Highway 1 Trip, Part 1 by Grace

My family and I went driving up Highway 1 in California in the Dormobile. We decded to do this because we were going to get a new/old car and not just any old car, a RANGE ROVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Range Rover was in Redwood Valley, CA. So, we decided to make a vacation out of the trip.

Yeah this may seem crazy, to take a 1968 Dormobile 2,444 miles round trip. But the only thing bad that happened was a flat tire.

We set off from Tucson on Sunday, June 12th. That night we spent in a hotel in Laughlin, NV. The plan for Monday was to get to the coast, but we didn't quite make it and spent the night in Bakersfield, CA. The third day was the real start of our vacation.

We drove out of Bakersfield towards the coast and visited Paso Robles. This is one of my parents favorite places to visit wineries. We visited a few. It was boring!!!
Finally, we got to the coast!!!!!!!!!!!! We camped at San Simeon State Park. The beach was just a little way from our campsite.We watched the tide come in, and the sunset.

The next we visited the Hearst Castle, but that is for the next post.

Rover Divas are in Arizona Driver Magazine by Grace

Look at us were in another magazine!!!!!!!

We are in the Arizona Driver Magazine the May/June Issue.

The article is about the Overland Expo.

Here is a photo of the article. Sorry it is so little, but if you click on the picture of the magazine. It will take you directly to the current issue of the magazine. We are pictured on page 6.

Easter at Turkey Creek by Grace

On Friday, of Easter weekend, I went camping. We went in the Dormobile to Turkey Creek.  

We set up camp and stamped eggs.  

For dinner we made cheese wrapped in ham, wrapped in chicken, wrapped in bacon.  We cooked them in the Dutch Oven.  Yum!!

Saturday I hiked to a cliff dwelling.  It was a Salado Indian site and was tiny.  

We hiked back to camp and dyed Easter eggs.  

I made an airplane and threw a ball against a cliff.

I started a fire with no matches.  It was fun and the second time I had done this.  

This is how I built it. 

1.  I shredded sycamore bark, then put it in the fire ring. 

2. I then put old leaves on the bark.

3.  Then twigs and sticks. 

4. Got an ember left from an earlier fire.  Then I blew on the ember.

5. And blew

6. And blew

7. And Fire!!!

8.  Then I put on leaves and twigs.  You have to be careful not to let it go out.

9. Add sticks and branches. Keep careful watch!

10.  Before you know it you are adding tree branches, and your fire is a real campfire.

We had our Easter dinner on Saturday night.  My parents had Rack of Lamb.  I don't really like that so I got peanut butter and jelly.  Much better!!

I set out two baskets one with eggs for the Easter Bunny to fill and one with just grass.  

On Easter I opened my baskets.  

My Dad went and hid the eggs and I had an Easter egg hunt.  It was fun!!

Soon we were packing up and heading home. 

Izabella's "Top 3 Disco Youtube Clips", .........for now anyway!!!

 I have been looking at youtube clips since we got our Disco 3 years ago, and I think I finally chose my favorites.  I like to watch them with the volume turned up to get the full effect.  It is amazing to see all that they can do.  I am not going to write to much, the videos say enough! 


So here they are............................ENJOY!!...............

1.   Thee Most Awesome

2.  Awesome
 

 3.  More Awesomeness!!!!!!!

It is cool to see in just a few minutes how the Discovery began, and how it looks now in 2011!

I LOVE MY DISCO 

AZLRO Rally 2011 - My Saturday Adventure - by Grace

Trip Information:

Land Rovers: LR4 and 2 Dormobiles

Drivers:  All women!!

Diva: Grace

Trail: Queen Creek

At the trail line-up we took this picture with Bill Burke.  Bill Burke is an awesome off-road guy.  He put us on his Facebook page.  You can also check out his website.  My Mom, Dad and the other Diva Dad's took a three-day trail leader training course from Bill Burke in January. 

  I had to go on Queen Creek since my Mom was a trail leader.  I was a little disappointed since the other divas were going on a different trail. 

This the LR4 on our trail.  It was its first time in low range, extended mode and off-road.  Awesome!!!  Get Dirty!!!

These are the wagon tracks.  When I think of wagon tracks I think of little skinny wheel tracks that don't even make an impression on the ground.  These are different.  They are from ore carts from a silver mine that was run between 1887 - 1909.  You can even see where the hoofs of the horses were.  

