A few of us here on the East Coast are planning a 2 month trip out West for next year. One of the guys had the bright idea (?) of issuing an invitation to join us to other military retirees and members here on the US Military Campgrounds website. This is NOT an organized tour group....just a bunch of old military guys getting together and hitting the road. No guided tours, meal vouchers, or the rest of that stuff. Everybody pays their own way and does what they want. We will get together each evening for "NCO Call" but even that is optional. We plan on staying at mainly military and Passport America campgrounds to hold down costs (and that we prefer military campgrounds!) so anybody traveling with us must be eligible to use these facilities. Our "general" itinerary is:
Meet up at Pensacola, Florida
A couple of days in New Orleans
Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas
A week in southern Arizona at Tucson
A week in northern Arizona near Flagstaff
A couple of days touring Zion and Bryce National Parks in Utah
An R&R stop for a couple of days in Vegas!
Yosemite National Park in California
Terrorize Larry for a couple of days in the Tahoe National Forest (LOL)
Glacier National Park
Yellowstone / Grand Teton
Cody, Wyoming and Big Horn National Forest
Rapid City, South Dakota (Mt Rushmore, Badlands, Custer SP, etc)
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Head back east to Mammoth Cave, Kentucky....break up from there
We plan on leaving Florida around the end of May and getting up to the mountain areas in June, hopefully avoiding any bad weather. We'll be back east around the end of July. We're all retirees and a pretty fun bunch if I say so myself (well, Monkey44 seems to like us! :blush: )
So if you've always wanted to take a trip out West, but were leery about traveling alone that far, here's your chance! So far, there's four of going, two couples, two singles. If you can't make the whole trip but would like to join us for a part of the trip, that's good too....we're flexible. :laugh:
We'll have to know before the end of the year if anybody wants to join us. Four of us can probably go and make reservations along the way, but any more than that and we'll have to do a little more structured traveling.... especially with reservations in the more "touristy" areas.
Let me know if you're interested, either by replying to this thread or sending me a PM if you're shy!
The only thing wrong with being retired is that you never get a day off!
