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Our 2009 travels started here on March 1, 2009
The first pictures appeared at page 15. We couldn't get our data card to work with our new computer.

New Orleans and the Bayou country can be seen here.

Lake Charles, LA, Austin,Tx, and the LBJ Texas White House can be viewed here.

We enjoyed San Angelo TX even though we were sick part of the time... visit it with us here.

Our favorite winter hide-out...Phoenix,AZ and White horse Pass. Here.

Heading north in AZ, Petrified Forest and the Painted Desert Starts here.

Canyon de Chelly has wonderful cliff dwellings and a FREE campground.

Mesa Verde and the Lodge are breath taking in every way.

Sheepcamp, rv.net member, sheep rancher, and wildfire fighter invited us to visit.

Note: If you are scrolling from start to finish you'd see our Hawaii adventure here... I couldn't wait to post. It is really near the end of the thread and near the end of this page where it should be.

We traveled through Monument Valley and on to Page, AZ. after we left Sheepcamp and Cortiz, ColoradoTravel with us here.

We visited the Glen Canyon Dam and traveled to the North Rim of then Grand Canyon

Red Canyon Is a beautiful park on the way into Bryce Canyon.

Bryce Canyon is one of the best parks on the country... unique.

Zion NP is Grand... in scale and views. to '55"

The Reagan Presidental Library. My wife proclaims it to be the best Presidental Library.

Booking our vacation to Hawaii while were in Simi Valley.

Visiting Sacramento , boondocking, the capital, and more.

Golden gate bridge and San Francisco are always special.

Revisited 2007 boondocking visit to San Quentin Prison with Reddog1 and his wife.

At this point we interupted our truck camper travel and vacationed in Hawaii and a cruise of the islands.
Please come with us.

.....Atlantis Submarine... we went down to 127ft for more than 1 hour. Wow!

.....Ship, island travel Neat stuff

.....Movie tour For memories... this is a must.

.....La'ua no trip would be complete with out one.

Back on the mainland and heading home... from San Francisco to Tennessee... through CA, NV, UT, WY, NE, IA, KS, MO, IL, and KY. We posted pictures all along the way... some favorite spots are listed below.

... Following I-80 we stopped at Donner Pass... where a party heading west resorted to canabalism... they ate human tissue to survive...

40 mile desert

Bonneyville Salt Flats

Contintal Divide boondocking and sunsets

Land between the Lakes

We returned home on July 24, 2009
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The 2010 trip started in June. See page 123.

Home to Silversands!

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123 Heading North East from TN wirh a stop at Hershey Park

124 A visit with Suds54 and Birthplace of the US Navy

125 Vermont

126 US/Canada border crossing, to visit Silversands and Dunes

130 Canada/US border crossing, southern Maine woods, Sarampus

134 Sugar Loaf Ski area

136 Baxter State Park south western area

140 my visit to the now closed Loring Air Force Base

147 Long Lake, Sinclair, Maine

149 Long Lake Lodge, site of the USAF Recreation Center 50 years ago

150 a photo tour of the inside of Long Lake Lodge and the Cabins

154 The fort at Fort Kent, Me

157 Loring Military Heritage Center (Museum)

160 US/Canada border crossing, Limestone, Me to New Brunswick

163 Grand Falls, New Brunswick

167 Saint Quentin, NB

170 Boondocking in the dense woods of northern NB

173 a visit to Campbellton, NB

177 a visit to Bathurst, NB... concert

179 Acadian Peninsula... Grande Anse Light House, Sea cliffs, historic village

187 the bridge at Miramichi, NB... we are just passing through

189 visit to home made camper

191 the bridge to Prince Edward Island

195 a visit with the Jhawk's, touring, sail boat, and Windows on the Water

205 Sally's Beach Provential Park

207 Ship Wreck Point Light House, Naufrage Harbor, Boondocking

217 Cape Egmont Light House, Harbor, boondocking

228 Bridge to New Brunswick, Nova Scotia

237 Arisaig Light House

239 Face in Rock

241 241 Cape George Point Light House

245 Cape Breto Island, canso causeway

251 Louisbourg

254 Louisbourg Light House

262 Marconi Trail

264 beach

269 Boondocking Sydney, NS

274 Broad Cove Camp Ground, Cape Breton Highlands NP

282 Bay St Lawrence

288 Skiline Trail, boondock

291 Chetticamp, NS

294 baddeck, Alexander G Bell museum

298 passing through Antigonish

302 Special boondock



We are on the road again after a year sidelined for doctors. They went to a convention or something, we escaped.