Next we went to the old townsite of Pinal.  This was a can lid we found.  There is lots of cool junk left, but the buildings are just mounds of dirt 

Updated Trip Information: 

Land Rovers: LR4, 2 Dormobiles, 4 Discos, 1 Range Rover, 1 G-Wagon with Land Rover Badges (it was funny!!)

Drivers: 3 women and some boys

Divas: Grace, Izabella, Sydney, Samantha and Sophia

Trail: Still Queen Creek

At lunch all of the trail leaders from the rally, who did not have a trail joined us for the rest of the day.  In the end there were 7 trail leaders on my Mom's trail.  Who was the trail leader??  They were all fighting over it and kept passing each other to be the trail leader!!

After lunch we headed up to the rock shelters.  Here are the LR4's boys exploring one of the rock shelters.  These rock shelters are between 800-1000 years old.  We found pottery that dates back to that time. 

There are also Pictographs and Petroglyphs at one of the rock shelters. 

We went in with 3 Land Rovers and came out with 7 Land Rovers and 1 German Thing!!

It turned out to be a very fun day!!!

The Pima Air and Space Museum

TRIP INFORMATION

By:Sydney

 A Dealer event from Royal Land Rover in Tucson

THANK YOU!!!!!

Where:  Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona

Date:   December 12, 2010

Divas:  Sydney, Izabella, Grace, Samantha and Sophia

Land Rovers:  2003 Disco, 96' Disco, a.k.a. SALLY, 68 Dormobile, a few LR3's, LR4's and a couple of  newer Range Rovers!

This  weekend  all  the Rover Divas went to Pima Air And space Museum.  This is my favorite museum in Tucson.  I love airplanes and Space.
          We had a tour on a tram of all the old planes outside the museum.  We saw old bombers, a guppy, and some cool jets.  We also saw lots of different helicopters. 

After lunch we had lunch with all the other Land Rover owners outside the Space center.

After lunch we went to a few hangars to look at more planes.    We played  in half  of an air  plane  controller !!!!!!!!!!!!! I pretended I was a pilot.  I was sad they took the simulator away.  I rode in that three times before.  It makes you feel like a pilot. 

  

  I thought they  were  all wonderful
  I couldn't decide on my favorite plane. There is one really small plane.  It is called the bee, it is painted like a bumble bee.  Its a perfect size plane for me.  The other planes are super big. Walking under them makes you feel really, really small. 

 This is a F-107A, and one of my favorite planes at the museum.  I really love the shiny red paint!

Four little Land Rovers in front of planes.

                                                                 Three cars three planes!!!!!!!!!!!!


























Five  little air planes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Grace's Fall Break - Trip to Chaco Canyon - Days 7 - 9

On Friday morning we packed up and left Chaco Canyon.  

Here are Felicty and Gracie dressed for a Land Rover Safari Adventure. 

We headed toward Farmingtion, NM, when my parents realized that Aztec ruins was just another 10 miles up the road.

This is kind of weird. The band of blackish/greenish rocks.  I have never seen this before.  It is especially interesting because they plastered over it.  So, why did they do it?

The people of Aztec had two Great Kivas.  One of the Great Kivas was reconstructed and we were able to go into the kiva.  It might have been what kivas looked like a 1000 years ago.  There are three types of Kivas.  Great Kivas, Keyhole Kivas, and Housed Kivas.  Great Kivas are really big.

  This is an original ladder from Aztec ruins.  I always thought of the Sante Fe ladder, but these were very common in both Aztec and Chaco.  In Chaco there were no ladders left, because they were scavenged for firewood.  Another thing that makes me sad.

After visiting Aztec Ruins we went to Four Corners Monument.  Four Corners is where Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico all meet in one place.

It was really fun.  You can say "I'm in AZ, no wait, NM, no wait, CO, no wait, UT, no wait, I am in them all.


After Four Corners we headed to Canyon de Chelly.  We got there after dark and camped at the campground.

We drove the south rim of Canyon de Chelly the next morning and I heard all about the time my parent's got to camp at the base of Spider Rock.  Maybe someday I will get to do that.


Our next and last stop was Hubble Trading Post.

We were lucky enough to get to go inside the Hubble House.  Here I am in the entrance way.

This is bread oven.  I think they said they baked 250 loaves of bread a week in this oven. 

 Cool Barn!! Sometimes they had up to 10,000 sheep here!  I bet that was stinky!!

Here I am with my 6 Junior Ranger Badges and patches.

The last night we spent at our friend's cabin in Show Low, AZ.  We are so glad we could stay there in comfort and hot showers after 8 long days in the Dormobile.  Thanks Tom and Jane.

I had an awesome time.  On to our next adventure!!!