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On the Road Again

May 10th, 2012

Well winter nesting in Yuma is over and we are on the road again headed across the country to New Hampshire to spend time with relatives,grand kids and friends in the New England area.

Our time in Yuma was filled with a multitude of projects that we wanted to complete before heading east in the spring. The shed at our RV lot in Yuma was one of our major projects. The outside needed a complete repaint and Cyndy decided that the inside needed to be completely gutted and redone with new walls, paint, light fixtures and an air conditioner. Also we decided that the booth dinette in our 5^th wheel trailer needed to be changed out for a more practical dinning table and 4 chairs and our king size bed needed to be replaced with a queen size bed to reduce weight and allow more room to get around in the bedroom.

To be honest I was very skeptical about completing all these projects in the amount of time available,

but we are now on our way east with all of these tasks accomplished, Wow I’m amazed!!

We headed north and east to Las Vegas the last week of April spent a few days with friends and took care of a few of Cyndy’s doctor appointments and now we are officially on our way traveling to New Hampshire. We left Vegas about 11am and have made it as far as Beaver, Utah. We are staying at a Passport America RV Park called the Beaver Canyon Campground that has a great little Mexican restaurant called Maria’s Cocina. The food is outstanding.

Tomorrow we are going to try and get an earlier start and possibly make it as far as Wyoming that’s the plan right now will see how it goes.

I know I have been bad about posting regularly on the blog but I promise I will keep all interested parties up to date on our daily travels along with a few snap shots for all to enjoy. Well that’s about it for today… to be continued tomorrow!

On the Road Again

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Tagged: 5th wheel · campground · family · food · friends · rv · rv park · travel · traveling · yuma

Our Winter Nesting Places

Nov 29th, 2011

by Howard.

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Now that Cyndy and I have completed our Summer travels we are settling into what has become our Winter nesting area. It consists of Yuma, Az., where we have our RV lot, Las Vegas, Nv., where we have friends and where Cyndy’s Doctors are and San Diego where Cyndy’s sister Shirley lives and where my Doctors are located.

The majority of our time will be spent in Yuma on the R.V. lot that we purchased, with occasional trips to San Diego and Vegas for doctor appointments and to visit friends and family.

Right now we are in San diego at Shirley’s home for the Thanksgiving holidays and will be returning back to Yuma around the end of the month.

We have much to do at our lot in Yuma, cleaning up, re-organizing our shed and preparing to do some remodeling to our 5th wheel trailer.

We have decided that the king size bed that is in the trailer now is too big, it fills up the whole room and makes it difficult to strip and make the bed. So we have decided to down size to a queen size bed. This is will be a major under taking and will require some extensive remodeling in our bedroom, but should give us the room we need to maneuver around the bed.

We also have decided that a dining room table with chairs instead of the booth- dinette we have now would give us more room in the living area. Again more remodeling will be needed in order for everything to look good and fit properly. I will take before and after pictures to share with everyone as these projects progress to completion.

As Time permits we will travel to Vegas and San Diego and points in between such as Quartzite and the Laughlin, Bull Head City area to boondock and visit with friends and relatives.

It’s a great area to Travel in. Vegas, San Diego and Yuma are all within 1/2 to 3/4 of a days drive from one another and for the most part the winter weather is sunny and mild with temperatures in the 70′s and 80′s during the day and never gets much below 30 or 50 degrees at night. It does get windy and rainy at times but it’s fairly rare.

For Cyndy and myself it works out nicely and gives us a chance to do a little traveling but mostly relax, work on projects and prepare for our next big Summer adventure living the “Outdoorific” lifestyle.

YUMA SAN DIEGO VEGAS

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Tagged: 5th wheel · arizona · family · friends · rvers · san diego · travel · traveling · trip · winter · yuma

Weddings and Funerals

Oct 17th, 2011

by Howard.

