InvictaMoto's Family Travels

With quite a few blogs covering travels that Claire and I have done over the years it was getting too much to manage and so using the Blogger export and import tool, I have merged them here. Now almost only in one place. One blog won't export/import from its home location as apparently I have exceeded the number that can be imported.....  "Come back later" it says....

Looking at 2016. The chance to go to Norway fell through and so we have booked another trip to the US for earlier in the year, The way the timeshare "trading value" works means that after booking the US week, it leaves (hopefully) enough in the bank for another week. So I am looking at Spain later in the year , 2016. We like the Malaga area. It's where we have been before in October. It's warm, sunny and it's easy to chill. Let's see what RCI can offer. At the moment there a very few resorts showing their availability for October 2016. I will keep checking back over the next few weeks and months.

The Meldrews squad from the last two years have saddled up again for the trip in 2016. Added to the group for 2016 are Ian and Paul, both Laguna Ashford RAT members. This year is the Centenary of the Battle of the Somme and across the battlefield there are commemorations to mark the occasion. So far only the main event at Thiepval has published details and a ballot to attend the ceremony. We have all entered  and wait now until late November before we know if any of us has been successful. As the others come online we need to apply for those as well. I emailed the hotel with a list of members and asked for the same rooms again. Hopefully this year Claire will accompany me.

The problem with planning a trip some seven months before you go is that you start to build in more and more, make changes and discard some things.... My plan is to spend the second week "On the Road" with two night stops in Williams AZ for the Grand Canyon Railway and again at Lake Havasu to chill out before flying home are sealed in concrete. But that leaves a couple of other nights. Photo by Neill DeVall ( http://dmd66.blogspot.co.uk/ ) My brother recently stayed in the Wigwam Motel in Holbrook AZ and although he sait it was quite noisy due to the trains that pass in the night, I decided the experience isn't to be missed. He booked us in for the first night after we leave the timeshare in Scottsdale, so that's one overnight ticked off. We'll take earplugs! A bit of re-jigging and I have created another night to allow us to drive north of I40/R66 to the Navajo lands to Monument Valley. The loop from Holbrook via Kayenta to Flagstaf