We left through Level Pebble (Flat Rock, AL) and have made it as far as the BassPro shop in Plattsburg, AL.

Hope to get to Mobile or even Biloxi, MS tomorrow. I was stationed in Biloxi at Kessler AFB 51 years ago.

We'll be heading west from there... california in a couple of months... home in August
We hope to see some of you over the next 5 months.

Don't tell anyone where we are:W

Started this thread at 707 nights... todays subject edit on July 24, 2009
adding more and more pictures finally.

To find your way in this post you might like a table of contents... me too!

After you click on a link you can scroll up and down... or go to "prev" or "next" at the top or botton of the page.

Follow our 2009 truck camper travels over a total of 141 nights ...out of the 848 nights that we have traveled in the last 6 years

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Inquirees have made me think a bit...

and to share 2012 SPRING LOOP

the general plan... miss the tornados.... be home before the first of June

We are heading south thru Jimmy Carter country to Tallassee... and he coast... getting away from the middle America E/W interstates and the tornado alleys.

We'll be heading west and then down toward Brownsville... then follow the border to NM... North as far as rocky Mtn NP and then head east thru Nashville toward the end of May... we have never been inside the State Capital.

I'll be posting some as we go...

PS... the camperport did great in the storms, no damage that I can see... best $3500 I spent last year. I highly recommend it.

Chet and Janet

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You can drive the roads that you see at the bottom of the Canyons... 4X4's recommended.

The Campground is free... water, dump, and roomy!

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Working farms, 1000's of years after the cliff dwellers

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After returning to the Mesa on the North Canyon we found ourselves with beautiful overlooks of deep canyons. (The suggested the North Rim in the morning, and the south rim in the evening... for photos.)

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Next!



An Oasis in the area along the river.



There were tour vehicles and 4x4's driving up the river bed

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We headed north again on a back road watching our for live stock.



looking at the posible routes.

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We stayed a couple of nights in Hobart, AZ... on the north side of I-40 there are a bunch of motels... with a big field between 2 of them. I pulled the truck out to the middle of the field... leveled by driving up on some wooden blocks, put the slide out and went to bed.... slept soundly. We were worn out from the Petrified Forest.

The next morning we drove around town on Rt-66. We got pictures of a WigWom motel and found the old Court House... and the museum that was in it. Very nice museum, we highly recommend it.

We'd left the camper at a small park in the middle of town and when we returned to it we "parked" for the day. After dinner we returned to motel row. We could see MH people going to the Dollar store from our free parking spot.

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Ed, Thanks for reminding me about that post.

Our experience has made the following words important to us.

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." Mark Twain


My wife and I try to be nice to everyone... we are human and we sometimes fail. We never fail because of your nationality, your religion, your color, your politics, your social status, etc... When we fail it is our fault... not yours.

We try to be generous, to share what we have... our stuff and ourselves... there is such a small difference between hope and dispair for many people... we'd like to nudge them toward hope.

A smile and a hello goes a long way.

Sleepy

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When I read your post I think about a quote you had from Mark Twain

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."


Oh how true
Be safe ,healthy and happy
Ed

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SheepCamp wrote:
Mr Einstein I presume ??

Sleepy, you two would have a lot to talk about!!

I would have been tounge-tied around Albert Einstein... last year I gave Bigfootford my favorite book about Einstein. Einstein visited many of our National Parks. He was curious about everything.

What impressed me most was his ability to visualize things and explain them so they made sense to us mortals. He came up with his concepts and did the math later.

Can you imagine... riding on a light beam....?

I'd probably been busy looking for a spot to boondock!

[Raften]

Looks more like Bonnie and Clyde without Tommy guns.

[SheepCamp]

Mr Einstein I presume ??

Sleepy, you two would have a lot to talk about!!

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sleepy wrote:
I would like to have met this guy... this picture was in the building that I mentioned above.

Bonnie & Clyde??? No???:B

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By the way... this formation is named... Tepee

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I would like to have met this guy... this picture was in the building that I mentioned above.

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I-40 bisects the Painted Desert... you can see the traffic in the back ground.



As the sun gets lower in the sky the colors fade... and fewer people care to look





I used a window in an old building for a frame..



This artifact was in the building... under the window