T-minus 8 days and counting...

OK, we are off to a great start. Sam broke her arm last week but the cast will come off the day before we leave. Oh, and she got head lice last week as well but those are gone now. Bryce is nervous about flying and won't break in his hiking boots, but at least hasn't broken anything or brought blood-sucking parasites into our home. I am sick and tired of vacuuming and laundry. 

I figure we won't need to worry about vacuuming OR laundry while we are on our trip. We will live off the land. Picture Dual Survival but with four instead of two. No showers, no housecleaning, no friends. 

Everyone is asking about our itinerary. In a nutshell:
1. Fly to Las Vegas and pick up RV.
2. Zion National Park
3. Grand Canyon, North Rim. Known as the connoisseur's canyon which sounds suspiciously like what they would call Siberia. "Experience the 'Connoisseur's Russia', visit SIBERIA! Stay in one of our recently converted gulag motels. Savor reindeer jerky three times a day. Explore the scenery between June and August when we get three entire hours of sunlight each day! Don't stray from the guide ropes or you won't make it back for borscht wrestling!"
4. Bryce Canyon.
5. Salt Lake City. (But in an RV park in Salt Lake City, so none of those swanky SLC hotels for us, no sir.)

6. Jackson, WY. Just saw this little nugget of info: "Travel Alert: May 18, 2011: Please be aware that Highway 26/89 in the Snake River Canyon has been closed due to a landslide."

7. Grand Teton Nat'l. Park
8. Yellowstone Nat'l. Park
9. Elko, NV. Where? You heard me, Elko, NV

10. Lake Tahoe

11. Yosemite Nat'l Park

12. Sequoia National Forest

13. Barstow, CA. As in "Don't forget Winona, Kingman, Barstow, San Bernandino," from the song Route 66.

14. Las Vegas to return our beloved RV. Perhaps we will fall in love with it and keep it! Perhaps not. 

That's the trip. Sounds fun! Stay tuned for more preparations as we get closer to this "once in a lifetime" event.  

UPDATE: Here is a map...