The Route

Friday 24 April - Flight from Amsterdam to Dallas Saturday 25 April - Pick up motor home in Dallas, drive to Abilene (215 miles)
Sunday 26 April - Abilene to Big Bend Bend National Park (380 miles)
Thursday 30 April - Big Bend NP drive to Guadalupe National Park (280miles)
Sunday 3 May – Guadalupe drive to White Sands National Monument (205 miles)
Monday 4 May – White Sands drive to Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument (205 miles)
Tuesday 5 May – Gila Cliff Dwellings drive to Petrified Forest National Park (250 miles)
Wednesday 6 May – Holbrook drive to Las Vegas (340 miles)
Saturday 9 May – Las Vegas drive to Zion National Park (165 miles)
Wednesday 13 May – Zion drive to Monument Valley Tribal Park (240 miles) Planned serval hikes in this park, we are participating in the lottery for a back country permit for the Subway Hike. We are probably going to hike up to Angels Landing and maybe a part of the Narrows, weather permitting.
Friday 15 May – Monument Valley drive to Arches National Park (151 miles) Planning to do some horse back riding and maybe 4x4 drive.
Tuesday 19 May – Arches NP drive to Rocky Mountain National Park (405 miles) Serveral hikes planned. A visit to Estes Park, a town near the park is on our list and we are hoping to see one of our friends who is living in North Dakota, who will be visiting her daughter in Colorado in May.
Saturday 23 May – Rocky Mountain drive to Denver drop off motor home at El Monte (90 miles) total of 2928 miles without internal driving. We are staying at one of Marriott’s in the centre of town, hoping to find some time to do some sightseeing.
Sunday 24 May – Denver flight to Detroit – Amsterdam
Monday 25 May – Arrival at Schiphol

* This is the planned route, but we might make some changes along the way.

Making plans

After our yearlong trip in the States, we decided to spend our holidays for a couple of years in Europe. In 2007, we did not go on a long holiday, just a couple of weekend away, France, Germany and Luxemburg. I managed to squeeze in a couple of weeks in London too. At the beginning of 2008, we went for 3 weeks to Whistler, Canada on a ski holiday. This gave us the opportunity to catch up with friends of ours who moved to Vancouver just a couple of months before. In September that same year, we drove to the North of Spain for a three-week holiday. This year we are going back to America for another motor home holiday, we simply could not resist. The journey will take us from Dallas, Texas to Denver, Colorado. Currently we are looking into which parks to visit and planning everything we want to visit. This time we will have only one month and it is hard to decide which places to visit, there is simply too much too see in too little time. In spite the fact, this is going to be our seventh motor home trip; we still haven't seen it all.