The way of the desert

We are off to Zion National Park in southern Utah!

Pray: (a) we find a campsite (b) we don't stop in Vegas to earn more gas money and (c) for no CHPs or NHPs or UHPs (we are going through 3 states)

General's Headquarters

Shafter, CA would just be another farm town if not for these two Bergens. We drove all of 2 hours to our first destination and were greeted with smiling faces and a backyard BBQ. It is fitting that we start our trip to Memphis with some BBQ, though I doubt we will encounter this kind of cooking again. We ate pheasant...freshly prepared today by Jacob Bergen. He and his wife Kathleen gave us a place to relax and some pilaf to munch...and we were even surprised by a visit from brother Rob and sister Darcie as they migrated back to the OC.

Shafter means "success" in some native American dialect from some tribe somewhere.


Pedicures...of course.


Jake giving himself a pedicure. Or Jake recovering from a stubbed toe on the after-dinner stroll around Shafter.

But first let me introduce myself.

We are Mike (left) and Katie (right).  Here is a photo from our first date.  Things haven't changed much.  We are crazy about love and take it out on each other.  Come along and ride on our, fantastic voyage!