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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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Kentucky Vistor center... this area has kind of a deep south feel.

Note: TN is like 3 states... East TN is Mountains, then there is middle TN and the rolling land of Nashville, and then the western part is deep south which is just south of where we are in these pictures.

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Going through Mayfield, KY and the Land between the Lakes as we head east.

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Done the Walmart oil...good folks and yes it is easy...also Jiffy lube can get you in. On the last trip I did an oil plus at a T and A..they do lots even change out the windshield wipers along with air and oil filters and fuel filter, it cost about $110 and it was all needed when I did it...it is a good value at T and A. If you are planning on using them call ahead and make sure thay have the filters for your rig and make an appointment. They got a kick out of doing my rig...it is a drive over pit and I was so small in between the two big rigs with their trailers...the drivers were asking me questions and it was all together a good experience...don't discount the big rig places when you need service or help! I use Wingfoot for tires and brakes that is the GY folks. Capt PJ

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Capt PJ

The Norwegion Cruise Lines. Pride of America doesn't have assigned seating in the resturants. It's called Free style.

There are 14 places to eat... two of the resturants require a collar on your shirt and no shorts.. but will accept dress jeans.
Reservations are recommended for these two but we ate in one as a walk in because we eat early.

The rest had pleanty of room, fantastic food and were open almost all the time.

DW gained 4 pounds and me 7 pounds... not LOL :E

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Oil changes are easy at WalMarts that have a high door on one of their bays... and a pit in the floor... about $45 for filter, oil, lube, fluids, air... for our duramax diesel engine... good work... you can stand at the door and watch.

And they have airfilters, etc too!

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The fact that Sleepy posted the HI trip pics and comments...pushed me to making reservations for next APR. The DW has cruised many times before and this will be my first. We are alos spending another 6 days ashore plus getting there 4 days before departure...so we are making a BIG DEAL out of it! IT is our 25th. The prices are very good yet not cheap as other cruises go as they are the only one doing HI...no compition no need to lower prices and another fact is the crew is ALL American, due to the requirements of the Jones Act.

Other cruises around the world and to AK which I am familiar with out of SEA are doing some really good deals, plus there is much compition and the crew doesn't need to be ALL American.

The DW is so good at this cruise stuff she has got it all figured out about getting seating in the restuarants, by going directly to make seating reservations as soon as we board as it fills up. Another thing about cruising, an understatement for this group I am sure...but so many folks don't...TREAT the crew as if they were long lost pals, so to speak...as that will make your trip so much nicer and you'll be surprised what can come of it...be open and respectful!

I know from being an Officer on small cruise ships in Ak the last two summers...the crews talk and the ****'s in cabin 238 are A**HOLES. They were the last to get the cabin serviced each day and nothing special was done and it always took a while to get a request/demand filled...so use the Golden Rule!

It even got to the Captain and officers that these folks were a total Pain!

I am looking forward to being on the other side of the service experience.

Nine days until departure for our TC trip back east and along the south coming back. Just got the truck serviced yesterday, tranny filter and fluid, radiator flushed and new hoses, valves adjusted as required at 100K, did it at 108, and fuel filter changed...the oil and air filter will come due while traveling that is easy to do on the road and doesn't consume alot of time. Yesterday took 6 hours to get it all done. Yep tires are checked brakes are new last month, all lights are working and stuff in the truck haven't used for a year has been removed....looking in all the compartments of the TC and taking stuff out that I have not used either in the last year...lighten the load. Even got rid of the extra propane tank (2 gall) for the BBQ as I cannot take it thru the tunnel in VA across the Chesapeak. As I leaned many years ago in BSA, "every ounce counts"!

I sure am looking forward to this trip and then the HI cruise next year...WOW! Then in OCT a year away the Gkids will be tall enuf to go to Dland, the calendar is filling up! I sure do enjoy this place! Good camping to everyone. Capt PJ

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Camper_Jeff_+_Kelli wrote:

sleepy wrote:
Hawaii makes a lot of this other stuff seem like much less... time will make these other things more exciting in the future.

Was that your first trip to Hawaii?
We really enjoyed our ten days there and hope to return for more.
Tough to get the TC there.

A couple months of home and you'll feel the need to fly the coup again.

It's been a pleasure to follow you on this outing.
Thank you for being so generous with sharing the details.

Jeff

Thank you for your kind words.

We had never been to hawaii or on a cruise. My wife has always said that we'd never (be able) do Hawaii... which of course made me want to do it for her.

The whole Hawaiian adventure was so intense that it was a continious Wow! I'm surprised that only one person asked about how much it cost... and it wasn't on the forum. They'd just bought a $279,000 winibago... but told us that we could have gone to hawaii cheaper. Go figure.

As I'm sure that anyone that knows us in person or on the TC forum knows we would divulge every detail on costs... we'd like to see all of you go some day. I'm sure that you feel the same way.

Traveling has been so economical over the last 5 or 6 years that we'd actually accumulated enough to pay all of the costs in total when we got back to San Fransisco... Janet mailed the total to the credit card company.

Our flights were about $800 round trip for the both of us from San Fransisco on Hawaiian airlines... and they served HOT meals both ways... breakfast and dinner complimentary!

As far as the camper... no island is big enough for us to get much use out of the truck camper... the ship is a neat recreational vehicle... the state room has the same coziness. Get the BALCONY... a few dollars a day... priceless addition.

It's funny... I think we get a sense of who will "make it" as extended (TC) travelers... you'll be one of them.

Sleepy

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sleepy wrote:
Hawaii makes a lot of this other stuff seem like much less... time will make these other things more exciting in the future.

Was that your first trip to Hawaii?
We really enjoyed our ten days there and hope to return for more.
Tough to get the TC there.

A couple months of home and you'll feel the need to fly the coup again.

It's been a pleasure to follow you on this outing.
Thank you for being so generous with sharing the details.

Jeff

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The Ohio River... there is another bridge just on the horizon in the picture...

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The Ohio River... and Kentucky

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