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

[1stgenfarmboy]

sleepy wrote:
We moved back to our level night camp... about half way between highway traffic along US-60 and the barge traffic.

hope you don't mind "barging" in to your report Mr. Chet, but we pulled in to St Albans on your advice and was pleasantly surprised at how nice it was, we had a nice walk down the river and a nice nights stay, thanks again and we will be there again on our next trip east.

[SpknTC]

sleepy wrote:

Crossing Texas just dosn't appeal to us at this point and east is out of the question.

Any ideas? A vacation while we are on this trip would be nice too!

Sleepy

Well either start meandering north or grab a boat! Personally, I'd head north!
You've got a lot of plantations & history down there. You'll find something to see & do.

[sleepy]

We feel like we have moved to Lake Charles... it is a very nice town of about 71,000 people. Lots of good places to make us comfortable.

We have moved around this area quite a bit... most of our nights are along Lake Charles itself.

We are looking for a directon to go when it gets too hot. By then maybe I'll have my fill of Creole and Cajun food.

Crossing Texas just dosn't appeal to us at this point and east is out of the question.

Any ideas? A vacation while we are on this trip would be nice too!

Sleepy

[SpknTC]

sleepy wrote:
Janet was trying to get the outside temperature and direction... I didn't realize that my face was that skinny... losing 52 pounds will do that I guess.

Holy smokes Chet, I had to do a double take to see who was looking back at me. You certainly can tell you lost weight. Good for you!!

[sleepy]

[sleepy]

Someday I want to spend time in Chattanooga... 2 hours from home and we still have stopped only one... in 1973.

[sleepy]

I hate Interstae highways unless I'm in a hurry... and we are.

[sleepy]

[sleepy]

[sleepy]

Janet was trying to get the outside temperature and direction... I didn't realize that my face was that skinny... losing 52 pounds will do that I guess.

[sleepy]

Janet enjoyed the trees in bloom...

[sleepy]

Our goal was to get as far as we cold... we made it to Tusccalossa, Al

Rain, remaining salt splashing up from the road... Bigger highway sins blown down from the recent bad wins storms...

I used about as much window wash as diesel... well it seems about as much

[sleepy]

This is how bleak it was at our house on the first day of spring... March 20th.

We got the house sitter situated and I walked around the yard with the guy thar does the grass. We hope that it looks better by the time we get home.

It was noon before we left but our goal was ... south and west.

[SpknTC]

Well the Arizona Wildcats are out! Bummer! Time to move on to MLB.

I took off in the TC to get out of the house and I'm down the street reading; enjoying every minute of it!! Just started book 9 (Davenport) and also sent you a link about Michael Connelly's Pilot for Bosch.

Got the front hitch on order and will be mounting the genny hopefully this weekend.

[sleepy]

Hello Brian and LaDawn...

We were under tornado watch Friday night... had a hours long thunder storm... washed the pollen off the rig.

Mud bugs are still in season... the locals are moaning about the "bad crop" this year... I think that it's just to keep the price up.

We have one more favorite resturant at Lake Charles... Steamboat Bills, at the east end of the I-10 bridge. It's Janets favorite.

We parked along the Lake last night after being gone for a few days... to dozens of brides.... Oops... it was prom night... all seniords wear white by tradition here.

After wakeing up late to make up for the heavy traffic last night we found ourswlvws in the middle of somee high level bicycle races. (Better than watching paint dry)

It is 68°F at 12:15 pm CST.. sunny and bright... strong winds... it got down to 51° over night... every day is vastly different... some days 90°... some days 55°... but the wind blows constantly.

Come on down... it still beats the snow.

Chet and Janet