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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

[sleepy]

Thanks... for the kind thoughts, PMs and emails.

It has been a hard year: (you should go camping and write about it so that we can read about it)

Janet has had 4 surgeries since July... two of them on her left shoulder... and is wearing a boot for a stress fracture on her foot... she has fineally healed enough to start PT this week.

I'm getting invasive tests that make me sick... a bummer.

We'd hoped to go to Savannah, Ga for Thanksgiving... the campers ready... we are wanting...

1081 nights and holding...

Chet

On edit... I had to correct our number... wishfully I'd added a one instead of a zero

[dakonthemountai]

Sending you and Janet good vibes and positive thoughts Chet!

I've always loved reading about your travels and projects... Hope to see many more in the future! 🙂

Dak

[rmarshall]

We are pulling for you and Janet. Both of us treasure your thread and wish for your continued enjoyment of using your TC!
Dick & Mary Jane

[bka0721]

Don't make me come there and get you Chet!

It gets lonely out on the road knowing you and Janet are not turning around some corner down the road from me, somewhere.

Stay in touch. You know where I am and how to find me.

b

[Buzzcut1]

Give em hell Chet

[jmtandem]

I hope to eventually get back to this thread...

So do we. You and your lovely wife get well sooner rather than later.

[sleepy]

I hope to eventually get back to this thread...

... we both have medical issues that have us at a stand still. I'm totally exhausted... and Janet has weeks of immobility before she can even consider physical therpy.

I have got some positive tests... and I'm told that I'm going through some more medical tests and have some very hard decissions to make.

You'll all be at this point someday... baring accidental death. Age spares no one.

I hope that yo can keep camping forever. Me too!

Thanks to all of you for following along.

Chet

[sleepy]

I have been working on my TC project list over the last couple of months... I hope this flurry of activity between eye drops, etc will last for a long time... I really need to do a Project Report.

I have had 2 leaf springs added to the truck, that job was bigger than me.

I have replaced the foam in the dinette seats, It really made a difference.

I have removed rust caused by too many nights at the ocean and painted the camper jacks and other exposed metal

I have repaired a weak joint in the slide out opening frame work...

I replaced the last of my incadesent lights with LED's

I have completely rehab'd the Fantastic 6000 exhaust fan in the camper bath room... new motors, lift mechinism, and rain sensor

and I have redesigned the equipment and function of the camper galley... it is now a lot more PVSolar friendly

I'll have to get out my honey-do list and add the things I've forgotten to this update.

Sleepy

[sleepy]

I haven't forgotten... I have been working on our camper in between the medical stuff. An hour here, a day there.

Doing... Repairs, Mods, cleaning, painting,etc.

After 10 years and nearly 3 years of travel the wear and tear, and function of our camper had slipped a little.

I'll have atleast one major mod to share... hint: Making more and better use of PVSolar.

Thanks for your patience.

There is some good stuff promised and still coming from our LA and Texas trip.

Chet and Janet

[silversand]

The Dr says she is now a sniper.

LOL :B Great to read the good news!

My dad experience the same remarkable color fidelity, sharpness of vision, depth of field after the same surgery. It is like a new lease on life.

Cheers,
S-

[SRT]

Several years ago I had the cataract surgery on both eyes 6 weeks apart. Now I only use "cheater glasses" when reading the fine print. Luckily both eyes went great.

[sleepy]

GoinThisAway wrote:
The DH had cataracts that needed surgery before he was even 50. Likes to say he had to chase himself around the house to make himself put all the drops in 'em.

You've got a couple months of hot weather before it cools down enough to make traveling fun. Hopefully everything will be healed up by then.

Janet had her right eye done a few days ago... this time without the excruciating pain. We are down to 8 drops per day in her eye now. After the first surgery she was surprised that our 51 years of marriage was still intact.

She is excited... no glasses at all... colors are brilliant, she can see a mouses toe nails at a thousand feet, and read the fine print on an asperine bottle. The Dr says she is now a sniper.

I've been working on the camper's punch list between times for the drops... and of course sort of keeping up with the house. :W

We'd like to get to Charleston and Savannah late this fall. Maybe salt the camper a bit in that area.

Stop by if you get a chance in east Tennessee.

[GoinThisAway]

The DH had cataracts that needed surgery before he was even 50. Likes to say he had to chase himself around the house to make himself put all the drops in 'em.

You've got a couple months of hot weather before it cools down enough to make traveling fun. Hopefully everything will be healed up by then.

[rmarshall]

Thanks for the update, Sleepy. We are your friends and will not abandon you. Our best to Janet and it will also be interesting to hear about what you found to be the best thing for mattress and dinette cushion upgrades, etc.

Please don't buy Janet a rifle scope!

[jmtandem]

We hope things stabilize soon... the pains would be over... and so that the trip report will be done... and we can plan on a fall trip.

Take your time. We are waiting patiently!