This page will contain information relevant to the trip my sisters and I will be taking to recreate the route of my granddad’s journey.

Our Route
Our Car
The Sisters

 

Our Route

Below are a list of cities that Lloyd traveled thru.  I have a link to the google map to show how we plan on driving between the cities.  Any city without a link is included in the link that is below it it.   You can see that we are not on the interstate unless that is where the route of the road went.  We are often on the “Old” US highway and even on cut off roads from the US Highways.   With all the realignments of the highways over the years, it is impossible to follow “exactly” the route but we should be within a mile of it on most of the journey.

• North Carolina
  1. Winston-Salem
  2. Charlotte
  3. Belmont
  4. Gastonia
  5. Lincolnton
  6. Hickory
  7. Rutherford College
  8. Morganton
  9. Bridgewater
  10. Marion
  11. Asheville
  12. Mars Hill
  13. Hot Springs
• Tennessee
  1. Newport
  2. Knoxville
  3. Clinton
  4. Rockwell
  5. Sparta
  6. McMinnville
  7. Murfreesboro
  8. Nashville
  9. Springfield
  10. Guthrie
• Kentucky
  1. Hopkinsville
  2. Nebo
  3. Henderson
• Indiana
  1. Evansville
  2. Vincennes
  3. Terre Haute
• Misouri
  1. St Louis
  2. St Charles
  3. Boonville
  4. Fulton
  5. Independence
  6. Kansas City
• Kansas
  1. Kansas City
  2. Lawrence
  3. Topeka
  4. Kanopolis
• Colorado
  1. Deer Trail , part 2 actually stops in Grainfield
  2. Denver
  3. Longmont
  4. St Vrain Canyon
  5. Estes Park
  6. Longs Peak
  7. Big Thompson Canyon
  8. Longmont
  9. Lookout Mtn
  10. Ft. Collins
• Wyoming
  1. Cheyenne
  2. Rock River
  3. Green River
• Utah
  1. Salt Lake City
  2. Nephi
  3. Fillmore
  4. Old Cove Fort
  5. Beaver
  6. Leeds
  7. St George
• Nevada
  1. St Thomas
  2. Las Vegas
  3. Search Light
• California
  1. Goffs
  2. Ludlow
  3. Oasis
  4. Barstow
  5. Victorville
  6. Riverside
  7. Pasadena
  8. Los Angeles
  9. Burbank
  10. Piru
  11. Ventura
  12. Burbank
  13. Los Angeles
  14. Venice
  15. Ocean park
  16. Hollywood
  17. Los Angeles
  18. San Pedro
  19. Long Beach
  20. Santa Ana
  21. San Diego
  22. Tijuana Mexico
  23. Descanso
  24. Imperival Vally
• Arizona
  1. Yuma
  2. Dome
  3. Sentinel
  4. Gila Valley
  5. Phoenix
  6. Superior
  7. Devil’s Canyon
  8. Geronimo
• New Mexico
  1. Lordsburg
  2. Deming
• Texas
  1. El Paso
  2. Kent
  3. Ft Stockton
  4. Ozona
  5. San Antonio – outside of San Antonio part 1, part 2
  6. Camp Travis
  7. Houston
  8. Luling
  9. Rosenberg
  10. Sugarland
  11. Beaumont
  12. Orange
• Louisiana
  1. Lake Charles
  2. Mermentau
  3. Morgan City
  4. New Orleans   part 2
  5. Lutcher
• Mississippi
  1. Purvis   part 2
  2. Meridian
• Alabama
  1. Selma
  2. Montgomery
  3. Tuskegge Institute
  4. Aurburn
• Georgia
  1. LaGrange
  2. Louise
  3. Atlanta
  4. Athens
• South Carolina
  1. Greenville
  2. Spartanburg  –  Gafney
• North Carolina
  1. Gastonia
  2. Charlotte

 

Our Car

The only similarities between our car and Lloyds are

• It’s black
• It’s a car
• I bought it in North Carolina
• I bought it used

I bought the car in August 2014 because I have a father-in-law living with me and a granddaughter that was born September 17th. The two door car I had just didn’t work. After looking for three months and test driving every car around, I found the BMW. But it was the end of the model year and the Series 5 I wanted could not be found. Since I needed the car before the birth, I asked about pre-owned. That’s when the dealer showed me the 640i. I loved it. This car has everything, unlike Lloyd’s.

 

The Sisters

Lloyd was our granddad and his son Lloyd B Smith Jr was our dad. I would love to be sharing this with either of the Lloyds but both have passed. We all grew up in Lenoir North Carolina. Susan, sister 1, still lives in Lenoir and is a math instructor at Caldwell Community College. I (Claire) am sister 2 and I live in Carolina Beach North Carolina. I’m a remote employee for SAS Institute, in Cary North Carolina. I’m a geek. Pam is sister 3 and lives in Granite Falls North Carolina. She teaches chemistry at South Caldwell High School.

When we travel, July 2015, Susan and Pam will be out of school. I on the other hand will have to take vacation, but, I will work some half days from the back seat of the car. That’s the great thing about the internet, all you need is a wireless hotspot and you can have access almost anywhere. Can you imagine what Lloyd and his friends would have thought about the resources we will have at our finger tips?