Grande River.

Rocky keeping an eye on things.

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45 LDS Temples so far!

San Diego, CA
Redlands, CA
Newport Beach, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Fresno, CA
Sacramento, CA
Medford, OR
Spokane, WA
Billings, MT
Idaho Falls, ID
Rexburg, ID

Bountiful, UT

Draper, UT
Mount Timpanogos Utah
Jordan River, UT
Logan, UT
Manti, UT
Provo, UT
Salt Lake City, UT
St. George, UT
Las Vagas, NV
Mesa, AZ
Albuquerque, NM
Lubbock, TX
San Antonio, TX
Dallas, TX
Oklahoma City, OK
Nauvoo, IL
Omaha, NE
St. Paul, MN
Chicago, IL
Columbus OH
Nashville, TN
Memphis, TN
Atlanta Georgia
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Orlando, FL
Baton Rouge, LA
Houston, TX
Gila, AZ
Brigham City, UT

Oquirrh Mountain, UT

Gilbert, AZ

Phoenix, AZ
Center City Temple, Provo UT.

Carol and Gary's New Journey!

Gary retired on December 28, 2009 and Carol followed him on February 28, 2010. This was the first step in fulfilling our life long dream of full time RVing. Next we traded in our old 27 foot motorhome and bought a new 40 foot motorhome with four slides. We have made several small trips, moved out of our house in Santee, and started to live in our Motorhome. We did not officially leave San Diego full time RVing until June of 2010. We eventually sold our house while we traveled across the United States on a Church History, Temple and visiting Family along the way journey. We would camp in a place and do day trips in every direction. We would usually move every two to three weeks to a new area. We would always be visitors at our Church and would be asked to stand and introduce ourselves. When I did, one day in a little town in Tennessee, the Bishop said to me that I should talk to Brother Tripplett. He could hook me up on a Mission. Well, just happened that I was sitting right next to Brother Tripplett. He leaned over to me and said: "Son, I could put you on a Mission where you are wearing blue jeans, T shirts, riding and riding ATV's in the most beautiful place you could imagine while serving the Lord." That peaked my interest and I said we would talk after Church. After Church we talked for almost 30 minutes. The amazing part of this is that while Brother Tripplett was talking to me about this in Priesthood, Carol was being talked to by Sister Tripplett in Relief Society at the very same time and about the very same thing. They envied us over for dinner and showed us pictures of Heber Valley Camp and their Mission and that's all it took. We were hooked. One thing for sure I know is that God puts certain people in you path for a reason. It is up to you to take advantage of it. Well we did, and we served A Senior Service Mission at Heber Valley Girls Camp from April of 2012 through October of 2013. We loved it so much that we signed on for another Senior Service Mission at Mutual Dell Girls Camp starting in May of 2014 for an anticipated 18 months. Eventually we will continue our Church History, Temple and Family journey and finish the remains States we did not make it to.

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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Big Bend National Park

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