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Cyndy and I have been together now for a little under ten years. We have both been in 2 previous marriages, and quite frankly were in no rush to enter into a third as we entered the autumn of our lives.

However in the last few years we have become very close not only as a couple, but as a result of our full time RV life style we have been able to visit and become close with many of our family members on both Cyndy’s side and my side.

This past July Cyndy’s Mom (Bergie) passed away in San Diego at the ripe old age of 99 1/2 years of age. Cyndy and her older sister Shirley ( who also lives in San Diego) started making plans to have a family gathering for a memorial service on October 15, 2011 at the Pine Grove cemetery in Lynn, Mass. where Bergie’s son Ernest is buried.

Since all of Cyndy’s family would be gathered there for the memorial service and my daughter and her family live close by in Connecticut, Cyndy and I decided to take this opportunity to proclaim before God and our two families our love and devotion to each other in the bonds of Holy Matrimony at the First Parish Congregational Church, United Church of Christ in Derry New Hampshire on Friday October 14, 2011 at 5pm the day before the memorial service.

Ever since the beginning of August plans were being made, flights scheduled, relatives, friends, Churches, contacted all necessary arrangements being made for both ceremonies. At times it seemed a little overwhelming, but all the family members helped with accommodations. One family in particular, Beth and Bert (Cyndy’s niece and nephew) who live in Derry, New Hampshire set up sleeping accommodations for three families and agreed to let us use there home for the reception and party after the wedding. They are great people and their home is always open to family.

It was an amazing family gathering were everyone took part in one way or another. Scott another Nephew of Cyndy’s helped with sleeping accommodations for 4 more family members, he and his sister Lori were a great help with organizing the details of both the wedding and the memorial service.

My Daughter Kim and her husband Don, and the grand kids Jordan, Corinne and Elise, who have had much experience playing at weddings and funerals, played all the music at both the wedding and Bergie’s memorial service. My other grandson Gavin was our ring bearer at the wedding ceremony. Cyndy’s daughter Debbie was the matron of honor, Debbie’s 2 daughter’s Regan and Madison were junior brides maids. Cyndy’s son David was the officiator of the wedding ceremony. Kevin, Debbie’s husband was the best man, Davids wife Carrie was a photographer along with Joe, Lori’s husband.

As you can see most of the family members were involved and both ceremonies were beautifully done and went off without a hitch.

Most of the family members have gone back to there respective lives and Cyndy and I are getting ready to return to our trailer in San Diego.

It has been both wonderful at our wedding celebration and sad at the memorial service in remembrance of the extraordinary life of Berghild Livermore, we will all miss her.

Now as I look out the window at the beautiful New England autumn colors it reminds me of the beauty and contentment that Cyndy and I share together in the autumn of our years.

Weddings and funerals

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Tagged: family · friends · funeral · group · new england · san diego · wedding

Expense of Full Timing

Sep 30th, 2011

by Howard.

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Cyndy and I have learned, after 8 years of traveling full time, that keeping expenses to a minimum as much as possible by looking ahead and being prepared while traveling over the road is extremely important.

One of the biggest expenses of full timing is fuel. When we first started traveling full time, fuel (we have a diesel truck) was around $1.65 per gallon, as we all know those days are gone and have been replaced by $4.00 to $5.00 a gallon for diesel fuel. Screaming foul and getting upset about how wrong it is to charge such prices, as Cyndy points out continually, in an attempt to lower my blood pressure, is not going to change the unfortunate fact that oil companies are going to continue to gouge the public to insure their gluttonous quarterly profits.

The first thing we did to help defray this expense, was to add a one hundred gallon auxiliary fuel tank. Once that was installed we began searching for the lowest fuel prices available in area’s we would be traveling through. A great resource for this is at gasbuddy.com We go to this web site whenever we are low on fuel and are looking for a lower than normal fuel price in areas where we will be traveling. In many instances we can save as much as 50 cents per gallon, with the 100 gallon auxiliary tank and the standard tank of 45 gallons we can save as much as $70 on a fill up.

