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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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Sarah reminds me of some of the women I've met online in her size, aroma and voraciousness.
Thanks for the great pictures Sleepy...

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Two more things about Sarah... she is huge!

And... if a dog comes on the property that she doesn't know she will eat it. She will protect her sheep at all costs.

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I was hoping that sheepcamp would comment on Sarah:

When she was 6 weeks old his dog Sarah was put with 5 of the older, gentler momma sheep. Sarah then had no contact with anyone else for a long time... she came to think of herself as a sheep. When Doug feeds the sheep... Sarah eats some of their food. (He also feeds her dog food which she eats laying down)

While we were there she went to several places around the ranch and made a single wouff sound... then went on patrol all night. A goat was carried off by a Cougar that night a few miles away... Doug told us that Sarah has never lost one of her sheep to an animal. (There are more than 50 cougars known to be in the area.)

Sarah has been inside a building 2 times in her long life... both were trips to the vet when she was hit by a car. Doug said the vets staff had to open the doors and windows... Sarah was pretty strong smelling after all those years sleeping on the manure pile.

I wish that I could tell you her breed but I'd screw it up... french sounding name.

I like a gal that contributes to her keep... and isn't she beautiful.

[sleepy]

I've been trying to post as many of the trip pictures as I can before we go on VACATION. We are about half way through with posting the pictures... still have Bryce, Zion, Las Vegas, The Reagan Presidential Libruary, The coast highways to San Franscico, Sacramento, Napa, and Sonoma... then back to SF.

We will be on Vacation for the next 15 days or so... our cell phones will accept voice mail and we'll have some computer access.

[Dome]

I'm going to be in Ouray for a Jeep Jamboree in September. Then head down to the Cortez area for a few days. I plan on staying in Mesa Verda NP for a few days and check out the area. Thanks for the pictures. What a great trip you guys are having. Be careful and Happy Trails.
Steve

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Going west through Utah we got to miss some sheep

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In the same area is an Elk farm... we stopped for some meat

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After Mesa Verde we went back to Cortez... to restock food , fuel, and dump. We got a pm from Sheepcamp inviting us to visit... too good to pass up... maybe!

Just getting there was special.




Sarah is special



The special breed of sheep are raised for their wool... the Navaho weave their rugsfrom it.


Do you notice the weard 3 horn rams... they are indicitive of the breed




Sarah sleeps on the manure pile for warmth... she thinks she is a sheep... but in reality is the protector for all of them.

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too much good food on this trip... been in the mountains awhile.... need haircuts

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inside the sun

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I hate to call the cliff dwellings ruins... they seem pretty advanced to me.. The sun warms the area in the winter, the overhang shades them in the summer.

The people are protected from their enemies and wild animals. They had water, farms, good pots and baskets, storage graineries and trade.

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Structure (worship maybe) above the cliffs

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Now to more of the good stuff...

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We'd recommend the Lodge up there.

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We don't fold our towels like this in the camper... Lodge living pampered us