Our start to 2018 included a trip to the home of Tiffin Motor Homes, in Red Bay, Alabama. We needed to get some body work done on the front end of the RV due to a little mishap. There are several local businesses run by former employee’s of Tiffin to do work outside of the very busy service center. I chose McKinney Motor Home Repair (256-356-8634) which is right behind the main manufacturing plant. It is run by Daniel McKinney…
After a fun filled visit with family in Jacksonville, we headed west to Pensacola Beach. There is a nearby National Park, called Gulf Shores National Seashore, which has a great Campground right on the Ocean on a narrow barrier island. Talk about quiet and remote, from the entrance station it was about 8 miles to the campground. For the bargain price of $29 a night you get a site with 50 amp electricity and water with a nearby dump station. …
Weare back in the St. Augustine area to visit my brother Kevin and his wife Cindy and their kids Ryan and Katrina for Thanksgiving and into the middle of December. This is similar to what we did last year and had such a good time we decided a repeat was in order. last time we were only here for about two weeks which was not enough time, so this year I made the stop about four weeks. We were also…
We have officially reached one year on the Road in our RV. It is amazing how fast it as gone. In a year we traveled out to the west coast, spent about 1/2 the year going from Southern California up into Washington, then put the RV on the Ferry to Victoria, British Columbia. We turned around and headed south back to Southern California. We jumped across the US to get to the Tiffin Factory in Red Bay, Alabama to get…
So we have finalized our travel plans for 2018. We will start the year in Florida along the beach in Pensacola, FL and moving west along the coast and into the heart of Texas. Here is a quick summary of our plans if you want to try and find us and go RVing with us along the way. Mon, January 1 to Thu, to January 11 – Gulfport, MS Thu, January 11 to Thu, January 18 – Port Arthur, TX…
One of things you have to be flexible on is your plans, things are going to happen around you with family and friends that you want to try and help out. Since we are retired, it is a little easier to say, let’s go here and see what we can do to help out when things happen. This year we have mostly stuck to our main plans with some minor tweaks as we traveled up the west coast into Canada….
So our two West Highland Terrier’s (called “Westies”) are a integral part of our travels and I decided to include some of the photo’s showing what they have been doing on our travels. Layla (on left, wears the lilac colored collar) and Phoebe (on right with pink collar) in their traveling mode….. So as you can see they have a rough life traveling to all these strange places and get to explore all these new smells…but they do keep us…
Although we post a lot about where we went, sometimes the Journey between Destinations is also part of the RV lifestyle we have chosen. We just made the trip from Crater Lake in Oregon down south to Lake Oroville in California. Along the way we were treated to some spectacular sights along the way. Sometimes these sights are as nice as the destination we were either coming from or where we were going to, so I thought I would share…
Wer finally made it to Crater lake, as must visit place on our Bucket list. Although we had some haze from nearby forest fires, it still was breathtaking. We got a great site to fit the RV into, but one thing we did find out that since we are in an volcanic area, it was pretty dusty from the ash that fell 7000 years ago when crater lake was formed. We did a drive up to the Crater lake Lodge…
We took the Black Ball Ferry from Port Angeles, WA to Victoria, BC. It was a tight fit, since the ferry is smaller than the BC Ferries that run from Vancouver to Victoria, but we made a reservation to ensure we got a spot on the ship. We arrived in Victoria and stayed at Fort Victoria RV Park a few miles outside of town. We were able to use bicycle trails to ride into town, about a 4 mile trek…