Life at Las Brisas IS GOOD!!! I am sure most of us have all dreamed of retiring in a tropical paradise but never taken them seriously. I know for a fact that had you asked this ole farm boy, from Quebec’s Eastern Townships, ten years ago what his retirement plans were he would have laughed […]

Hit the El Salvadorian border (the last one) about 4:00 pm on day 29 & the fun began! Seems that on my Guatemalan vehicle entry papers they had given me one day to transit the country but I had taken 3, so a letter stating why the delay was in order. Next The Ministerio de Hacienda (Aduna) had […]

Three countries + 3 border crossings are now history & there is light at the end of the tunnel & I am pretty sure it’s not a dirty big ole train. Made it out of Mexico without incident, spent the night at a great hotel only costing 250Q & now it was decision time. Do I take […]

A few miles south of the city things started changing again as we got into the mountains where it was impossible to make any time, loaded as I was. Towns big enough to have accommodations were virtually nonexistent, resulting in my first nighttime driving experience outside Canada or the US. Firstly, narrowly missed a herd of 5 […]

There is something I have to get of my chest concerning the false perceptions of this country, fostered by subtle government interference of the western news media, which skews the reporting so it is actually propaganda, limiting the average persons understanding of world affairs to match that of the countries foreign policy. And the truth be […]

Well we didn’t have one of our finest inspirations when we left Santa Monica Pier shortly after 5:00 pm on a Friday evening! There was a hotel just up the street from the pier but it was a couple hundred /night so decided to pass on that figuring an hour or so down the Interstate something would […]

California wins, hands down the prize for the absolute worst stretch of Interstate bordering the Mother Road in it’s entire length. In fact the Route 66 old alignment is in better shape than California’s stretch of I-4O. When you cross the bridge over the Colorado River which is the border between Arizona & California you wake up […]

Returned to Route 66 at Clines Corners which consisted of a service center whose humongous store contained the largest collection of kitsch & junk  pertaining to  Route 66, or anything else you could think of, west of the Mississippi. Did meet a retired Saskatchewan farmer there, by the John Deere stuff, going to Texas for the winter, […]

Sorry folks have been having a great trip & neglecting my blog, full details to come, however spent a night in Albuquerque NM, Holbrook AZ after seeing the awesome Painted Desert, another bight in Needles CA, 2 at the Wigwam in San Bernardino. Finally got my wire transfer done at Wells Fargo in Fontana & arrived at […]

That’s the best word I can find to describe Roswell NM. It doesn’t feel like a city, more like a friendly small town. The wide streets combined with low buildings, gives it an open & free feel, the auction barn just a couple blocks off the main Street is a business you would never find in […]

Including these 3 states in one posting all 3 are basically plains states & pretty similar in scenery. While Kansas can only claim 13 miles of the route on an early alignment, it should not be bypassed as it clearly shows the hard times facing this section of the country, with more business’s being closed […]

Once west of the Mississippi I always found the country/people more to my liking & it held true this trip. Had only briefly visited Missouri briefly in the Kansas City area before so this trip through the southern part of the state was really cool with the rolling hills & forests. Spent time driving on/off Historic 66, […]

As Wi-Fi in old style motels that are spread out in a motor court, seems to not have enough signal strength to connect in the outlying units my reports may be a couple days old as I write them but can’t upload until I have connection. Also as I couldn’t buy the pertinent guides in Ontario […]

Around 4:00 pm on Saturday October 9, 2010 I had the ultimate pleasure of looking in the rearview, while crossing the Blue Water Bridge from Sarnia to Port Huron Michigan, to see Ontario/Canada fading from my view along with thoughts of all the insane hassles of the past couple months. My welcome to the US for my […]