Then as we headed on to the Canyon, just as we got inside the park there were 2 elk walking across the road! We stopped and took some photos and then kept going. We walked around the rim of the Canyon  and then as we walked down a path, Daddy and Morgan found 4 more elk just walking around. As we headed down the paths we realized there were even more and one of them was a 10 point buck!

We watched them for about an hour as the buck rubbed his rack against a tree and the mother elk was nursing her babies. After we were done watching them, we went to look at the canyon more when we were headed back to the car we found 6 more elk! All standing right off  to the side of the path.

When we started our day, the drive was only going to be less than  1o0 miles in the motorhome and that would have been one of the shortest trips of the summer! But then, since we decided to go to the Grand Canyon in the car, it still ended up being 240 miles round trip because we ended up making another side trip to Sedona that night on the way home for dinner.

So by the end of the day when we arrived back to the motorhome at 10pm, the 100 miles in the motorhome turned into about a 400 mile day with a lot of unexpected adventure. Just the way we love it!

After 5 months of summer we are  back  in our winter home in Quartzsite AZ and beginning to setup our site and pull out a lot of our favorite items from our trailer that we stored over the summer.

We started our summer in Needles, CA and traveled all the way up to WA. On the way we met up with so many friends and fulltime famlies along the way that it feels as if we have friends in every state. Also, this summer we made it to 3 new states: Utah, Idaho and Washington, bringing our total states visited to 33 or 34 I think. We are going to update our decal map soon, so we will know for sure.

This summer we did so many things and I have thousands of pictures to sort through and upload. Our adventures included fairs, amusement parks, museums, national parks, water parks and even the Grand Canyon and Sedona as our final two stops before arriving back in Quartzsite.

Now that we are back in Quartzsite for the winter I am excited to go back over all the pictures and will be working  on the blog to write up all the posts about our fabulous summer. Stay in touch and hope you enjoy!

We saw them earlier this summer and could hardly wait to see them on our return trip! I had so much fun playing with his daughter Austria again! We climbed up the dunes and rolled down, and even had races to see who could get up and down faster! After the dunes we went to the lake that is behind the dunes for a nice cool off after all of that climbing!

Three years ago we met Dave Lakhani at the Rockstar seminar in Las Vegas and when we took a photo together he had to get down on one knee so we would both be in the picture. LOL

Three years later look at us now:

This is why I love traveling, because we get to always meet up with friends and have fun like this with people who are important to us from all over the U.S.!

While we were in Baker City, we were lucky enough to catch the Baker City Fair. My sister and I submitted crafts and photos we have taken this summer. Here are some of the things that we submitted:

Decoupage, photos, beaded jewelery sets, petrified wood collection, and even soap’s we made!

I also submitted my first ever wood burning project, and a wire wrapped stone.

And what was even better was in the end we both got  Blue and Red ribbons for everything we submitted!

I even got 2 Grand Champion ribbons for my photos of chipmunks that I took at the Redwoods, and also my elk wood burning!

When we picked up our ribbons, I got a $47 dollar check and Morgan got a $50 dollar check plus $25 of that was for her second place win in the talent show!

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I still can’t stop laughing…

Taking a break from 4th of July Activities

Taking a break from 4th of July Activities

They pretended we were going to Fry’s Electronics to get headphones for Daddy, but they surprised me when we got there.  While we were in the store, we also started looking at the mini Acer Aspire One notebooks. I started playing with one and all of a sudden all 3 of them shouted Happy Birthday! I did not believe they were serious and then I realized I was going to be taking it home with me.

This is so exciting! My first brand new computer all my own. And I picked a shiny red one with a mouse to match!

Now that I am not sharing a computer with my sister Morgan anymore, she won’t be moving all my icons around any more! Yay me!

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Dave Lakhani and Marina Mulac who was excited to receive and autographed copy of the Power of an Hour!
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Marina and Morgan growing up right before Uncle Ross’ eyes!
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Marina Mulac excited to Meet Coach Deb Micek and making plans to visit in Hawaii during our trip!
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Robert Allen, Marina and Morgan Mulac comparing notes on their latest books! LOL

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