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[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

[btggraphix]

Happy 51st Chet and Janet! And what a great place to spend it! I'll never forget being there near the end of crawfish season on a thunderstorm night enjoying our drinks after a huge meal with a bunch of friends and their families. The power went out and complete darkness ensued. I opened my flip phone for a little light and others did the same and we all just continued on as if nothing really happened. Eventually power came back on. What a great scene with a lightning show all around. We hope to be back again soon, perhaps this late fall.

We are shooting to be living in our rig full time in the not too distant future, by fall at the latest so lookout, instead of some MH you'll see Lancezilla pulling in behind you guys somewhere out there on the road or at Pat's. If so we won't have to park in their lot (or god forbid the little CG just a ways past the bridge over the outlet of Lake Henderson to go to Butte La Rose 🙂 ) but at our friends parents camp on the canal. I hope we finally catch up with you guys out there on the road sometime soon. If you are ever going to visit our house (so we can return the favor of staying at your place) you better make it this summer 🙂

Really enjoy your travelogue!

[sleepy]

jamminalong

When you read a book in a day or two.... a book started more than 3 days ago is finished... in the last week I finished Michael Connellys "Gods of Guilt", James Pattersons "Private LA" and I'm half way through Sandra Browns "Deadline"

Janet reads faster than I do... but I need far less sleep.

Today it got up to 90°F in the bayou country... down to 70°F now... 9:10 CST

We don't know for sure where we are going... the weather dictates...

... we hoped to watch the TN/Mich basketball game this evening but couldn't pick up the CBS TV station.

Tropical weather and lots of books will keep us parked along the waterways...

... and in the Cajun resturants.

[SpknTC]

sleepy wrote:

jamminalong wrote:
Happy Anniversary Chet & Janet!! Hope you two have a wonderful day! :B

Thank you... Our 51st Wedding Anniversary... Celebrated down in the Bayou at Pat's Fishermans Wharf in Henderson, LA.

Janet had a very nice Filet Mignon...

I had Crawfish Bisque and 2 pounds of boiled Mud Bugs (crawfish) with corn on the cob and a potato... all spiced up with the best cajun spice ever. It took a big glass of ice water and 2 beers to keep the heat from the spice to a tolerable level.

Then, it got cold in Lake Charles last night... 51 years and cuddling (don't tell Janet, I cut back on the PlatCat vented heater a little). We'll hang here for a couple of days... more Cajun food... it is the season, and I don't want to miss it.

We agree with our friend Silversand... we have to stay below I-10 for a while to stay out of the cold... the weather looks cool and wet all the way to Brownsville.

Thanks to all for the nice comments... and I'm glad that some of you had your memories tweeked... like those caused by Janets picture of the CCC program.

Sleepy

Janet's my kind of girl!! Now add a baked potato just butter, side of veggies and big strawberry daiquiri tops the meal.

Wow! We're 120 miles from the Canadian border and have beautiful 50º weather. Of course we have scattered rain showers every other day this week. Seriously though look up what showers mean...not what you would expect.

Did you just finish the same author you mentioned to me the other day?
Waiting for pics...

[silversand]

....wow. Happy 51st guys! This one snuck by me 🙂

S & D

[sleepy]

Have you ever noticed...

When you find a spot to park overnight in a 2 mile section of possibilities that someone will decide to snuggle their Class C up againest your camper.

Now we look like a gypsy camp instead of a lone camper just parked.

I suppose that they think there is safety in numbers...

I don't think so... I don't know them... I'm never going to put us in harms way to protect someone I don't know... they could be the meth lab or truckers delight that we need protected from.

[sleepy]

We are still in Lake Charkes, LA. We got a mile and a half walk in yesterday evening... finished a good book and started another.

It was 47°F overnight.... with hard winds... today it's up to 67°F at 10:45 AM... why do I mention this... It is snowing at home and a weather bomb is forcast for the east coast of Floriday, Ga. SC, etc... with snow... and the northeast is expecting Hurricane force winds along withtheir winter weather.

All in all... makes this area tropical.

We have seen very few RV's... most with Quebec plates. We did see truck campers heading north on two ocassions... one of them flashed his lights in return for our greetings.

I hope that all of you are planning to get out soon.

There will be a few pictures later...

Sleepy and Janet

[sleepy]

jamminalong wrote:
Happy Anniversary Chet & Janet!! Hope you two have a wonderful day! :B

Thank you... Our 51st Wedding Anniversary... Celebrated down in the Bayou at Pat's Fishermans Wharf in Henderson, LA.

Janet had a very nice Filet Mignon...

I had Crawfish Bisque and 2 pounds of boiled Mud Bugs (crawfish) with corn on the cob and a potato... all spiced up with the best cajun spice ever. It took a big glass of ice water and 2 beers to keep the heat from the spice to a tolerable level.

Then, it got cold in Lake Charles last night... 51 years and cuddling (don't tell Janet, I cut back on the PlatCat vented heater a little). We'll hang here for a couple of days... more Cajun food... it is the season, and I don't want to miss it.

We agree with our friend Silversand... we have to stay below I-10 for a while to stay out of the cold... the weather looks cool and wet all the way to Brownsville.

Thanks to all for the nice comments... and I'm glad that some of you had your memories tweeked... like those caused by Janets picture of the CCC program.

Sleepy

[SpknTC]

Happy Anniversary Chet & Janet!! Hope you two have a wonderful day! :B

[JumboJet]

jmckelvy wrote:
Seeing the photo of the CCC sign reminded me that my father served in the CCC for several years. I always like the stuff they built.... very rustic and substantial. Those guys either built or laid the groundwork for many of the places we all like to visit.

Not to hijack this wonderful thread, but many of the young men in the '30s were employed by the CCC. I wonder what the participation rate would be if programs like the CCC and WPA were offered today?

Here is a certificate my dad received for "Dry Rock Construction" in Cody, Wyoming.

[rmarshall]

Sleepy and Janet - beautiful report. I felt like I was riding along with you.

I need to become bolder about being independent of campgrounds. I would like to do as you two do, but have been too timid or unimaginative. Thanks for your example.

[jmckelvy]

Seeing the photo of the CCC sign reminded me that my father served in the CCC for several years. I always like the stuff they built.... very rustic and substantial. Those guys either built or laid the groundwork for many of the places we all like to visit.

[Sheriffdoug]

We all look, Sleepy & Janet. 300,000 hits?

[sleepy]

I hope that you enjoyed something of our month chasing memories. We had a good time, read a lot... but most important... we avoided medical facilities for more than 30 days.

It is your turn...

Sleepy

[sleepy]

IWe didn't finda dump station... so I asked one of the workers... I think that I must have been the first to ask....

I've hiked all of the mountains around the park... been there many times... just never thought about dumping there.

Oh! Well... I can use the maserating pump at home....

[sleepy]