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Well we are home. We left Maine on September 25 and arrived back in Florida on November 17 as planned which in itself is truly a blessing given all the things that can go wrong like breakdowns, bad weather, illness and so on. I began planning the trip last May making reservations for places weContinue reading “Home Sweet Home”

The next day we wake to showers but breaks of sun and the promise of better weather as we headed east to Florida. I had made reservations at two beachfront places for our last two stops way back in May before the multiple Hurricanes that hit Florida this year. Pensacola didn’t have a great dealContinue reading “Pensacola and Florida….Home at last or sort of. It’s a BIG state”

Well we pulled up stakes in San Antonio and drove to friends in Houston. Steve and I were interns and residents in DC and Jo and Melinda, Steve’s wife, were nurses that won our hearts at the same hospital. The Washington Hospital Center now MedStar was and is the largest hospital in DC. And itContinue reading “An overnight at friends and Houston then on to the Big Easy but will it be?”

Next stop the Alamo. This leg of the journey was only 133 miles or two plus hours. Easy except for the roads. I-10 is under construction everywhere and the narrow rough up and down roller coaster jersey barrier roads seem to go on forever. And they are very busy with cars and lots of tractorContinue reading “Davyyyyy Davvvvy Crockett or why did we come here from all over the world????”

Today’s trip was a 415 mile trip that seemed to be the right thing to do when I planned all this in the spring. Now multiple weeks into the trip and many journeys later it seemed a long way to go. That and I was covering for our CMO so had to be available onContinue reading “Gather round for the next stop story at Gather Campground Bell County”

Today’s trip was a 371 mile long trip and with my restrictions on top speed towing it was easily a 6 hour drive. While too long for my comfort there really arent any great places to stay in parts of the country where 80 MPH speed limits and miles of nothing make settlements rare andContinue reading “Isn’t a Shamrock supposed to be lucky?”

We left the meteor crater and felt no depression over that. Dad joke had to come out I haven’t been around Jess in a while. Well this trip was a 336 mile 5 plus hour drive so another long day. But what a destination! I had decided to go a bit out of our wayContinue reading “Santa, no not that one, Santa….Fe”

After a sleepless night we headed to our next stop Meteor Crater RV Park near Flagstaff and Winslow Arizona. Todays trip was about the same number of miles 365 so a long trip but all Interstate so only 6 hours plus rest stops. More high mountain passes and wind but as we got into ArizonaContinue reading “It’s a bird, it’s a plane no it’s a meteor!”

OK so we must be quite a way int our trip as I honestly had a hard time remembering the overnight at Newberry Springs RV park and Motel. Part of that could have been it was just an overnight and part could be because neither of us got much sleep that night. I am alwaysContinue reading “New berry who? We’re we really there?”

We left the Angels and the Donner party Murphy’s and headed out the next AM. And had another short trip because as I mentioned in the last post I squeezed in Napa as an in between extra stop so hadnt planned on a stop between Green Acres and this one. Im not complaining. I amContinue reading “Yo yo yo….Semite”