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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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I must apologize... I should find time to post to our trip report.

There have been good reasons... the biggie is always the time that it takes to prepare the pictures.

We came home after 7 weeks of what we planned to be a 14 week trip.

1) Janet injured her shoulder on the 3rd day out... but toughed it out. We just found out that she'd torn scar tissue around her rotator cuff... where she'd already had two surgeries.

2) She was having trouble seeing and taking pictures was very hard for her... she had cataracks get bad only 6 months after her last exam. She had surgery in her left eye two weeks ago... a multifocal lens was put in to to replace the clouded one... she won't need glasses after the right one is done in a couple of weeks. I am busy doing the household stuff and putting more drops in her eyes than you'd believe. We think that she may end up moonlighting as a sniper.

I have managed to upgrade our camper... 1081 nights in the last 11 years has worn out the dinette cuchions, the bed mattress, the trucks springs, and we still had some 1141 incandesent bulbs to up grade, etc

I've actually made an inroad on these things. More on them later..

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.

Sleepy

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some old guy is driving...

The milage on the truck odometer reads... 68157 miles

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After several projects to get thge camper ready we finally got on the road onMarch 20th.

I had a couple of leaves put in the rear springs on the truck... the right side had a slight sag after 11 years carrying the TC 24/7

And... those dam* slide out gears had to be replaced.

Here we go!!!!

Goodby stick house...

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GoinThisAway wrote:
Nice to see you two made it out on the road again. Too bad you had to head home early. Hopefully there'll be an "easy" fix for Janet's shoulder.

We have looked forward to seeing you both... we got very close as you'll see in the trip report. We'd sure hoped to stop by.

We've never been to the Tennessee State Capital either... Oh! well, another time.

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jamminalong wrote:

sleepy wrote:
We are home... it was a short trip... only 49 nights

.... making us have 1081 total nights in this camper

I just figured out today as I was driving the last 131 miles to get home.... that 1095 nights would equal 3 years...

Meaning... we need 14 more nights - You could do that in your driveway, LOL!

this also means that we have spent more than 26% of the last 11 years traveling in this truck camper.

The reason we cut yhe trip short... Janet injured her shoulder again... the third time on the same shoulder... she has an appointment with the surgeon Monday morning - Sure would be curious what's causing this pain. Hope they figure it out soon.

I promise... pictures soon... and I think some of you will enjoy the report. - Looking forward to it! You're retired Chet, don't make us wait too long!

No driveway for us after all of these nights.... It's far more fun to be traveling and exploring... we are hoping to get out in the fall... Maybe Savanah, GA after the hot season.

We cut our trip alot shorter than expected... we didn't get to NM and AZ as hoped. We had another 7 weeks planned.

This is her third problem with the same shoulder.

Janets pain has been manageable until the last 2 weeks... then we headed home... we phoned our Bone Doctor... he returns to his office Monday... he sent word for Janet to be there early... he's making room for her on his schedule.

[GoinThisAway]

Nice to see you two made it out on the road again. Too bad you had to head home early. Hopefully there'll be an "easy" fix for Janet's shoulder.

[SpknTC]

sleepy wrote:
We are home... it was a short trip... only 49 nights

.... making us have 1081 total nights in this camper

I just figured out today as I was driving the last 131 miles to get home.... that 1095 nights would equal 3 years...

Meaning... we need 14 more nights - You could do that in your driveway, LOL!

this also means that we have spent more than 26% of the last 11 years traveling in this truck camper.

The reason we cut yhe trip short... Janet injured her shoulder again... the third time on the same shoulder... she has an appointment with the surgeon Monday morning - Sure would be curious what's causing this pain. Hope they figure it out soon.

I promise... pictures soon... and I think some of you will enjoy the report. - Looking forward to it! You're retired Chet, don't make us wait too long!

[sleepy]

We are home... it was a short trip... only 49 nights

.... making us have 1081 total nights in this camper

I just figured out today as I was driving the last 131 miles to get home.... that 1095 nights would equal 3 years...

Meaning... we need 14 more nights

this also means that we have spent more than 26% of the last 11 years traveling in this truck camper.

The reason we cut yhe trip short... Janet injured her shoulder again... the third time on the same shoulder... she has an appointment with the surgeon Monday morning

I promise... pictures soon... and I think some of you will enjoy the report.

[sleepy]

Corenth, MS

Shiloh national Battlefield next and Pickwick damn

[SpknTC]

sleepy wrote:
We stayed last night just west of natchez, Miss in Lousiana

Tonight we are in Clarksdale, MS

More soon

Just finished The Quiet Game based in Natchez, MS. hope you took lots of pics!

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We entered Mexico and faced 104°F.... thats too hot for anyone.

we returned to Lake Charles... rested a day and headed North East... trying to guess the tornado patterns.

We stayed last night just west of natchez, Miss in Lousiana

Tonight we are in Clarksdale, MS

More soon

[SpknTC]

sleepy wrote:
I did get a picture to post on Facebook...

I feel like I'm letting you guys down...

Almost a 1/3 of a million views... that is unbelieveable

Thanks ... we'll give you some nice pictures and narritive in the future we hope.

chet and janet

PS... she is doing her job taking pictures even with the shoulder that recently was operated on acting up again.

Bummer to hear about Janet's shoulder. What the heck is going on?

[sleepy]

I did get a picture to post on Facebook...

I feel like I'm letting you guys down...

Almost a 1/3 of a million views... that is unbelieveable

Thanks ... we'll give you some nice pictures and narritive in the future we hope.

chet and janet

PS... she is doing her job taking pictures even with the shoulder that recently was operated on acting up again.

[sleepy]

Today is Friday the 25th of April

We returned to Brownsville from South Padre Island to wash the salt and sand off the camper and truck

While on South Padre Island we found a fantastic boondocking site... we could see a Class C that was boondocking somewhat close to us and off in the distance on the sound side we could see a 5th wheel doing the same. Neither of them seemed to have power... no lights at night

We watched TV at night... kept the lights burning to read...

It was really black outside... no moon.

[sleepy]

I wrote this a week ago... I couldn't get the forum to let me post...


We are still in Brownsville, TX area...the weather is beautiful.

We've been a little lazy.... instead of doing laundry we have just been buying what ever clothing we need...just lighter weight... summer versions.

...today it caught up with us... we did the Laundry mat for several hours then drove around half of Brownsville... along the Border fence... it's not bad looking.

Tomorrow we plan on heading to Port Isabel and Padre Island again.
Heat... and HUMIDITY will have us suffling north again before too long
I think we'll go north by a different route.