The other major expense is of course the cost of RV parks and campgrounds that we stay at while traveling, which has also increased over the years. Cyndy and I have come up with a number of ideas to reduce these expenses without giving up the three important hookups, water,sewer and electric. On occasion if we have an empty or almost empty black water tank we have saved on the rate by staying at a space with no sewer hookup.

A great way to save on park rates is by joining an RV club called Passport America. They are recognized by 1700 RV parks across the country and when you join they give you a directory with all the parks that accept their discount. The cost to join is $44 a year which gives you a 50% discount at all participating parks. The discount is usually for only the first one or two days, however at today’s prices the $44 dollar fee is paid for after two or three stays at the participating parks. It’s great when traveling cross country and only staying one night at a park. For Cyndy and I Passport America has paid for itself many times over in savings.

Cyndy and I have also become member of the Elks and Moose Lodges. These organizations in many cases have RV parking available at exceptional savings over a normal RV park and are nationwide.

There are also State and County parks that have RV parking available at substantial savings, whenever we consider one of these parks we always check if larger 5th wheels are able to navigate the interior roads and if the spaces are large enough to accommodate a 36 ft rig.

Living on a fixed income as Cyndy and I do and with rising cost of goods and services, it is very important that we watch our expenses closely and continually look for ways to save and still be able to follow the full timing life style we love.

OUR TRAVELS

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Tagged: 5th wheel · aux tank · campground · camping · fuel cost · rally · rv · rv park · rvers · SAVING MONEY · travel · traveling · trip

Lakeshore Inn

Sep 19th, 2011

by Howard.

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Cyndy and I are still in Lakehead California visiting with her son David and his family. We are planning to leave tomorrow and drive to Redding, Ca. and spend a couple of days at the Elks Lodge relaxing by the Sacramento River and then continuing on south to our ultimate destination in San Diego.

Our nine days here at the Lakeshore Inn have been very enjoyable, we went to a baseball practice, for Mathew our grandson, and watched as parents and coaches tried to keep their three year old’s focused on catching the ball, hitting the ball and running the bases. As I sat there and watched it became evident that a three year old’s attention span is somewhere in the neighborhood of one to three seconds the slightest noise or movement and what the parents and coaches were trying to get the kids to do went out the window and the kids went off in a whole new direction. It was hysterical to watch.

I also spent some time with David and his friend Ben on Ben’s patio guide boat fishing on Lake Shasta. We caught a total of ten nice rainbow trout that are now sitting in Davids freezer waiting for the outdoor grill.

We had a nice visit with David’s uncle Skip at Pollard flat just a little north of Lakehead at Skips beautiful mountain home overlooking the Sacramento River. Where Skip and I got into a long political discussion on saving our country, but that’s a whole other story.

It has been a very pleasant time here at the Lakeshore Inn and as always the people here are very nice and accommodating. If you ever find yourself in Northern California in the Lakehead or Mt. Shasta area and are looking for a friendly inexpensive RV park with all the amenities including a restaurant and pool, I highly recommend the Lakeshore Inn and RV Park.

Lakeshore Inn

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Tagged: campground · camping · family · FISHING · Lakehead · lakeshore inn · rv · rv park · rvers · sacramento river · travel · traveling

Smoking Wheel

Sep 10th, 2011

by Howard.

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In the previous post I mentioned that Cyndy and I were headed south and planned to be in Lakehead, Ca. the Tuesday after labor day. However part of the adventure of traveling full time in a 5th wheel trailer is you never know when problems will arise that will change your travel schedule for days. Which is exactly the situation that descended upon us as we pulled into a rest stop on interstate 5 about 10 miles north of Yreka, California at about 11a.m. on the Friday before Labor Day .

