Would be awsome to see it from the air thought Im not sure I will have time! that said Im coming back in 2016 and making my way up to Alaska for Valdez so I may be able to do it then. I'm pretty keen to get to Las Vegas area as one of our other members who's been in hiding for a while, dog pilot, is talking about taking me for a fly over the grand canyon!

Not to worried about the driving part, Ive done a test itinerary and sort of split the drive up to a few 5 hour drives which for us we wouldn't blink an eye lid at. we get pretty used to 5 - 10 hour drives over here. I work out bush where I do 16 hour drive days to get out there so I'm pretty used to it. just need to get my head around the whole wrong side of the road thing!

The only thing I'm really spewing about is we will have to really drive past all the walks ect, but the drive looks and sounds amazing, and it seems there is no shortage of amazing look outs to stop at along the way!

Well all booked! Get into lax on the 20th of october at 6:50 am, and leave on november second at 11:50 pm.

Cant wait!!!!

Well guys I've come up with a theoretical itinerary, the bit leading up to the HSF is completely Hypothetical, its just a possible idea to I know more about whats going on. However I would love peoples opinions on the trip after HSF from Reno to Vegas. any input people want to give I would be more than happy to take on board, I was just playing on google maps and click on what ever look interesting.

The biggest question I have is I have very limited time to spend (my trip in may to Valdez will be our bigger trip, this is just one of those "bloody hell those flights are cheap!" moments) but if there is one thing we don't have over here, its mountains, just what you would call speed humps. So I want to take as much of it in as possible and defiantly at least do the drive through Yosemite even if it is just a drive. So the question is in order for us to cross through Yosemite, we will need to cross over the range from east to west first, I have just picked the route that looks the nicest from google maps but is there a better option?

anyway, long story short, I've copied and pasted the rough itinerary below, and below that is the google maps link to the route I'm looking at taking at this stage. I know its alot of driving, But we don't really blink an eye lid at a 10 hour drive so we arnt really worried about that. We know we dont really have time to do it all properly so we sort of figured its the scenery we want to take in the most, so we are quite content with a senic drive holiday. Plus only 5 hours driving a day still leaves alot of time for short walks ect.

critique away fellas!

20th arrive in LA 6:50 am
21st LA – Rio vista
22nd Rio Vista –meet with Rob, prep for fly in, fly over to HSF
23rd HSF
24th HSF
25th HSF - Reno
26th Reno –camp richarson 1 hour 30 minutes
27th camp richardson – Yosemite lodge at the falls 5 hours 14 minutes
28th Yosemite lodge – panamint springs resort 5 hours 5 minutes
29th Panamint springs resort – Las Vegas 3 hours 32 minutes
30th Las vegas/Grand canyon flight????
31st Halloween Las vegas
1st Vegas/recover
2nd Drive to LA, Depart 11:50 pm

https://www.google.com.au/maps/dir/Reno ... 699412!3e0

Might need to add one more recovery day after Halloween in Vegas .

If the family doesn't come over with me, which has been the case due to school the last two years, I have plenty of extra room to bring you a full compliment of camping gear: tent, sleeping bag, sleeping pad, chair, etc. Just yell if you are still in need as it gets closer.

If you decide not to do the RV thing and need camping gear, I can lend you the following from my spares:

2-person tent
thermarest sleeping pad
sleeping bag
white gas stove and pots

Let me know if you need it and I can arrange to ship it to Rob - and you can ship it back to me at the end of your trip

I have Tim covered on camping gear.

With all the camping gear being offered to me i could start a small tent city! Rob has been extremley generous and has not only offered to fly me over but offered camp gear aswell. But I would still like to thank everone for all the generosity theyve shown and I would ofcourse if any of you ever make the trip over here, the same will be extended back to you.

Its still months away but im really excited, cant wait to shake everyones hand! So what do you guys think of my route of chosen? Am i on a winner?

low rider wrote:Might need to add one more recovery day after Halloween in Vegas .

Haha yeah thats what i thought but my wife picked the flight dates! I dont drink sonill get to just sit back and laugh the next day!

We figured if we are going to see what this halloween thing is all about, then vegas seemed the place to do it!

If, as you say, you don't mind all that driving, then I think it's a great itinerary! High desert, Lake Tahoe, high Sierra passes, Yosemite, low desert (Death Valley), then Vegas baby! Temps in DV should be getting manageable by late Oct.

Sorry to hear you don't drink. I'm not sure what to do in Vegas Halloween night without drinking. (Just kidding. I'm sure you'll find a wild party to attend!)

Pierre

DrifterDriver, happy to take you to do some stuff in the WilgaBeast. Come find me!

WilgaBeast wrote:DrifterDriver, happy to take you to do some stuff in the WilgaBeast. Come find me!

Mate your going to HSF with WilgaBeast! let me assure you I will be coming to find you! Ill be the one bear hugging your landing leg refusing to let go! it would be amazing if I could go for a fly with you there if possible, have been a big WilgaBeast fan for some time now!

Haha! I'll bring you a shirt then too!

http://www.airresponse.org/store/p7/Wil ... Shirt.html

WilgaBeast wrote:Haha! I'll bring you a shirt then too!

http://www.airresponse.org/store/p7/Wil ... Shirt.html

Yep.....lifes complete.....