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 flat fields and mostly treeless plains. Here comes the fun part, centigrade, kilometers, liters, etc. This should be challenging for the next week. I freak every time a see a sign that shows how far ... read more

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 through major cities in the East, he has never seen such a smooth interstate that rolled through a city. Well done Chicago! Oprah’s taxes are being well spent. Chicago’s skyline in beautiful. I have been ... read more

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 favorite waitress, Jo. We were on the road by 6:00 am, heading northwest. This is the general direction in which we will be traveling for the next 3 weeks. We have a date this afternoon ... read more

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 GREAT daughter! Footnote: Dave went to the doctor's Tuesday morning and then went to the hospital for an ultrasound. They found a blood clot in his leg and admitted him to the hospital immediately. As ... read more

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. Saw a lot of farm animals in the fields on the sides of the road. We went from TN to VA to WV and into MD. Just at dusk, we were passed by a group ... read more