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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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NRALIFR wrote:

Those are the disposal centers, where human corpses are converted into Soylent Green.

I thought everybody knew that.

:):)

OMG - are you saying that Soylent Green is People!?

[NRALIFR]

sleepy wrote:
Then this...WHAT IS IT?



I was sure that someone on the forum would know what these structures are... Just seeing them hundreds of miles apart.... looking exactly the same is weird

Those are the disposal centers, where human corpses are converted into Soylent Green.

I thought everybody knew that.

:):)

[Jeepers92]

We noticed these on our trip last year. Looked like they were all located on the gas lines. I thought maybe pumping stations?

[sleepy]

I was sure that someone on the forum would know what these structures are... Just seeing them hundreds of miles apart.... looking exactly the same is weird...

NASA? NSA? Military? research?

sleepy wrote:
We saw another like it later on in New Mexico.... far away from the highway we were on at that time.

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We made a decision.... go north to San Angelo, TX and cut west.... avoiding possible bad weather

San Angelo, TX is a secret with 100,000 people.... and the Los Lonely Boys. San angelo also has a state park... a day pass will get us to the dump station... that and water are essential even for us committed boondockers... the wildest places are often in towns... not in San Angelo. Nice place.

[sleepy]

We saw another like it later on in New Mexico.... far away from the highway we were on at that time.

[sleepy]

Then this...WHAT IS IT?



I was sure that someone on the forum would know what these structures are... Just seeing them hundreds of miles apart.... looking exactly the same is weird

[sleepy]

No sign of human habitation...

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Heading west.... all of this rock cut for fill.... the east bound lanes rock removal is also fill....

... some strange winds buffeted us as we cut through them.

look at that sky...

As we get older we appreciate the simplier things in life...

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Texas Hill country is like art... you like it or you don't...

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It is actually cool out with the wind and being on top of a hill...

If it had been later in the day we'd have invited ourselved to stay right here.

[sleepy]

We are actually level...

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We left Kerrville.... west on I-10....

we spent an interesting hour there... we looked for a local resturant.... but only found fast food grease pits...

We stopped at the first rest stop and made lunch... a loafed a bit.

We have overnighted in Texas rest stops... easy in, easy out... levelspots are always available... many don't have restrooms and that cuts down on traffic.

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Janet didn't get out...

I went in the office and told them that I knew there was a rally that weekend... that we were passing by early and might decide to stay I had my fingers crossed behind my back.... that absolves little white lies... I hope.

I asked if I could drive around the camp grounds... Oops! I mean RV Park Resort.

I picked up one of their brochures... The listed themselves as The Pride of Texas Hill Country... a 5 Star Resort with 6 levels of sites from basic to "Motor Home Premium" (their description not mine) goodness knows where a truckcamper would be allowed to park.

We were very disappointed.... it was very basic... we couldn't see enough difference between any of the sites to elevate the status for 6 different levels.... park models had most of the perimeter facing the brown watered river... MH's got the area near the pool and in some areas the trailers looked perminant

We didn't stop on the way out... the "gate" didn't have time to hit us in the .....

we were actually disappointed.... after having our truck camper for slightlymore than 12 years and and staying in it for 1186 nights... we went to a resort that wasn't as nice as a... well you know where we are going...

It was in Kerrville, TX.... a nice town... a mix of old.... and very new... divided by the Guadalupe River. We paid the highest diesel price to fill up... $2.799/gal.. the tank before was $2.049/gallon. yep... $2.049.

I'm not posting pictures of the campground.... not worth the time.

Note: the missing chunk of the Airfoil.... Big Bird got it!

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Not knowing for sure what to do I drove by the office and parked... I guess that I thought security or someone on the desk would run out to register us....

Nothing!


I think that building in front of us is for meetings and hobby classes.... I never figured it out and didn't ask.