[goalerjones]

Driving this summer despite the fuel costs for vacation...left So Cal/San Diego at midnight thursday the 3rd. Got to the Grand Canyon around 11am the following day (great location was given to us by a local where there were almost no other visitors). Left there and spent the night at a hotel in Grants NM. We got to Chicago yesterday (Jul 6th) around 6pm.

We will stay here for 4 days, then go to see frinds and relatives in Wisconsin for 2 days, then on to Minesota for my wife's relatives for an additional 4 days, then home via S.D. the black hills and Mt Rushmore, and maybe see Hoover Dam again, post-bypass construction. Planning to be back home July 20th.

I'll post more pics as I get them...