This great country

[maria-n-skip]

Some times we forget.

When my wife was 13 she was moved from Sambilia(sp) Spain to Miles City Montana. A scary thought by
anyones imagination. Since that time she has spent most of her time in Montana. This morning her and her
coworker drove to Seattle WA.. I've lived there and have relatives there so I didn't think any thing about it.
This evening she called to let me know she arrived safely. Then chastised me for she couldn't believe how beautiful a place it was. Well Da.....

This is one reason I bought the bus. To show my wife all the wondrous things we who live here forget.
For those of you able to drive down the road this summer as you are going please stop and take in the beauty
we sometimes take for granted. Every part of this country has something special to offer all we have to do
is enjoy what there is.


OK so I'm off my soap box now.

Skip

[Nick Badame Refrig/ACC]

No Skip, your not......

And this thread is on topic too... Take your bus the far corners of our Country and see how beautiful it is.

Great Thread!
Nick-

[Dreamscape]

That is the only reason I bought our coach. There is so much to see and do in this great land we can't possilbly see it all.

This is just one reason.

[Dreamscape]

And one more.

[Sojourner]

Amen!

If your wife like red rock & water falls & sunset...take her to Sedona, AZ in spring while snow is melting.

FWIW

Sojourn for Christ, Jerry

[TomC]

I drove truck for 21 years cross country (been in the trucking industry for 31 years) to the tune of about 1.3 million miles, been in all states many times, Canada.  Have traveled to Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico, Tahiti, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, 18 islands of the Caribbean, Columbia, England, France, Germany, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Italy, and can say without a shadow of a doubt that the United States has the most beautiful natural scenery in the world.  This is one of the many reasons I have my converted bus.  From my truck driving, I know exactly what I want to see with my wife and what I won't waste time on.  Happy traveling.  Good Luck, TomC
PS- if someone told me a couldn't ever leave California, I wouldn't be sad.  California has the most diverse geography and natural beauty of any state.  From beautiful beaches, to the desert, to the high Sierras-the mere fact that we have the giant Sequoias that don't grow anywhere else.  This is not to say that other states aren't also great, I'm just a bit biased.

[RJ]

I live an hour away from one of the most spectacular National Parks in the country, Yosemite.

You'd be amazed at how many folk in this town of 500K have never been there. . . sad.

If anybody goes, be sure to search for Fern Falls - the only waterfall in the park that's twice as wide as it is tall. . .

On another note, following up on what TomC said, I have found that the Mendocino Coast N of San Fransisco is very, very similar to the west coast of Ireland, of all places!

Get in your bus and GO!!

FWIW & HTH. . .

[maria-n-skip]

  And when you've seen what you want to in this country then there is Canada another lifetime
of places to explore......

    Then South of the border which I know nothing about...(maybe I should )

   Darn once again I started a day late and a dollar short.

Skip

[H3Jim]

Russ,
regarding Yosemite, how bus frendly is it?  can you get in and out on all the roads going in?  is there any parking in the valley?

[WEC4104]

No argument here.  The stuff to see is endless, and traveling by bus is the way to do it. (Especially with kids)
Seven years and 27 states into this busing thing, I feel like I haven't scratched the surface yet.

[Hint to Nick: The one in the striped shirt sings Karaoke.]

[edvanland]

Yes SEDONA, ARIZONA is awesome,  I live 15 miles from Sedona in the little town of Cornville.  As others have said there is so much to see in this great country of ours.  Have had the experience of picking up hitchhikers, many years ago, in our MH who were from England and they could not believe the wide open spaces and the beauty of the west.
ED
MCI
PROUD TO BE AND LUCKY ENOUGH to live in and be a AMERICAN

[TomC]

With a bus you was to come in from the north.  There are campsites up to 40ft, and you have to have a reservation to even be let into the park.  Once there, you take shuttle buses everywhere.  Good Luck, TomC

[brojcol]

We moved from Mississippi to Northeastern PA (Wilkes-Barre) in September of 06.  One thing we can't get over is how beautiful the scenery is and how nice the people are.  We came a long way from home and just today, the man who gave me a sticker for my car (Lispi) told me I was "one of us now!"

I don't know how long we'll be here, but every weekend is like an adventure.  If I didn't have to go to work every day, I'd feel like I was on vacation!

I love America and I love Americans!  Even the yankees that I was taught as a child to mistrust are great Americans. 

Funny thing is, the people here seem to take the natural beauty of their home for granted.  One day at work I said, "we think this place is beautiful".  One of my co-workers asked in amazement, "You DO?"

And fall here in the Poconos is out of this world.  Worth a bus trip to see.

[H3Jim]

Tom,

would that be along the Merced river?  there is one pretty tight corner there with scrapes on it.  It almost seems tighter than the  windies coming in from the south.

[Hi yo silver]

Yep, if I had to pick just one reason I want a bus, it would be to take Marilyn to see some of the places I have been privileged to see in the good old USA.  And...to see more of it myself!  God Bless America!
Dennis