Our trip quiz

What was your favorite place that we went?
Ray: Yellowstone
Kerry: Leanne’s / I-FLY Utah
Parker: Uncle Alson’s and Aunt Martha’s
Preston: Aunt Martha’s /

What was your favorite RV park?
Ray: Outdoor Resorts of America Pacific Shores Motorcoach Resort, Newport, OR
Kerry: Newport, OR Pacific Shores
Parker: Newport, OR Pacific Shores
Preston: Newport, OR Pacific Shores

Who was your favorite dog?
Ray: Tasha and Holly (tie)
Kerry: Tasha
Parker: Tasha
Preston: Tasha or the 2 poodle/goldens at Newport, OR

What was your favorite hike?
Ray: Trail of Mosses in Hoh Rainforest, Olympic NP
Kerry: The 3mi hike in Glacier along the Trail of the Cedars and Avalanche Creek
Parker: Cleetwood trail in Crater Lake NP from Rim Drive to Crater Lake
Preston: First hike in the Redwoods (Simpson / Reed Trail)

What was your favorite National/ State Park?
Ray: Yellowstone, but Olympic was a close second
Kerry: Grand Teton
Parker: 1st was Yellowstone, and 2nd was Glacier
Preston: Grand Teton

What was your best day?
Ray: The day spent at Glacier NP
Kerry: The day in Victoria
Parker: The day we shot guns at the vineyard
Preston: The day we went home

What was your favorite cup of coffee/ frappachino?
Ray: Morning at Pacific Shores, sitting in passenger seat watching Yaquina Head lighthouse out front window
Kerry: The Venti Carmal Macc when we got to CAL
Parker: N/A
Preston: In San Fran after the cable car

What was the best book you read?
Ray: Innocent Man, by John Grisham
Kerry: Kiss Me While I Sleep by Linda Howard
Parker: The half of The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
Preston: Point Blank (an Alex Rider book) by Anthony Horwitz

What was your favorite state? (Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Washington, Oregon, California)
Ray: Wyoming (Grand Teton and Yellowstone)
Kerry: Montana (Big Sky country)
Parker: tie between Washington and California
Preston: Oregon (for the beaches)

What was your favorite city?
Ray: San Francisco
Kerry: San Francisco, CA
Parker: San Hose
Preston: Salt Lake City, UT

What was your favorite Brady Bunch episode?
Ray: Deacon Jones shows Peter he’s not a sissy if he sings in the glee club
Kerry: The one where proved she was “just as good as boys”
Parker: The one where Mike drives off a cliff and kills all 8 of the Bradys
Preston: He liked them all

Who was your favorite repairman?
Ray: Mike in Idaho Falls – he was the most knowledgeable
Kerry: Bob in West Yellowstone
Parker: Mike
Preston: Liked them all

What was your biggest surprise?
Ray: That we had great weather everywhere we went
Kerry: That most of the people we met in the RV parks were from southern states FL, GA, NC, SC
Parker: How much fun I had at Uncle Alson and Aunt Martha’s
Preston: That the last hotel was nice

What was the funniest thing?
Ray: Driving a 34ft Rv down the Mormon Road (dirt) in Grand Teton
Kerry: The new “high” toilet in the RV, the “Road Closed to Poopy Conditions” sign
Parker: Aunt Leanne
Preston: The RV leaning so much

What did you miss most about home?
Ray: Bed and pillows
Kerry: Jingle
Parker: Sharp 52” high definition LCD TV, and my bed
Preston: Jingle and my comfortable bed

What is one difference you noticed about the NW vs the SE?
Ray: “Sure it’s hot, but it’s a dry heat…”
Kerry: Cool temps
Parker: The air
Preston: People are thinner, the air is cleaner and not as humid

What is the strangest thing you saw?
Ray: Street performer in SF playing what looked to be a cross between a violin and an accordion
Kerry: Some really odd tattoos
Parker: Dumb people (such as the three people I live with) that got OUT of their cars to observe and photograph a BEAR that was 20 ft away!
Preston: Some of the people – huge earrings stuffed inside their ears (the fad here is to place a ring in the lower section of your ear (like tribal people) then increase the width of the ring over time so you eventually have a huge opening in the earlobe)

What was the prettiest place you saw?
Ray: Grand Teton NP
Kerry: The snow capped mountains of Grand Teton
Parker: Crater Lake’s “sapphire water”
Preston: Oregon coast at Pacific Shores

What was the most fun thing you did?
Ray: (1) Canoeing with Preston at Glacier NP, and (2) skeet shooting at Alson’s house
Kerry: The horseback ride in Yellowstone (I think I’m still sore in places)
Parker: Shooting Shotguns at the vinyard
Preston: Walked on the beach

What was the best PBJ lunch spot?
Ray: Inspiration Point at Grand Teton NP
Kerry: Teton Pass
Parker: California coastline
Preston: ?

When did you run out of words?
Ray: Redwood National and State Parks – kept saying “now that’s a big tree” over and over again
Kerry: When I was struggling from lack of Carmel Macchiatos
Parker: Every afternoon at about 5 ‘o’ clock when I started getting sleepy
Preston: When we were at the restaurant with Uncle Alson and Aunt Martha after I had been swimming all day with Tasha


Now here’s your quiz (answers tomorrow)
Guess how much we spent on gas?
Guess how many pictures we took?
Guess how many miles we traveled in the RV?
What was your favorite blog entry?