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

[sleepy]

Table of Contents
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
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The 2010 trip started in June. See page 123.

Home to Silversands!

Table of Contents

Page

Table of Contents for 2010

Page

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

================================================================
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]

We hope that everyone has a great holiday

We are in Memphis.... went to Graceland yesterday. Bought the VIP tickets...did it all... whee!

The last time we did it was 30 years ago.... This might be the last.

We are parked in North Mississippi... HOT!

About 5 miles back to TN.... hope it will be cooler.... sneaking a travel day in tomorrow... hope to make it to Dickson or even Nashville

Thanks to all of you for your military service

[sleepy]

Sheriffdoug wrote:
Hi Chet,
Checked all areas, no Chet, thought I would check RV.net to see if your off on another road trip, and yes!
Been very busy, with elderly mother, second eldest daughter moved back home with grandson, I've had bladder & kidney stones Nov 2014, much better now. Youngest son a little sad. So we have full house again.
Will be in U.S. arriving 22nd June, starting Fresno, heading to NW Overland Expo, just south of Seattle, then meandering across US, via UT, CO, will be at NATCOA 10th Anniversary Rally 22nd July, till 26th July, Colorado Springs, leaving US 30th July, ending trip in Asheville, NC. Flying out from LA. This trip.

What will you be doing in Ashville? I'll try to see you there... it is about 2 .5 hours from home.

[Sheriffdoug]

Hi Chet,
Checked all areas, no Chet, thought I would check RV.net to see if your off on another road trip, and yes!
Been very busy, with elderly mother, second eldest daughter moved back home with grandson, I've had bladder & kidney stones Nov 2014, much better now. Youngest son a little sad. So we have full house again.
Will be in U.S. arriving 22nd June, starting Fresno, heading to NW Overland Expo, just south of Seattle, then meandering across US, via UT, CO, will be at NATCOA 10th Anniversary Rally 22nd July, till 26th July, Colorado Springs, leaving US 30th July, ending trip in Asheville, NC. Flying out from LA. This trip.

[sleepy]

JumboJet wrote:


There is a nice boon docking spot about 60 miles north of I-40 outside Fayetteville, AR waiting on you. Nice places to eat nearby. Come see me. 67Avion has a future reservation.

Thanks... we saw the exit.... Janetwas driving.... all forward.

We are in Little Rock... waiting out the flood warning.

We visited wirh NRAlifer and his mega garage project yesterday... Wow!

It is beautiful and very functional. The truck is like new too!

We had snow in Santa Fe on Saturday... all of the mountains were white.... by the time we hit the Texas border on sunday we were hot.

We are scooting east to avoid tornados.... Janets fear!

We hope to slow down at the Mississippi River.

Chet

This is the first time we have used I-40 for cross country.

[JumboJet]

sleepy wrote:

GoinThisAway wrote:
Our high hit 90 degrees today so enjoy those cool temps in the NM mountains!

It is very cool... and VERY WINDY

I'm not sure that we'll head further norh... and when we head home it might be I-40 corridor all the way

I dread the heat... Janets is tollerating the cold here in Santa Fe, NM.

NM is a very nice state... we have been here about 7 weeks...

Home is HOT!

There is a nice boon docking spot about 60 miles north of I-40 outside Fayetteville, AR waiting on you. Nice places to eat nearby. Come see me. 67Avion has a future reservation.

[sleepy]

GoinThisAway wrote:
Our high hit 90 degrees today so enjoy those cool temps in the NM mountains!

It is very cool... and VERY WINDY

I'm not sure that we'll head further norh... and when we head home it might be I-40 corridor all the way

I dread the heat... Janets is tollerating the cold here in Santa Fe, NM.

NM is a very nice state... we have been here about 7 weeks...

Home is HOT!

[sleepy]

Thoughts...

One of our friends from the TC forum asked about our travels... and did we buy art to hang at home.

My answer was in part:


Thinking about your question. We have been out in this camper 1238 nights. Let us assume that the cost $100 a day for us to travel and that we have over $100,000 in the camper, the truck, and the modifications.