We stopped at the rest stop so that I could us the bathroom in the trailer, as I was coming back out of the trailer I noticed an odor that smelled like something electrical or metal burning . when I got back to the truck I told Cyndy, and suggested that she go to the trailer and give her evaluation of what it might be. When she walked back to the trailer before she had a chance to go inside and see what she could smell, she noticed a thin trail of smoke rising up from the front right side wheel of the trailer.

Before I continue with the story let me point out two things that in hind sight I now realize. Number one a guardian angel, or some higher power beyond ourselves had given me the urge to go to the bathroom which made me pull into that rest stop, and number two smelling that slight funny odor and saying something to Cyndy, instead of just passing it off, which I might well have done, was again a guardian angel, or higher power that caused this sequence of events to transpire that probably saved our lives the lives of others and last but not least saved our trailer from burning to the ground as we drove down the road.

When Cyndy saw the smoke she called me back to the trailer and said ” look the wheel is smoking”, we both stood there starring in silence and disbelief at the front wheel of the trailer as it continued to smoke. I think it took somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 seconds or so for our minds to fully process this information look at each other and say,” holy expletive, this is not good”!

Luckily we have Coach-Net that covers this type of situation, so we made a call and were assured that help was on the way. The downside to all of this was that our travel schedule ( to coin a phrase) was toast.

After about an hour wait at the rest stop, a mechanic from C. W. Automotive located in Yreka showed up pulled the right front wheel off of the trailer, chained the front axle to the frame and followed us as we limped to his shop in Yreka.

We spent the afternoon in Yreka having lunch and passing the time as we waited for the repair of our wheel. The mechanic determined that there was a kink in our brake line , it is anybody’s guess how that happened, this caused the brake on that wheel to not release completely and over heat to the point that the brake shoes disintegrated.

On a Friday afternoon before a holiday it was not possible to find all the parts, but the mechanic was able to resurface the rotor and replace the brake shoes this gave us a temporary fix so we could get to Mt. Shasta and an RV park for the holiday weekend.

Saturday, Sunday and Monday ( Labor day), Cyndy and I enjoyed relaxing in and around Mt Shasta. We spent our time at a street hot rod car show, searching out and picking black berries, drowning a worm in Lake Siskiyou and visiting with our friends Joyce and Leroy who live in McCloud. Also Cyndy was overjoyed to reconnect with her friends from the past, David and Susan who she hadn’t seen in 25 Yrs.

Tuesday morning we drove into Redding, Ca. to All Wheel Alignment & Brake, a repair shop recommended in Nick Russell’s booklet “The Gypsy Journals guide to RV Good Guys” found in The Gypsy Journal, and were pleasantly surprised by the courtesy of their staff.

After discussing our situation at the main desk a mechanic by the name of Daniel told us to park the trailer in front of one of the bays, he explained that it would probably be at least a couple of days maybe longer to order and get the parts necessary to do the repairs. He went on to explain that they had a 50 amp hookup and a water source we could use allowing us to stay in this spot at no additional charge while they got the parts and did the repairs. Daniel and the other mechanics did a professional job and always kept us informed of their progress.

We arrived at the All Wheel alignment & Brake Shop on Tuesday afternoon and were back on the road Friday afternoon with a complete new brake system on the trailer. The only reason that it took 3 days instead of one was because we had to wait 2 days for the parts to arrive. While we waited we were able to come and go as we pleased, they even gave us the combination to the front gate so that we could leave and return after the shop was closed.

It was an expensive repair and one we were not expecting , but the professionalism and courtesy that we were shown by the people at All Wheel Alignment & Brake turned a bad situation into a positive experience, and from the conversations we overheard from other customers, that came and went while we were there , we were not the only ones that felt that way.

We are now at the RV park at Lakehead, Ca. visiting with David and his family thankful that our unfortunate incident turned out to be a positive experience, and we are hopeful that our guardian angel continues to watch over us as we travel down the road.

Mt Shasta

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Tagged: 5th wheel · brakes · Lakehead · maintenance · Mt Shasta · repair · vehicle

A Visit to Northern California and Central Oregon

Sep 5th, 2011

by Howard.

