San Diego Trip Cancelled

I have cancelled the San Diego Trip. I cannot get out of my apartment complex. At this time, I don't know if this trip will ever happen.

ES

14 inches of snow!!

That's right, OKC received 14 inches of the white stuff today. That is a new record for single-day snowfall in the month of December. Go figure that it happens two days before I am supposed to leave for the sunny beaches of San Diego.

I have not made a decision yet on the trip, but I will say all options are on the table at this point, whether that means a delay in starting the trip, reroute, or full cancellation of the trip. Believe me, full cancellation of the trip is the very last thing I want to do and will explore all other options before I outright cancel the whole trip. Stay with this blog, it'll keep you advised.

ES

Christmas Eve Blizzard

Well, we aren't just getting snow, we're getting a freakin' blizzard! And, the H.E. Bailey Turnpike is closed from Newcastle to Texas. And I am supposed to be driving on that turnpike on Saturday! So...there is still a possibility of a reroute or delay of the San Diego Trip. :( Stay tuned.

Good news is; I do have the rental car for the trip; a Pontiac G6 with satellite radio! Love me some satellite radio...

ES

Trip route from San Diego to OKC

Here is the planned trip route from San Diego to Oklahoma City. This may change due to weather, but this is what the current plan is:

Friday, January 1:
I-5 North to CA 56
CA 56 East to I-15
I-15 North to I-215
I-215 North to CA 60
CA 60 East to I-10
I-10 East to Tucson, AZ

Saturday, January 2:
I-10 East to U.S. 70
U.S. 70 East to Roswell, NM

Sunday, January 3:
U.S. 70 East to U.S. 60
U.S. 60 East to I-27
I-27 North to I-40
I-40 East to OKC

Tomorrow, I pick up the vehicle that will take us on this trip. Less than 65 hours remain until the start of the trip!

ES

Snow in OKC?!

Well, it looks like we will be getting snow in OK City tomorrow. Yay. At least it's not ice. I guess we may have snow on the ground on Christmas for the 3rd time in my 26 years of living...

Thankfully, this stuff is supposed to be gone by tomorrow night, so we are still planning on leaving for San Diego on Saturday morning as scheduled.

When does summer start?

ES

4 days

Just 4 days remain now until the beginning of the San Diego Trip! In my last blog, I covered the route to San Diego. This post will cover some of the highways I hope to cover while in San Diego. The routes for each day in San Diego haven't been determined yet, but this will give y'all an idea of what I plan to see:

• I-5
• I-15
• I-805
• CA 15
• CA 52
• CA 75 (Coronado Bridge)
• CA 163

The next blog will cover the route for the trip from San Diego to Oklahoma City. Until then, see y'all later, and drive safely.

ES

6 days

Just 6 days remain until the beginning of the San Diego Trip! This post will cover the route we will be taking to San Diego...

Saturday, December 26:
I-44 West to U.S. 277

U.S. 277 South to I-20

I-20 West to Odessa, TX

Sunday, December 27:

I-20 West to I-10

I-10 West to Tucson, AZ

Monday, December 28:

I-10 West to I-8

I-8 West to San Diego, CA

The next blog will have some of the highways I hope to cover on this trip. Until then, see y'all later, and drive safely.

ES

San Diego Trip Update

At this point, (knock on wood) the weather for at least the beginning of the San Diego trip looks good. Cold, but no precipitation. So, hopefully that does not change between now and next Saturday. Within the next 9 days between now and the trip, I plan on posting a summary of what routes I hope to photograph during the trip. Some highways will be covered for the first time since 2004, and there will be some all-new territory covered on the trip.

I am getting anxious and excited about this trip and hope that all goes well!

ES

San Diego Trip to be affected by weather?

The San Diego Trip is scheduled to begin in 11 days, on Saturday, December 26. I am planning on driving from OKC to Odessa, TX, on that day, via I-44, U.S. 277, & I-20. Currently, there are several weather forecasts saying that there will be winter precipitation in Oklahoma late next week. Thankfully, there are still 11 days between now and the scheduled beginning of the trip, but it will be interesting to see what the weather does and if it affects the trip.

If there is winter weather, I would much rather have snow than ice. I have driven in snow on one roadtrip, the Florida Trip in December 2003, where I to reroute the trip from Charlotte, NC, to Murfreesboro, TN, to bypass the NC mountains due to a snowstorm that dumped 8 inches of the white stuff. I still did get to drive through snow between Chattanooga & Murfreesboro but it wasn't very much.

I will keep posting updates on here as time gets closer. Hopefully the weather will cooperate and the trip will go as planned, but this time of year, you never know with Oklahoma weather.

ES

Updates!

It has been 20 days since I last blogged, but I have kept plenty busy in those 20 days. I did the Kansas City roadtrip over Labor Day weekend and the weather cooperated for the most part. It was cloudy for most of the trip but it didn't rain.

Last night, I wrote the captions for the final pictures from the New England roadtrip. Next, I will be writing captions for the pics from the Kansas City trip. I am hoping to have that done by October 15.

After that, my plan is to upload some old pictures from the first half of 2006 onto Flickr, including several trips I made of U.S. highways in Oklahoma & North Texas, and pictures from the West Texas Roadtrip I took back in April 2006, in which I drove through Lawton, Lubbock, El Paso, Las Cruces, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Clovis, Lubbock again, and Amarillo. Highways I took during that trip include I-44 from OKC to Lawton, U.S. 62 from Lawton to El Paso (with a break in Lubbock when I used Loop 289 to bypass the city), I-10 from El Paso to Las Cruces, I-25 from Las Cruces to near Las Vegas, U.S. 84 from Las Vegas to Lubbock, I-27 from Lubbock to Amarillo, U.S. 60 & TX/OK 152 from Amarillo to Elk City, and I-40 from Elk City to OKC. Whew!

By the time I am done with those pictures, it should be close to the San Diego Roadtrip, still scheduled to take place December 26-January 4.

ES

Roadtrip announcement

I am glad to announce the next "major" roadtrip for OKRoads! It is currently planned to take place December 26, 2009 through January 3, 2010, and will take us to San Diego, California, or San Diago as Ron Burgundy calls it. :D The trip route has already been planned out, so here goes:

Saturday, December 26:

Oklahoma City, OK - Odessa, TX

I-44 West to U.S. 277

U.S. 277 South to I-20

I-20 West to Odessa

Sunday, December 27:

Odessa, TX - Tucson, AZ

I-20 West to I-10

I-10 West to Tucson

Monday, December 28:

Tucson, AZ - San Diego, CA

I-10 West to I-8

I-8 West to San Diego

Tuesday, December 29, Wednesday, December 30, and Thursday, December 31:

San Diego area activities TBD

Friday, January 1:

San Diego, CA - Tucson, AZ

I-15 North to I-215

I-215 North to CA 60

CA 60 East to I-10

I-10 East to Tucson

Saturday, January 2:

Tucson, AZ - Roswell, NM

I-10 East to U.S. 70

U.S. 70 East to Roswell

Sunday, January 3:

Roswell, NM - Oklahoma City, OK

U.S. 70 East to U.S. 60

U.S. 60 East to I-27

I-27 North to I-40

I-40 East to Oklahoma City

So there you have it! Of course, this is subject to change as it gets closer, but hopefully it won't change too much from this.

27 days until the Kansas City roadtrip! And only 140 days until the San Diego trip. :D

ES