Thanks for the invite to California, Amos. Although I am a Californian by birth, I will not make it out that way this trip. To my way of thinking, doing the great Southwest and the western coastal states would be another whole trip in itself. So this time we will head north and northwest at the Trinity River and go until we see the Great Divide. M-m-m-m now you've got me thinking about the trip after next. (Next year, BTW, we are hoping to go to the UK!)