Using these figures it would be easy to assume that we may
have a quarter of $1 million tied up in our travels over the
last 12 years. (about $10,000/year)

We could probably buy a nice painting for that; Not a great one but a very nice one

But from our point of view sharing in all of the art and other things that we have done what we have done has been priceless... And if we had a piece of art that good we would have it on permanent loan where as many others could enjoy it as we enjoy all of the things we do.

Life has really been good to us and we have been pretty good to life.

I wonder if many of you have ever looked at your investment in your trucks and campers... in the travels you share with all of us... and realize how much we appreciate it?

Chet and Janet... traveling through for more than 52 years.

BTW... as we get older we change more than we like to admit... even to our selves... just 15 years ago I was taking Whitewater raft guide training... that was my 60th year....

Traveling to museums and art galleries and Valle Caulderra at 10,000 or 11,000 feet is a big deal for us now

We hope all of you find ways to travel and share this year and always in the future..... you have a lot invested.

[GoinThisAway]

Our high hit 90 degrees today so enjoy those cool temps in the NM mountains!

[sleepy]

It is pretty obvious... we don't get on the computer often.

We have iPhones.... do messages and emails from them.... and checkin with the house sitter by phone.

New mexico has been wonderful... almost all of the last 44 nights have been here.

chet

[sleepy]

Suds,

We were there... we did the museums and art galleries

On Friday we went to Valles Caulderra on top of the mountain... then to Jemez springs... Jemez National Monument and BandilierNational Monument

We were interested in Los Alamos National Lab.... it is very similiar to where I worked for many, many years...

Try the Pizza next door to the Bradley Museum.

We are back in Santa Fee now.... trying to acclimate to all of the elevation changes we've been making.

Sleepy

[54suds]

we will be in los Alamos 5/7 /15 may be we'll catch you Sherry & Suds

[sleepy]

We are enjoying Santa fe, NM.... cool at 7000' .... cold at night. The PlatCat is keeping the camper at 70 degrees as it runs all night... sometimes the furnace kicks in about 5 or 6 am. The PVSolar panels are more than keeping up.... we never drop below 85% of capacity.

We did the NM Capital yesterday.... it is a very unusual capital building...

We hope that the rain slows.... today, another Art Gallery and Cinco de Mayo...

We hope that every single one of you are using your campers and adding to your nights used numbers... get your moneys worth.

chet and Janet

[sleepy]

Quick up date....we are in Albequarque New Mexico

.... the good so far.... the Natural History Museum... the ABQ art history museum, the resturants and the Petroglyp National Monument...

The bad... we had a front tire blow out... my first. Very loud at 80 psi The damage was caused by a pot hole.... but luckly it blew as we made a tight turn in the Natural History parking lot and the right tire climbed over a brick that had been tossed into the road. I have pictures for later.

Be careful... raise cain about the roads if you plan on every traveling again.... most every ehere they have mean surprises and no one is working on them.

[sleepy]

Thank goodness for our PlatCat Vented heater at night.... the thermostat keeps us at 68 degrees F and it is using very little propane.

We are probably close to I-40... expecting snow on the peaks.

[sleepy]

I went back to the Goddard exhibit.... ended up spending $60 on books... one by Robert Goddard himself and another by his biographer. Very interesting.

We also visited the Bitter Lake National bird park

We know all of the good restrants in Roswell... and there are plenty

We finally left Roswell yesterday...

We headed out north and west... following US 380

Lincoln State Monument..

Fort Stantan Museum

Smoky Bear Historical Park

We were disappointed that we wouldn't be able to visit Trinity Site.... 1st Atomic Bomb explosion

But.... we found a fantastic place... "Valley of the Fires State Park at Carrizozo, NM... it is in the same valley and north of White Sands Nat Park.... we are in the volcanic flow.... it is 44 miles long... 165' deep, and covers 125 sq miles.

It is very warm duing the day... cold at night.... our Platcat is buzy... and we are as warm as toast. We have been out 25 nights on this trip.... used a bottle of propane.... a lot of solar...

Did I say... New Mexico is windy.... :@