My wife and I are onvacation this week and next.  We visited some of her brothers in Menlo Park (San Francisco Bay area) earlier in the week.  Right now we are visiting one of our sons and his family in Hailey, Idaho near the Sun Valley resort where he is the Banquet Bar Manager.

Our plans after the 4th include a drive through Yellowstone National Park (we’ve spent some time in it previously) so that we can take a drive out through the northeast gate and up the mountains there.  It is supposed to be a spectacular drive.  We then plan to travel down the east side of the Rockies to Carlesbad Caverns which my wife has never seen.  Our route takes us through Roswell, New Mexico so I guess we will stop and look for UFO’s.  :-)  We then plan to head back toward home (Huntington Beach, CA) via White Sands, NM, Tucson, AZ (my high school friends), Scottsdale, AZ (her sister and another brother) for a few days and then home.

With any luck, the stock market will be kind to me for the rest of our trip.  I has not been kind so far.