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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

[SheepCamp]

Sorry Reddog, just not enough time. Hope they will wonder back through some time when I can get away. Nice little trail that runs up the canyon to the top of the La Plata mountains and ends at just 12511 ft. Nice afternoon run once the snow comes off in late June. Hesperus Peak is 13,200 ft with the home place at a low 7500 ft.

[Reddog1]

SheepCamp, it does not get prettier than that, great photos. What I want to know, is did you get Chet and/or Janet in one of the jeeps (offroad)?


Wayne

[SheepCamp]

Had a wonderful time visiting with Sleepy and his DW. Hope he enjoyed the farm and the view of the La Plata Mountains out the camper window.






They got a chance to meet Sarah (our sheep guardian) and her flock of Navajo Churro sheep. Lambs are a couple weeks old now and are full of life. Sarah does a pretty good job of keeping the bears and moutain lions out of the flock.




If they can make it back when I am not so busy irrigating and such, we will take some time off to run over to Moab, Ut and play a little with the jeeps.

Sleepy and Co, drive safe and we hope to make it to the east some year soon!!

Happy Trails to you!!

[sleepy]

We are parked along Hwy 163 just west of US 191. The view is good, the dinner was good, we are sleepy...who knows.

[sleepy]

We are staying at a sheep ranch in Hesperus, Colorado tonight. One of our TC Forum members "SheepCamp" invited us to visit. He and his wife are very nice... so are all of the critters.

The view is breathtaking. Maybe he'll post a picture of the snow capped mountains to the north of his house.

They each have their own rock crawling Jeep... I hope they get out East someday. there are a few rocks to climb there... and we can repay their kindness.

[sleepy]

One of the ladders is 35 feet, one ruin has 8 ladders, one has an 18" wide crawl through that is 12 feet long.

Mesa Verde is a hard place to get to if heighth bothers you.

[Michigan_Rod]

Sleepy...do they still have the 3 sets of ladders you need to climb at Mesa Verde? Have you been to Royal Gorge in CO yet?

[sleepy]

We took a holiday.... We stayed at the Far View Lodge with all of the trimmings. A mothers day treat for my wife. (at 8147 feet elevation on her side of the bed)

Today we did everything BUT the tours.... it wiped us out. I have 12,924 steps on my pedometer... and a lot of driving. The air is thin, I am older...

Mesa Verde is beautiful, educational, interesting, and exhausting.

I saw several truck campers. No one that I met had ever been on the forum... all had questions.

We've had several invitations to visit and park... saddly we have been moving in different directions.

Tomorrow we are heading west, into AZ, then Utah, and LV... Nellis AFB...
time to see our great grandchild.

[Deanmac]

Great reports, I sure enjoyed your thread.

[silversand]

Well Sleepy:

You've earned your own category in Trip Reports!

On The Road Again Series: Text only reports here-->

Cheers!
Silver-

[Americamper]

Sleepy, is it free on top of the mountain? I hope to be there in about a month.

[sleepy]

We are sleeping on top of the mountain inside Mesa Verde tonight...

[sleepy]

We recieve a lot of email and PM suggestions on places not to miss... places to eat... and even places to avoid.

Please keep the suggestions coming... others might benifit.

Thanks

7/769

[sleepy]

FREE.... NO Fee Campground...

We did the north rim of Canyon de Chelly on Tuesday... thought that we'd check the Park Service (federal) campground for a possible dump site to use before we head north to Monument Valley in a few days.

A sign at the gate said the whole campground is a "NO FEE AREA" donations accepted.

Better still... no ground fires (no smoke... for us asthmatics).

We now have 6 campground nights...

And we'll donate!

BTW... there is a limit on size which thw MH people choose to ignore... for entertainment... watch them leave after dark... with no where to go?????

[btggraphix]

sleepy wrote:

Tomorrow... Canyon de Chilly and on to Monument Valley.

I narrowly missed going to Canyon de "shay" last fall when I was travelling from Window Rock north to Moab.....I sintead to BIA highway north that would be up on the plateau above CdeC. I boondocked on Indian Lands (by the suggestion of some residents) near a nice lake and wokeup to watch various families fishing the lake across the road. A really nice spot, but possibly against the rules of the Navajos - I heard here you need permission to camp on their land anywhere. No issues though....

Have fun Sleepy. Keep up the reports.