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Its Christmas Eve and we are enjoying desert views and much appreciated sunshine. While we miss being with family, we are able to enjoy the holidays, especially being able to spend it in such a beautiful place. Today I felt privileged to be able to attend morning Mass in one of the most beautiful missions I have seen.
Read MoreWhen I was planning our trip, I ended up with a month to book between our stay in Alamogordo, NM and our planned 3 month stay in Tucson, AZ for the winter. We had a choice of traveling around Arizona a little bit before settling in Tucson or staying a little longer in New Mexico. I went to work researching our options and checked our various memberships for discounts.
Read MoreSince we were touring New Mexico, I had to book where we could visit White Sands National Park. I remember the very first time I came west many years ago, I expected to see a sandy desert. I was very surprised to see how much vegetation there is and never saw the big sand dunes that I expected. Needless to say White Sands was a bucket list spot to see a true sand desert.
Read MoreAfter leaving Santa Fe, we headed south on I25 towards Elephant Butte. It was a spectacular drive, especially leaving the Santa Fe area and descending over the buttes; at least that is what I think these rocky ridges are called. It seemed at one point like the earth was opening up to my right with these rocky drop offs to the valley below and mountains in the distance. I couldn’t get any pictures because I was driving the RV but I can still visualize it.
Read MoreWhen we first arrived in Santa Fe, we noticed a sign for Madrid as we took our exit for the RV Park. I remembered that town from “Wild Hogs”, a movie that we always enjoy and wondered if it was the same place the movie was filmed. Another sign indicated that the route towards Madrid was the Turquoise Trail National Scenic Byway. Of course, both of those sounded good to me.
Read MoreWe have now been in New Mexico for about a month and we can officially say that we arrived in the Desert Southwest. So I decided to start a new series of blog posts instead of continuing the westward journey series. After Tucumcari, we headed a little further west and north to Santa Fe. I have to say that this town has been on my bucket list for quite awhile and it certainly met my expectations.
Read MoreOur westward journey has taken us near Rt 66 for a good bit of our travels from Missouri, through Oklahoma, Texas and into New Mexico. For the most part, we stayed on the interstate driving the motorhome and ventured along Rt. 66 when we stopped for the night. Much of the old stops along Rt. 66 seem to be gone or if they are there, they are pretty run down. It is a shame to see this historic travel route disappearing.
Read MoreAfter 5 days of traveling, we stopped in Oklahoma City for 3 nights. I am really glad that we stopped here for a few days. Not only did we need a break from driving, we also needed time to relax and enjoy our surroundings. We discovered that there is quite a bit to do in Oklahoma City so we explored different sections of the city each day.
Read MoreOver the past 1.5 weeks, we traveled from Batesville, IN to Tucumcari, NM. That is pretty fast traveling for us. We normally stay in each stop for a few days to a week with sometimes a one night stop in between our longer stops. Since we got a later start that we originally planned, we decided to move quickly through a few states so we could spend the time we had planned for New Mexico. We ended up with 5 days in a row of travel, with 4 one night stops before we had a 3 night stop.
Read MoreWhile staying in Batesville, IN, I felt like we got to experience all types of American life: small towns, rural areas and city life. Batesville is a small city centrally located between Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Louisville. We like to stay there at a Thousand Trails campground to visit our daughter Kim and son in law Greg who live in Cincinnati. It is a nice area and we always find plenty to do while Kim and Greg are busy working.
Read MoreI can’t believe that I haven’t written a blog post in months and I am sorry for not keeping everyone updated. Life got in the way this past summer with medical issues and work camping taking up all of my time. Thankfully, my arm is finally on the mend although it is going much more slowly than I would like.
Read MoreWe settled in at Wright’s Orchard Station Campground near Altoona, PA for the summer and are really enjoying the campground and the area. This is a small, quiet campground with friendly people. Since we wanted a site without too many trees overhead, we are in a long, somewhat narrow pie shaped site which works well for us. There is room for the truck in front of the rig and I am able to park my car in front of the office. We have enough space for our chairs, table, and the dog cot in the patio area, with a little grassy area behind us.
Read MoreSince the last blog post was a bit depressing with all of our medical issues, I thought I needed to write one about having fun. Following Tim’s surgery, we headed back to the RV in Gettysburg. We had lost the couple of weeks that we wanted to spend touring the area so we were left with one full day before we had to leave. In the morning, we headed off to check out the battlefield with the national park visitor’s center as our first stop. There was so much to see and do in the visitor’s center that we could have spent the entire day there.
Read MoreI am sorry for the long time between posts. Family and medical issues have consumed our time recently and blog posts were pushed to the back burner. I probably should have named this post medical problems, medical problems and more medical problems. I think things are finally settling down so I thought I would catch you up on our lives.
Read MoreI can’t believe it has been over a month since I wrote a blog post. It feels like time just flew by since I wrote our annual Christmas letter post. We really haven’t been doing much but at the same time, we have been really busy. I guess we were busy not doing much of anything. Do you ever feel that way?
Read MoreMy parents were my inspiration for many decisions that I made in my life and the main inspiration to live the RV lifestyle. Even though they didn’t have much money, my parents always made sure that we had family vacations, often staying in cabins or my Dad’s hunting camp, usually somewhere to enjoy being out in nature.
Read MoreAfter 3 weeks of travel, we arrived in Florida for the winter. Yes, that is correct, we took 3 weeks to drive from Pennsylvania to Florida. We like to take our time and stay for awhile at most of our stops. No need to rush; we stop and smell the roses along the way. I don’t know about roses, but we did enjoy the fall scenery during our travels.
Read MoreIn the last blog, I had mentioned that Tim and I were tired and wanted to stay in Pennsylvania a bit longer before starting our trek south for the winter. We were fortunate to be able to extend our stay at Thousand Trails Hershey to almost 3 weeks. This campground is very popular in the fall and is fully booked, especially on the weekends. Lucky for us, there were some cancelations so we were initially able to extend our stay to 18 days.
Read MoreWow, I can’t believe our month in Pittsburgh has come to an end. We were so busy that the time just flew by and we didn’t get to see everyone that we wanted too. It felt like we spent most of our time running to appointments: various doctors, tests, dentists, vehicle appointments, insurance broker appointments, and more. Fitting all of it into a month was very stressful. We have learned our lesson that a month just isn’t long enough time.. Next year, we plan to spend 4 months here.
Read MoreWe finished our New England trip with a visit to Vermont and the Green Mountains. We stayed in the southeast corner of the state near Brattleboro, VT which sits on a river just across from New Hampshire. Our drive there from Maine was very scenic as we crossed through New Hampshire. Even though we were on a state road, it was a fairly easy drive with the RV. I am always a little nervous when we aren’t on an interstate or US highway with this fifth wheel. It is fairly high at 13 ft 5 in so we worry about overhead clearances. Both the RV GPS and the RV Trip Wizard app mapped us that way so we thought it should be fine and it was.
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