Motorhome News from North America 35 3rd February - 14th February 2007 Texas, ‘The Lone Star State’, to the Rio Grande and Mexico Life takes on the rhythm of the tide, routine and habit, daily chores and hourly challenges, writing and reading, new distant places and smiling faces, as we circle around this huge continent like the hands of a clock along its highways and byways. Is it not surprising then, that we might sometimes miss the obvious? Janice, ever observant, alertly tuned to the sights and sounds of people and places, suddenly realised that postmen are t [View Full Entry]

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Motorhome News from North America 34 24th January - 2nd February 2007 ‘Oh, when the Saints go marching in.’ Our arrival in New Orleans coincided with the big match - the NFL semi-final, and the flags and signs were flying on every street corner; ‘Go Saints!’ But sadly, the Saints were sent marching out - mauled by the Chicago Bears, and by early evening the city was in shock. The Bears move on to the SuperBowl, leaving the Saints to lick their wounds and regroup before next season. They’ve had a good run, but a win would have offered new hope [View Full Entry]

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Motorhome News from North America 33 13th January - 23rd January 2007 Around the Florida Panhandle to the Deep South Janice heard it first. A very faint tap, tap, tapping…. a squeak - the squeak of a small rubber toy. It was 7.45am. It was cold. A very cold January morning on the Panhandle. The temperature had dropped dramatically overnight from 75 to 40 degrees. We arrived at daybreak, listening, alert, whispering, shivering, watching for the slightest movement in the open pinewoods of our campground at Ochlockonee State Park - as the shallow light of a morning sun ca [View Full Entry]

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Motorhome News from North America 32 28th December - 12th January 2007 A winding route up the west coast of Florida - to the Panhandle North of Florida’s Everglade swamplands, flat fertile fields segment the landscape; market gardens rich with fruit and vegetables: tomatoes, melons, beans, strawberries, mango and citrus, lychee, peppers, aubergines and bananas - and nurseries with row upon row of royal palms, bright orchids and colourful bougainvilleas ready to grace the south’s burgeoning housing estates. White busses were parked on open fields, their passengers amongst [View Full Entry]

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Motorhome News from North America 31 16th - 27th December 2006 Florida. Down the east coast to The Everglades and The Florida Keys. It takes a while to recover from the relentless joy of exploring Disneyworld day after day and long into the night. We’re still standing, still walking, though the pace has slowed, the hiking distances less challenging for a while. The south Florida heat is relentless too. It is not so much the heat - in the upper 70’s and 80’s most of the time - but the humidity: 98%, sticky and sweaty by midday. Our air-conditioning works fine, [View Full Entry]

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Motorhome News from North America 30 4th - 15th December 2006 Florida - Disney and a Space Shuttle launch. All in one week! A week or so in another world It was the 5th January 2007 before we discovered our mistake. There had been no complaints, no questions asked from either side of the pond (except for brother Michael - thanks Mike). Y’all had been rushing around like frustrated reindeer preparing for Christmas, totally and blissfully unaware that Newsletter 30 had never reached your computers - and we were equally unaware it had not been sent. Now and again, our wireless [View Full Entry]

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Motorhome News from North America 29 19th November - 3rd December 2006 ‘Georgia on my mind’ Tourism is vital to the economy of most towns we visit on our journey south, and a rich history of colonisation, civil war, slavery and international trade make for a pot-pourri of interesting places to see and opportunities to learn. We often remark there is some danger of reaching the point of ‘tourist attraction’ saturation after so many months on the road. Such was the case at Beaufort in South Carolina (this one pronounced ‘boofoot’ to distinguish i [View Full Entry]

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Motorhome News from North America 28 8th - 18th November 2006 ‘Nothin’ could be finer than to be in Carolina…..’ It took four days for the new toilet cables to arrive by carrier - and one and a half hours to fit them. The break from travelling allowed us to relax for a while and catch up with planning for the next month or two. Then, with all systems go, we set off south from New Bern in pouring rain, down along the coast through the Carolina flatlands reminiscent of Holland, following the chain of beautiful islands, long sandy beaches and [View Full Entry]

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Motorhome News from North America 27 26th October - 7th November 2006 From The Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia all the way to North Carolina How y’all doin’ today? Many States across North America have ‘Visitor Welcome Centres’ along the highway as you enter. We find them an essential source of information. The Virginia centre out of Washington DC provided all we needed to get us inland through the Blue Ridge Mountains and back out to the coast over the next week or so, with copious details of hiking trails and birding. The hiking trails looked great, but [View Full Entry]

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Motorhome News from North America 26 15th October - 25th October 2006 New York, New York and Washington Somewhere amongst our 35mm slide archives back home there’s a photo of Janice and I looking across the bay towards Sydney Harbour Bridge. “We’ve arrived,” Janice said, smiling. “This is Australia.” By that time we had already been in Australia for nearly three weeks. Such is the power of the mind. There are pictures framed in both memory and expectation, of people and places, sounds and feelings - and they were all there, tucked up in [View Full Entry]

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