TC travels, 2014 TR, Pg 904, 2015 TR pg 964

[sleepy]

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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

[Budster]

Welcome home Chet & Janet! Looks like you gat a tan while over there! Where are you headed now?

[sleepy]

We'll do it again in about 3 1/2 years.... for our 50th wedding aniversary.

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While we were on vacation we flew to Honolulu and stayed for a few days and then boarded the NCL's Pride of America for a cruise around all of the Hawaiian Islands and stopping many times for excursions.

We had planned to leave the camper in the Sacremento area but we just didn't fit.

We had a backup plan all along and it worked out great. We checked into the Holiday Inn Express at Burlingame (SF airport). One night in the hotel was about $150... it included 14 nights free parking in their controlled access parking lot behind the hotel.





NOTE: we gave away or dumped everything in the refridgerator and turned it off... defrosting it for 15 days.

The batteries were at 100% when we returned... the 55 watt solar panel kept the charge up. I didn't know what to expect and didn't want to come back to a mess.

[sleepy]

We are back in San Fransisco tonight.

Like all vacations we are worn out.

[Budster]

pjay9 wrote:
What kinda RV is that? Capt PJ

it's a Recreational Vehicle that floats on water :S

wonder if they are having fun yet?

[pjay9]

What kinda RV is that? Capt PJ

[Budster]

Mr & Mrs Sleepy's new digs while on their latest adventure



Have a great time, post some pics. I know you will have to ask those dances to remove their grass skirts as your allergies will be bothering you! Hope you get leighed

[JoeChiOhki]

Hey Sleepy, how are you keeping the fridge going? I'd think the batteries would give out after a while and the fridge would shut off? Or does the park N fly have electrical hookups of somekind?

[sleepy]

sleepy wrote:

sleepy wrote:
By the way the airline is Hawaiian, The Hotel is Aston Waikiki Beach Hotel, the boat is NCL's Pride of America. The tour agent was Budster, the happy couple is Mr and Mrs Sleepy.

I'll report on our abandoned TC and sneak in some trip picks in a couple of weeks,

Aloha :B:C:B:C:B

Boondocking for months at a time pays off!

We'll need hook-up invitations as we cross the country to the east... LOL

[sleepy]

sleepy wrote:
By the way the airline is Hawaiian, The Hotel is Aston Waikiki Beach Hotel, the boat is NCL's Pride of America. The tour agent was Budster, the happy couple is Mr and Mrs Sleepy.

I'll report on our abandoned TC and sneak in some trip picks in a couple of weeks,

Aloha :B:C:B:C:B

Boondocking for months at a time pays off!

[sleepy]

By the way the airline is Hawaiian, The Hotel is Aston Waikiki Beach Hotel, the boat is NCL's Pride of America. The tour agent was Budster, the happy couple is Mr and Mrs Sleepy.

I'll report on our abandoned TC and sneak in some trip picks in a couple of weeks,

Aloha:B:C:B:C:B

[sleepy]

We are leaving the camper and truck at the hotel beside the San Fransisco Airport... the program is called "Park and Fly"... the TC is as secure as luck will have it. keep your fingers crossed for us.

[Michigan_Rod]

Have a great vacation and I'm sure you'll find much to fill up your memory sticks. You'll be seeing some beautiful sunrises and sunsets.

[sleepy]

We will leave this area tomorrow (Thursday) morning by air for N 21 deg 13 ' and W 157 deg 55'... 2399 miles from here. We will then board a boat on Saturday the 4th for a week touring the 49th state.

We'll post pictures when we get back if we find anything worth the space on the memory sticks. We should be back on line about the 15th.

Everybody have a great 4th of July... we should see some fire works too.

Sleepy and of course Mrs Sleepy
San Fransisco

[sleepy]

Thanks for responding Doug... Sarah impressed me as much as anything on our trip so far... and we have seen a lot.

[SheepCamp]

Sorry Sleepy for the delay, Took the TC up to Silverton to get ready for the 4th of July. Silverton in a high San Juan mountain valley puts on one outstanding fireworks display. Lots of big shells and a few HUGH 10 inch shells that echo like thunder in the valley. They expect 15,000 for the show in a town of 800. TC is waiting for us in a nice spot along Mineral Creek with some friends. Will run up in the jeep Fri.

As for Sarah, she is a Great Pyrenees (from Pyrenees Mts between France and Spain) and about 110 lbs (add a few inches of fir and she looks even bigger). Both her parents are working dogs. She was born in a plywood shack in a pasture full of sheep, spent 8 weeks there until she was weaned. We picked her up and put her in with 5 ewes where she had safety but could not get out. Over the winter she had all the flock added and she became the protector of the flock. She is 5 years old, and is not agressive, but posessive. She will not attack first, but will defend her "family" if pushed. She seems to sleep all day and patrol the property at night. Main threats are domestic dogs, mt lions and bears. Had a bear in the area of our house for two months two years ago that raided the apple trees around the house but left the sheep alone. Wife got to shake hands with it one morning in the dark at her car (both were scared S*&%$^less). Her flock are Navajo Churros, decendants of the early sheep the Spanish brought from Spain in the 1500's. Long stong wool that the Navajos used in their rugs in many natural colors. DW and I run a spinning and weaving supply business on the side and deal a lot on the Navajo Reservation over the last 25 years. Lots of adventures out there over the years. Questions, drop me a PM if you like.