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After leaving our friends in Park Sierra, Cyndy and I decided to head north toward central Oregon. We like to take it easy when we travel, so we don’t spend too much time each day on the road. We like to keep our drive to about 200 miles a day or about 3 to 4 hours of travel time which puts us at our destination in plenty of time to set up our 5th wheel trailer and settle in for the evening before the sun goes down.
Oroville, Ca. is about a 235 mile drive from Park Sierra and a perfect place for us to stop for Our first evening on the road. It worked out especially well because it gave us a chance to see our friends Ray and Jan, whom we had met a couple of years earlier. We were able to spend the evening with them and see the beautiful home they built overlooking Lake Oroville. We had a wonderful Dinner and talked about where we had been and what we had both been up to.
The following day was an easy drive of just over 100 miles to Lakehead, Ca. where Cyndy’s son David lives with his wife Carrie and our 3yr old grandson Mathew. We spent a couple of days with them and then moved on north to Klamath Falls, Oregon about 130 miles from Lakehead where we spent a couple of day’s visiting with my cousin Gay and her husband Lee and their family. They to have a beautiful home with a spectacular view of the Klamath River Valley with Mt. Shasta in the distance. It was great seeing them again and catching up on what we had all been up to since our last get together in 2005.
The next stop on our journey north was 152 miles north on Oregon highway 97 at Redmond, Oregon where my cousin Jim and his wife Joann live.
Jim and I did a lot of camping and hiking together as kids in the mountains of Colorado so whenever we get together we always go camping somewhere and this time was no exception. Jim and Joann took us to a secluded campground outside of a little town called Sister, Oregon where we camped in our tents for three days enjoying the beauty of the surroundings, playing cards, cooking with our camp stoves , relaxing around the campfire, laughing and telling stories. It was a very enjoyable relaxing time.
After leaving Jim and Joann we made one more stop north at a campground called Fisherman’s Bend just north of Mill City, Oregon on Highway 22 about 120 miles from Redmond and 30 miles from Salem.
Our friends Kent and Sharon are hosts at Fisherman’s Bend and set us up in a picturesque pull through site where we stayed for 3 days visiting, playing cards and enjoying the scenery. On Kent’s day off he and I did a little fishing at the Detroit reservoir which is close to Mill City. We had a great time even though Kent was the only one that caught a fish,( a nice rainbow trout).
We are now headed back south on Interstate 5 and will end up back at Lakehead the Tuesday after Labor Day.
It was a wonderful trip and it was great seeing friends and family.
Cyndy and I love to travel and hope to be able to continue exploring new places meeting new friends and sharing with current friends and family for many years to come.

Northern Ca and Oregon

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Tagged: camp stove · campfire · campground · camping · mountain · scenic mountains

