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The first ever Baca family vacation is in the books.

We arrived back in Arizona from our California road trip last Saturday. We were on the road 16 days, lodged at 10 different locations and drove over 2,400 miles. The trip started as a four day stay in Graeagle at a cabin with the Baca cousins. We decided to extend the trip and visit our family and friends all over California.

Our travels took us to Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Visalia, Merced, Los Banos, San Leandro, San Francisco, San Rafael, and Graeagle.

I admit I was apprehensive about such a long road trip with a nine month old. Maggie had never been in the car for more than an hour before this trip. She was a wonderful traveler! Debra spent most of the 2,400 miles in the back seat with Maggie, reading books, singing songs, supplying puffs and an endless stream of toys.

It was a special experience seeing so many family and friends, many of which hadn’t yet met Maggie. The Pacific, San Joaquin Valley, San Francisco Bay Area and Sierra Nevada mountains were just some of the many places we visited. We took over 800 pictures. Here are a few of our favorites.

View the entire collection of photos at Flickr.

Thanks to the Goodmans, Arnolds, Carlsons, Brights, Natalie & Arbie, the Bacas, and Mustads for your generous hospitality. Special thanks to Millicent for organizing the Graeagle gathering.

The great Baca family vacation of 2009 is underway. We’re two days into our 16 day trek across California. The first seven days of the trip will be spent driving around CA introducing Maggie to all of our family and friends. We will then head to a cabin in the high Sierras for three nights for a Baca cousin reunion. The last leg of the trip will be spent meandering back through CA on our way to Phoenix. We’ll probably take in Yosemite and a few other sites along the way.

The first seven hours of the trip were spent traveling through a 120 degree desert on our way to Pacific Palisades. We are happy to report Maggie is an excellent traveler. We’ve spent the last few days staying with cousins Jonah, Millicent and Adam. We took Maggie to meet the Pacific and she loved it. She tasted the sand once and decided she wouldn’t be eating anymore. The water was a bit too cold to take her in, but she seemed to enjoy the beach all the same. Last night we got to join my aunt Lynne and cousin Felicia for dinner in Santa Monica.

See all the pictures posted at Flickr.

The next few days will be spent in the San Joaquin valley. Today we’ll stop to see my good friend Aaron and his family in Visalia. Then it’s off to Merced and Los Banos for few days, seeing friends and relatives and visiting some of my old haunts.