[CH] Journey to Texas
John Whalen (CHEFCHILE@msn.com)
Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:24:59 -0700
ChileHeads,
In about 5 weeks Effy (with "Baby Chile") and I, will leave the Great
Pacific Northwest on our journey to Texas.
Our quickest route would be to travel through the Rockies, but with the
winter approaching and the baby as well we have decided to take another
route. We plan to travel south through Oregon, and California (if they will
allow us in), then across to Las Vegas for a couple of days, Arizona
complete with the Grand Canyon. We plan to travel through New Mexico then
down through much of Texas.
Tentatively we are planning to begin the trip on Friday November 1st and
arrive in Texas City on about Monday November 11th if not sooner. If anyone
is interested in meeting up with us that would be great. This will be
Effy's big tour of our country and we hope to get in some sightseeing of the
major attractions.
Oregon is beautiful and with the fall in full color it should be worth the
trip. California will be nice as well. I'm not certain, but perhaps
someone can point us in the direction of some interesting sights in
California. Las Vegas will be something for Effy to behold I am sure. So
we are planning to stay a couple of days there. There are some new hotels
that I haven't seen and some other sights that I just plain old missed when
I lived there.
The Grand Canyon will be our next stop. I've been there once and it still
just makes me feel small and insignificant at the sight of what power
created this masterpiece. New Mexico of course will be the next stop. I
have to restock on my Chile Peppers and what better area to do so than New
Mexico.
Now I get confused as to whether we should go through Amarillo and Oklahoma
City then cut down and travel through Dallas, or go through Las Cruces, El
Paso and San Antonio before heading to Houston and Texas City.
We will be leaving a great group of people here in the Pacific Northwest.
We have made many friends and we hope to keep these friendships alive. We
also hope to make new friends in Texas as well as wherever we travel.
We hope to meet many of you along the way. We get great satisfaction being
able to put a face with a name.
Take care and God Bless!
John, Effy and "Baby Chile" Whalen