{"id":2114,"date":"2014-08-02T09:30:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T16:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2014-08-02T09:30:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T16:30:12","slug":"the-ultimate-friendship-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/02\/the-ultimate-friendship-road-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Friendship Road Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[\n\n<p>What does it take for nine friends, who live in Arizona, Oregon and Nebraska, to get together? Why a 10 day vacation centered around Road to California of course!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last January, we caught up with part of the group outside the vendor mall. Their Road Trip took a whole year to plan. A couple of the ladies had never met before this trip but that didn\u2019t matter. Everyone\u2019s love for quilting was all it took to embark on this friendship gathering.<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/the-ultimate-friendship-road-trip\/attachment\/_i4c3729_copy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2118\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2118\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/i4c3729_copy.jpg\" alt=\"_i4c3729_copy\" width=\"617\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was friend Barbara \u00a0(on the far left) who brought all these women together to stay in one house and to explore Road to California and Southern California. She was the one friend who knew everyone. As she put it, \u201cI am like a rolling stone\u2026I gathered all this \u201cmoss.\u201d <span style=\"color: #800080;\">(Oh my&#8211;there&#8217;s a photo bomber?!! I guess she wanted to be a part of their group too)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally from Omaha, Nebraska, Barbara had a 1,000 square quilt studio in her home. A few of these friends met Barbara by coming to her home to quilt. When her husband retired, he and Barbara established a winter home in Goodyear, Arizona. She joined the local Pebble Creek Quilt Guild and that\u2019s how she met the other women. Because Barbara loves all her quilting friends, she wanted to find some way for all of them to meet and play. Road to California was the perfect choice. Especially since one of the friends, Chris Taylor, had <strong><em>three <\/em><\/strong>quilts entered in the show.<\/p>\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_2115\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"669\"]<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/the-ultimate-friendship-road-trip\/attachment\/my-blue-log-cabin\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2115\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2115\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/My-Blue-Log-Cabin-1024x1021.jpg\" alt=\"My Blue Loge Cabin - Honorable Mention- Traditional, Wall, Pieced\" width=\"669\" height=\"664\" \/><\/a> My Blue Loge Cabin &#8211; Honorable Mention- Traditional, Wall, Pieced[\/caption] [caption id=\"attachment_2116\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"635\"]<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/the-ultimate-friendship-road-trip\/attachment\/i-have-felt-lonely-in-a-crowded-room\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2116\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2116\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/I-have-felt-lonely-in-a-crowded-room-635x1024.jpg\" alt=\"I Have Felt Lonely In A Crowded Room - Modern Piecing\" width=\"635\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a> I Have Felt Lonely In A Crowded Room &#8211; Modern Piecing[\/caption] [caption id=\"attachment_2117\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"642\"]<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/the-ultimate-friendship-road-trip\/attachment\/whats-up-buttercup\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2117\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2117\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Whats-Up-Buttercup-1024x858.jpg\" alt=\"What's Up Buttercup?-Art, Naturescape\" width=\"642\" height=\"536\" \/><\/a> What&#8217;s Up Buttercup?-Art, Naturescape[\/caption]\n\n<p>What did they all think about their Road Trip? Cindy, a 30 year quilter from Oregon and an Arizona Snowbird, said, \u201cThere was so much to see. It was so inspiring for all of us.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy Friendship Day to these terrific quilting friends. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,22,27,32],"tags":[445,1123,1391],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behind-the-scenes","category-blog","category-road-2014","category-road-to-california","tag-friendship","tag-road-trip","tag-winning-quilts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/i4c3729_copy.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}