From Park Sierra to Yosemite and Back

Aug 13th, 2011

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On Sunday August 7,2011 Cyndy and I along with our close friends Joe and Alene, left our base at Park Sierra RV Park and embarked on a wonderful days journey to Yosemite National Park in central California.
It was an absolutely beautiful summer day, mild temperatures clear blue skies and a slight mountain breeze that brought with it the smell of mountain pines. It was one of those days that makes you love just being alive and able to experience the beauty of everything around you.
We left the Park Sierra RV Park around 10:30 am and drove north on Hwy 41 through the little town of Coarsegold and on into Oakhurst where we stopped for gas and a few odds and ends, then it was on to the southern entrance of Yosemite National Park.
There is an entry fee of $20 per vehicle that is good for seven days, however since we have a golden age pass our entry into the park was free. ” If it’s free it’s me” if you know what I mean.
From Park Sierra RV Park to the south entrance of Yosemite is about a 30 to 40 minute drive which put us in the park just a little before noon. Once in the park we headed straight for Glacier point, which is one of the most spectacular views of mountains,valleys,canyons,huge granite towers and domes anywhere in the world and one of the main reasons that almost 4 million people visit the park each year. Because of it’s popularity, we all figured on a beautiful Sunday like this, the Park would be jammed with wall to wall people. We were pleasantly surprised however, because even though there were quite a few people, the park wasn’t over crowded so getting around and finding places to park was relatively easy which made the day even better.
After walking to most of the scenic viewing platforms available for sightseeing and picture taking at the Glacier point area, we headed back down the hill toward Bridal veil falls. Just after passing through a tunnel, we stopped in a little parking area on the right hand side of the road where we sat on stone blocks at one end of the parking lot to have a little picnic lunch of fried chicken that we picked up at Raley’s market in Oakhurst on the way to the park.We also had some deviled eggs and salad that we had prepared the night before, YUM YUM!
After our picnic lunch we took a leisurely drive to bridal veil falls and some more picture taking then on toward mirror lake.
We all decided not to walk all the way to mirror lake, us old folks were full of food and not in the mood for a long walk, so we just hung around a small pond near the parking area and watched as the younger generation played in the water and sun bathed on the boulders surrounding the pond. What a relaxing no stress afternoon.
Our next stop was the Ahwahnee Hotel an amazing landmark constructed in 1927 at a cost of $1,225,000 using 5,000 tons of rough-cut granite, 1,000 tons of steel, and 30,000 feet of timber. The ‘wood siding’ and ‘structural timber’ on the exterior of the hotel is actually formed of stained concrete poured into molds to simulate a wood pattern. Concrete was chosen as the material for the outside ‘wood’ elements to add fire resistance to the hotel. The beauty and majesty of the hotels exterior and interior is a marvel unmatched anywhere in the world and looks as though it had always been a part of its majestic surroundings. We browsed the shops and stopped in the bar where along with Cyndy, I had one of the best cups of coffee I have ever tasted. Then we went into the huge lobby of the hotel and sat in front of a fireplace that was so big you could stand in the opening and chatted about the days events and how much we were all enjoying ourselves.
From there we headed out of the park and back toward home with a stop in Mariposa, Ca. on Hwy 49 at the Butterfly cafe where we had dinner on their outdoor patio.
It was the perfect ending to a perfect day and one we will all remember and reminisce about for many years to come.

Yosemite

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Tagged: 5th wheel · campground · camping · friends · mountain · national park · rv · rvers · scenic view · trip · yosemite

Good Times at Park Sierra

Aug 6th, 2011

by Howard.

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If you are a member of the Escapees R.V. Club, if your not you should be, and you are traveling through central California, a great place to visit is the Park Sierra R.V. Park on Highway 41 at Coarsegold, California between Fresno and Yosemite National Park. It’s in a picturesque location with 254 sites on winding, hilly roads, with native oak-pine-manzanita vegetation. As in most escapees R.V. parks the people are very friendly and accommodating with various activities available in a 15,000 ft. club house.

Cyndy and I took a tour of the park a couple of years ago and were very impressed with the beauty and friendliness of the park. Since that time we have become acquainted with 2 couples that are lot owners in the park and are here visiting with one of the couples and enjoying traveling around the area for a few days.

One of our trips was to the Wishon Reservoir in the High Sierras above Shaver Lake California. The area is absolutely beautiful with winding mountain roads lined with huge redwood pine trees leading to the reservoir surrounded by huge domes of granite and the dark blue crystal clear waters of the lake on one side of the reservoir and a massive canyon on the other side below the dam.

We are also planning a drive and picnic at Yosemite National Park. One of the most beautiful national parks in the U.S.

The great thing about staying at Park Sierra are these beautiful scenic spots are less than a two hour drive away.

It is a very special experience to be able to enjoy these places of beauty with special friends we have met through our association with the Escapees R.V. club.

As Cyndy and I continue our full timing adventure we look forward to meeting many more interesting people and visiting a multitude of exciting beautiful and interesting places.