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

[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

[Less_Stuff]

Thought you might like to see H. C. Andersen's home in Odense, Denmark. Which is not far from the small Danish town of Middelfart.

With tourists doing tourist things. The streets are a little different than Solvangs. Denmark has regular paved streets as well.



The Danes think a lot of H. C. Andersen as you might imagine.
Sleepy, you may know of the Danish physicist Niels Bohr since your from Oak Ridge.
Of course we all know the Great Dane Victor Borge.
Danes have been very influential in the world considering there’s only about 5.5 million of them in Denmark these days.

Lucky me, I married the greatest one.

[sleepy]

As we were leaving Solvang we spotted an old mission... about the only building in town that isn't Danish.

(Trick photo... we were already picking up speed...)

[sleepy]

In a small park

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[sleepy]

Not many cars on the streets.... few people too...

[sleepy]

At 6 pm we found very few tourists and even fewer businesses open... no place to eat. we ended up eating at the camper later in the evening.

It would definately be a good place for tourists to visit... at least we observed no crowds in early June.

It was a very nice place if you like to shop. There were a couple of bars open at night.

[Mooney]

Solvang considers itself the Danish Capital of America. The stores generally close at dark and always have. The bad economic times have not really impacted Solvang as many tourists come from LA and SF to visit and shop instead of more expensive vacations to far away places.

The picture of the Danish Inn gated is because the windmill is not earthquake compliant. They were required to fence off the area during the retrofit.

[INSAYN]

Kinda looks alot like Leavenworth Washington, a Bavarian village style layout.

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sleepy wrote:
Solvang is like being in Europe... the wwhole town is in the same theme.

Having been in Solvang and Denmark(Europe?) Solvang is sorta like Denmark.

Trust me a trip to the real thing is worth it.

In Denmark If you say "I'm sorry I don't speak Danish" generally they will start speaking English to you. This is true in many small European countries and especially with young people.

After Hawaii I think you would enjoy a European trip.

[sleepy]

Like a lot of tourist area this year... a lot of business' are closed... or their hours have been drastically cut.

It's actually a good time to travel... bargins abound.

[sleepy]

Solvang is like being in Europe... the wwhole town is in the same theme.

We bought several older "Stuart Woods" books that we'd been having problems finding in two different used book stores.

[sleepy]

Michigan Rod wrote:
Are you getting any ideas about painting your Lance? You could put ads on it to help pay for diesel.

Thank goodness we'll never need to. We have prepared all of our lives to do anything and be able to afford what we want.

We have never complained about the price of diesel... nor have we stayed home when it's priced high. It's just not something that we can do anything about... so we don't worry about it.

One thing for sure... a TC billboard would cost the Sleepys a ton of money... it would put a stop to "stealth" boondocking. Boondocking is the reason we've been able to stay out 847 nights and still pay cash for the 15 day Hawaiian Vacation.

Some might paint wrenches on their TC's... and park overnight at auto service centers all over the country.

[sleepy]

Solvang, CA

[Michigan_Rod]

Are you getting any ideas about painting your Lance? You could put ads on it to help pay for diesel.

[sleepy]

One of Mooneys news crews had been using it to cover the fires that had been burning the zillion dollar houses... it was smoky and ... well, dirty. It was also strange to drive a bill board.

thanks Shawn

We took it to Solvang and just cruisin' the area... We never forgot where we parked it!