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Canada here we come !

Commitments Made

Plans are firmed up.? Reservations are made.? Motor home is fueled up.? All we lack now is the date to get here so we can head out for our 5 week trip to Nova Scotia and back.? ?We have reservations with friends and historic and scenic places all setup on the calendar so we don’t forget anything.

Past Trip Memories

We uploaded another video to our Youtube channel that you might enjoy from some of our past trips.? Please check it out here.? If you like the channel subscribe, like, and turn on the notification button.? ?We also have several other channels that we really enjoy and would recommend you subscribe to those channels as well.? They are inspiring and thought provoking, entertaining as well as educational.

Recommended YouTube channels

“You Me and the RV”,? “Changing Lanes”,? “Less Junk < More Journey”,? “Keep Your Daydream” are the ones we have watched the most.? Trust me, with TV being what it is today,? this is much safer, and more entertaining, especially if you enjoy the RV lifestyle (part time or full time).? ?I feel like we know them and we haven’t met, but have commented back and forth on their videos.

Comment below

Let us know what your favorite RV destination is, and why.? ?Also let us know if you have other RV related youtube channels that you enjoy so we can watch them as well.? ?If you have any favorite state or national parks we would like to know that as well.

Question of the day

What software, web sites, books, phone aps, etc do you use when planning your cross country, multi-stop RV trips.? It is important to us to keep in touch with what others are doing so we don’t use obsolete or less that current tools for planning a safe journey across this great nation of ours.

Thanks
Coming to a campground near you soon.

Wayne and Norma

Big Trip Coming Up – 2019 stay tuned

Well, it is time to get the dirt daubers and spiders out of the motor home and start packing her up for our Summer RV Trip cross country tour. We seem to operate a little differently than the average “weekend warrior” or full-timers. We don’t do very many weekend quick trips, and I work part time from anywhere I can get good Wi-Fi signal. Norma works for the school system here so she is off every summer. This tends to give us a good way to travel during the summers to take long get-a-way trips to see many places that we would otherwise never have an opportunity to visit.

Plan Outline

With all that said, we are planning a “re-visit” tour up through Gettysburg, Harrisburg, Lancaster, Newburgh NYC, Boston/Plymouth, Kennebunkport, Portland, Bar-Harbor, Bangor, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. I know that is a lot of stops, but we will setup base camp in the RV and drive the Honda Civic to the specific points of interest. We plan to be gone a month +/- the drive there and back may slow us down a day or two. We Can’t Wait !!!

New You-tube Channel to compliment the blog

Check out our RVacationer you-tube channel to find out a little more about us and our setup. Please help us out by subscribing and hitting the “thumbs-up” and “notification bell”. This is a good way for us to share our experiences both good and bad with you, and get your comments back on how to improve, and find out from you things that will help us do better in the future.

Online Planning Tools

The online tools we us for planning are of course maps.google.com, then rvparky.com, www.rvtripwizard.com, which is a member based tool good for pin-pointing common points of interest like Walmart, Pilot, Flying J, etc, and displays warnings to avoid low bridges, toll roads, and other hazards that would be a problem for a big rig. Then we use the street view to do a virtual drive on any roads that are suspect for being narrow or tight neighborhoods getting into the campground.

Talk Soon. Hang in there Spring is nearly here !

2 weeks after getting home

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When we reached home, we parked everything, unloaded and pretty much just took it easy for a few days after getting home from such a long but wonderful journey across this great nation.?? After resting and catching up on mail, lawn care, and other items we fixed all the little tiny things that broke or stopped working during the trip.?? Nothing major, just things like the snap on velcro strap that holds the awning arms stationary while driving, and the backup camera went on the fritz.?? It turned out that the antenna was either in the wrong position or had oxidation on the connection.?? I moved it from vertical pointing up, to vertical pointing down and the camera started working again.

small-norma-wayne-lake_141503However,? We found that our upstairs, and downstairs hvac unit were not working and we had to get both of them repaired.? Our upstairs thermostat registered 04….. which on a 2 digit display meant 104.? It turned out to not be too serious, but we were grateful to get it fixed in this 99+ degree weather in North Alabama.? The toad air conditioner went out during the trip, but only on the return trip of our last time to use it on the excursion to Monument Valley.? It was the most expensive to fix, but still worth every penny in this heat.

20150604_111643We are now planning our next trip which will be up the east coast to Maine and maybe even Nova Scotia.? We are looking for points of interest on the way through Knoxville, Hershey and Harrisburg PA,? to Maine. ? We took a year to budget and plan for our past trip and we will probably take the same amount of time to plan and budget for our next journey.

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