After packing up and taking our morning walk, we headed for the Canadian border. We have traveled just over 2000 miles since we started our trip. We crossed in Portage, Saskatchewan. We had no difficulties crossing the border and registering our shot gun. We learned that with the exchange fee, our US Dollar is worth 97 cents. We also learned we are in Mountain Time and we gained another hour. ( I wonder where the mountains are?) Crossing the border did not change the landscape, we are still in the prairies. We are really need to start seeing something different then [View Full Entry]

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Quietness. Upon the dawn, the chirping of birds. How pleasant it is here on Sauk Lake. The geese and ducks wander nearby as we prepare to start our day. A long, hot shower on a cool spring morning, a bowl of oatmeal with raisins, toast with crunchy peanut butter, it doesn‘t get any better than this. The nights have been in the forties, but our van has stayed in the fifties at night, very comfortable sleeping temperature. Continuing on Route 94 we are traveling along prairies. Passing a pond on the side of the road, we spot what looks like white [View Full Entry]

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A very wet night gave way to a beautiful, clear blue sky, morning. The wet tent was packed away after breakfast and after our morning walk we headed west on Route 12 toward Chicago. Just outside the park was a beautiful doe, standing in the middle of the road. By the time I got my camera, she was gone. Back on Route 90 we drove through Chicago. It was Dave’s first time in the city. He was really impressed with the highway system that took us through the city and the great condition of the highway. In 35 years of driving [View Full Entry]

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Cool morning, beautiful sunrise. What a great way to wake up and face the new day. Showers, breakfast, a morning walk and we are off on the second day of our great adventure. Leaving Lake Erie State Park behind us, we passed through “wine country” Dave thought, as we drove along the Erie shores and noticed lots of grape vines growing on trellises. Once on Route 90 we headed west for a lunch date with two wonderful people, Ken and Janice. Ken and Janice are full-time RV’ers who happen to be staying in Oregon, Ohio doing some bird watching. When they [View Full Entry]

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The start of a new trip is always exciting, usually coupled with a little anxiety. Where will this adventure take us and what experiences will we have in the next two months as we trek up to Alaska? Adventure is good for the soul and keeps life interesting. What does the future hold? I guess we will find out one day at a time. This is the first of those days. We started our first day by getting up at 4:00 am. We walked a mile and then went to Dave’s Diner in Middleboro, MA for a farewell breakfast with our [View Full Entry]

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Hi Friends and Family, Dave and I are heading out again. This time we are driving to Alaska, leaving Raynham on May 16. We are really excited about our 2-month trip to the "Last Frontier". We will be driving through Buffalo, Chicago and on up into North Dakota before crossing into Canada. We are leaving the fifth-wheel at home and taking the van once again. For this trip though, we have bought a tent that attaches to the back of the van and becomes part of it. Instead of sitting in the van at night to watch movies, we will be [View Full Entry]

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Dave and I left Maryland around 8:30 am. We drove over the the Delaware Memorial Bridge, into Pennsylvania, up the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey, into New York and over the Tapanzee Bridge. We then went through Connecticut, into Rhode Island, and finally into Massachusetts. We drove over the Braga Bridge in Fall River, up Route 24 and onto Route 44 and then we arrived home at about 4:45 pm. It was great to be home. We were met by Jessica, Keith, Sammantha and Brooke. Jessie had cleaned our house for us and also cooked supper for us. What a [View Full Entry]

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We decided to stay at Michelle and Paul's house with our granddaughters, Rachel, Renee and Anna. It was a well deserved rest after the long days' drive yesterday. The girls kept us busy, on the swings and then taking a walk. It was great for me, it was the first time we saw TV in 6 weeks and I got to see the Patriots beat Buffalo in the football game. Go Pats! We went to a Japanese Hibachi Grill for supper and had a chef prepare our food in a grill at our table. There was a huge fire and the [View Full Entry]

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We are getting spoiled with this hotel stuff. However, we have decided to head home because of Dave's leg. We don't want to take any chances and will have it checked as soon as possible. We decided to drive to my daughter, Michelle's house in Maryland - 665 miles away. It was a lot of driving, but we stopped every few hours so Dave could walk around a little. We left Lebanon, TN and arrived in Sykesville about 12 hours later. It was beautiful country here, green rolling hills and mountains on the horizons. We saw some jets flying into formations. [View Full Entry]

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We spent one horribly hot, sticky night at Red Rock Canyon State Park in Hinton, OK. We didn't get much sleep. Also the bathrooms were filthy. We decided to have breakfast on the road and stopped at the Gavin Family Restaurant in Hinton. I had pancakes and coffee and Dave had a bagel with egg, cheese and ham with coffee and the bill came to $7. We stopped for gas at the shell and got 2 coffees to go and they cost $.54 each. It was a very hazy,hot morning and again not much to see along the road. We stopped [View Full Entry]

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