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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

[GoinThisAway]

I can see there's gonna be some good pictures to enjoy when you get home and take the time to post them. No hurry though. Keep on traveling!

[sleepy]

Bottomless Lake State Park, Artist Colony, WW II Iron Cross, and more great resturants...

Nice weather in the days and evenings... very cold in the early mornings

Snow not far north of us in the mountains where we want to go.

Camping in the style of Tioga George.... there are day camps and there is night camps.

Sleepy

[bka0721]

sleepy wrote:
Bryan A arranged the visit... Bryan did,t want us to spend our 3 year in the EC anniversery without a party,

Bryan says that everyone has a party when they pass the 1096 nights boondocking in their truck camper.

Thanks Bryan... Wish you could have been here!


Chet and Janet

BTW... we will probably be celebreting again tonight.

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[sleepy]

Bryan A arranged the visit... Bryan did,t want us to spend our 3 year in the EC anniversery without a party,

Bryan says that everyone has a party when they pass the 1096 nights boondocking in their truck camper.

Thanks Bryan... Wish you could have been here!


Chet and Janet

BTW... we will probably be celebreting again tonight.

[sleepy]

We seldom know where we're going to be

Last night a Roswell police car came to where we were parked... Called me by name

Officer Hart had a message from a friend who is also on the road very far from here in his super stealth TC

It turns out that they are friends.

He visited with us in the camper for quire a while... He and his wife are going to dinner with us the next night at Tia Juana's... then again last night at Peppers....

The food here is great, the people are friendly and the museums and galleries are wonderful.

[JumboJet]

sleepy wrote:

JumboJet wrote:
Thanks for the post on diesel fuel prices in Kerrville. I filled up for $2.43 before I arrived and see $2.69 & $2.75 in Kerrville. I saved $5. That's more than 2 gallons at home.

We have bought diesel at $2.039 in Texas on this trip andf paid $2.85/gal in Hobbs... hope that you had a good time.

Had a great time. Went to the WWII National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg. Went to Bandera for lunch with an old friend and returned to K'ville via SR16.

Had good food and fellowship with friends made at other TC rallies.

Even won a T-shirt for having owned the most number of Lance campers.

[sleepy]

We have done 2 Art museums and the UFO center.... since we have been here.... and very good resturants... Tiiana's is to die for!

We are parked under a huge tree on the north side of the Goddard planetairium as I write this... love the rare shade.

[sleepy]

jmckelvy wrote:
If you are still in the Roswell area check out the museum in the Visitor Center. It's free and quite interesting. It has lots of information and exhibits from Robert Goddard's rocket work including his complete workshop and some early rocket engines.

We did the Roswell Museum that you mentioned yesterday... We spent a lot of time in the Goddard section.

Janet and I really enjoyed the entrance to the Goddard section. We know exactly where were were with our kids at 12:33am on December 7th, 1972 We were sitting on the Indian River on the western edge of the Space Center watching the Apollo XVII blast off to the moon.... it was the final mission. It was about 3 1/2 hours late firing.

We were in our 2 year old truck camper... I built a deck on top just for this moon shot. ABC News mounted a camera up their with us.

The kids were 9, 6, and 3....they'll never forget.

I took pictures of everything in the exhibit... some day they'll be in the trip report.

[sleepy]

JumboJet wrote:
Thanks for the post on diesel fuel prices in Kerrville. I filled up for $2.43 before I arrived and see $2.69 & $2.75 in Kerrville. I saved $5. That's more than 2 gallons at home.

We have bought diesel at $2.039 in Texas on this trip andf paid $2.85/gal in Hobbs... hope that you had a good time.

[jmckelvy]

If you are still in the Roswell area check out the museum in the Visitor Center. It's free and quite interesting. It has lots of information and exhibits from Robert Goddard's rocket work including his complete workshop and some early rocket engines.

[JumboJet]

Thanks for the post on diesel fuel prices in Kerrville. I filled up for $2.43 before I arrived and see $2.69 & $2.75 in Kerrville. I saved $5. That's more than 2 gallons at home.

[sleepy]

bka0721 wrote:
If you need anything in that part of the country, let me know. I know some of the police there in Roswell, and elsewhere. Where to next?

b

Following a line of moderate temperatures

Slowly in a Northern direction

Thanks

[bka0721]

If you need anything in that part of the country, let me know. I know some of the police there in Roswell, and elsewhere. Where to next?

b

[sleepy]

Thanks for the encouragement...


We are in Roswell, NM....Artesia was very nice.... Roswell is very big... hot in the day, cold at night... and predicted 50 mph winds....

having fun.

Chet

[skipbee]

Dear Janet & Chet,
We're happy to hear that your still awanderin,
One to remember-
Happiness is Good Health and a Bad Memory.

We're tuning up for our first foray, this has been our first year since acquiring our TC that we parked the rig all winter, lots of family stuff required our attention. I'm in my 79th year and, with the luck of the Irish on full, still aiming to keep on chuggling.

We are the lucky guys whose life partners jab us with pointed sticks and wish to roll on to new adventures. A rare condition in this day and age.

You two have generated a great deal of admiration as a result of the many of your adaptations and innovations as you've traveled far and near. While many of your contemporaries have vegetated on the sofa. Hip, Hip, Hooray!
Love to all,
Linda & Skip