http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Travels 4 2/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Travels 4 2 en-us Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:11:46 BST Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:11:46 BST We arrived in Beaune parked up in a layby and cycled up to Mikersquos house to assess the parking situation helliphellip.. It looked goodish so we decided to attempt to ldquodockrdquo. Now here is a sad facthelliphellip. The last time we were here several years ago and very much in the ldquoprerigrdquo era Graeme had sized up the space with regard to parking a 39ft http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/West-Sussex/Chichester/blog-167459.html I know I know having not heard from us for 3 months some of you then suddenly get 8 Blog alerts. You are not alone. I even managed to send them to myself. The Blog site suffered a serious gremlin attack. Whilst sneakily sending some of you the alert it was telling me ldquoerror unable to publishrdquo. I did what any normal computerimpatient person would do and just kept hitting the se http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Burgundy/Beaune/blog-152607.html Here we are 3 months later At last a Wi FI internet connection and a chance to send a blog. Knowing we would have limited internet access I have been writing blog notes as we travel as from experience I knew I would not remember what we had done or what to include. So at the risk of boring those of you we met up with in Jan I have left the content of the blog as it is covering events from o http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Spain/Andalusia/Grazalema/blog-145117.html Our last night in the Rig was spent in the Jungle which after weeks in Wildwood was really nice. . After a busy morning filling emptying refilling and sterilising tanks for those of you who like the technical details thatrsquos the black grey and fresh a total of 160 gallons each time in preparation for shipping. We eventually arrived at our last destination a little before dusk. http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Florida/Orlando/blog-112925.html I was not really looking forward to Florida partly because it is the end of our journey here and we knew reality was rather cruelly going to intrude on our lives however Graeme spotted a hole in his reality and climbed through it so we proceeded to ignore the essential pressing tasks required and continued our current lifestyle for a bit longer and partly because I thought Florida full o http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Florida/Orlando/blog-108347.html Due to several factors we didnrsquot spend a lot of time in New England weather and RV park availability to name two New England consists of the 6 Eastern States Maine New Hampshire Connecticut Massachusetts Vermont and Rhode Island tiniest US state They are renowned for their beauty especially during the ldquoFallrdquo Autumn to us Brits because of the spectacular display of t http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Florida/St-Augustine/blog-99133.html Nova Scotia helliphellip I have to say in all my travel planning and dreaming Nova Scotia had never really entered my consciousness. As we were now poised to travel around the area I began to give it some thought. The name Nova Scotiahellip..New Scotland may give a clue but it remains to be seen how accurate this analogy is.Nova Scotia is Canadarsquos 2nd smallest province. It is alm http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/St-John/blog-92340.html We were so excited to be on our way thenhelliphellip our Fantastic or not so fan broke. Still it was not all bad because as luck would have it we were driving right past the factory on our way to the Border. The web site said ldquocall in any time we will be pleased to repair replace your fan for freerdquo. After a month what difference did another day make So we delayed our pl http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/Nova-Scotia/Halifax/blog-84806.html Well we have served our sentence in ldquoCamp Monacordquo and it feels like a life time. Having never spent more than 2 week in any one beautiful place we are now on week 4 in a car park in Elkhart Indiana. Not that Indiana is an awful place it isnrsquot. It a lush green agricultural state famous for being home to one of the largest Amish and Mennonite communities home of the RV i http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Indiana/Elkhart/blog-81077.html Howdy Yrsquoallhellip.. this has been the southern part of our tour and yet again is a complete contrast. It has been hot and humid almost tropical....... you expect to see giraffes drinking at the water's edge not long horn cattle. As I write this we are sitting out in a warm balmy night after a crushingly humid day chirruping things chirping bitey things biting fire flies glowing http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Illinois/Chicago/blog-71892.html Hi AllWell it has been a while since the last blog. We have had a few enquiries as to where we are. I donrsquot know how the time goes so fast. I think ldquooh itrsquos to soon to do another one yetrdquo and then before we know it we have been everywhere and have so much to tell Well here we gohelliphelliphellip.. Guess what We didnrsquot quite make it out of Mexico for Easter http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/New-Mexico/Albuquerque/blog-61858.html Pressing the ldquosendrdquo button was the last task my computer performed before hitting melt down. It had been developing strange and erratic behaviour and is now well truly kaput. Circuit Board history I guess. Originally Graeme was keen to wait to get home before purchasing another due to potential import warranty problems etc but a few days of pestering to use his has soon chang http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Sinaloa/El-Fuerte/blog-51976.html We ended the last blog heading off to meet to meet Trish and Neal with plenty of time in hand. However as often happens we did get side tracked on the way. Prior to leaving England I found a web site posted by a couple called Kathe Colleen. They are seasoned travellers through Mexico Central America and were an excellent source of information for us. Kathe responded promptly and answered our http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/blog-41612.html Or itrsquos a long way to go to avoid turkey Our transition to Mexico began the first night we camped at Nogales USA side and immediately sensed a differenceThere was a Mexican Christmas fiesta in progress hey Macerena was playing loudly Kids were kicking up the autumn leaves in 70 F sunshine. Santa was handing out gifts a very loud disco Mexican norm we soon realised commenced we beg http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Mexico/Chiapas/Palenque/blog-37420.html Howdy Folks HAPPY CHRISTMAS to you all hope you are not too exhausted from all the festivities already. We thought we would take this opportunity to send you seasons greetings and do a quick Blog before we head off into the IT wilderness of Mexico. We really enjoyed our first Thanksgiving experience thanks to Ian Margie for taking us and Edie for inviting us. We had a great day in excellent http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Arizona/Tucson/blog-31704.html Social whirl our first ThanksgivingHallo wersquore back. There has been a bit of a gap in the blog for several reasons. First of all we had friends visiting which was very nice and secondly the internet connection has been to slow to upload pictures. The third reason follows below and although I donrsquot want to bore you too much with the details it was a very interesting experience and http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/blog-28515.html Well we're back in the USA. It is obviously growing on us because as we crossed the border we almost experienced a ldquoback homerdquo feeling. Once again we had a very pleasant customs officer and it all went very smoothly.Having crossed the border into Montana we headed to Glacier national park. It is illegal to take a vehicle longer than 28ft through the park so we took a tour on the ld http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Nevada/Reno/blog-22813.html Bears Whales Wolves Deer Elk Moose Mountain Goats we have seen them all. Some much closer than others It has been so exciting.Where do I begin we have seen so much over the last few weeks it is difficult to prcis it all. Here we are sitting in our rig in Fairmont RV park part of a hot spring resort surrounded by mountains. In the morning being high up we look down on the morning mist in http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/Alberta/Banff/blog-20495.html Yakama Washington to Vancouver Island BCDeep breath every one this could be a long one.The reservation turned out to be an excellent find. We spent 4 days there as it was a lovely park and we made use of all amenities. The temp hit 110f so the pool was much appreciated.There is also a museum Native American library and cultural centre which were hugely interesting and educational so thatrsquos http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver-Island/Victoria/blog-17592.html Well its all falling into place after spending the afternoon watching a volcano grow I am now in a truck stop rest station cooking supper Graeme is playing his newly acquired guitar. The last volcano I walked crawled up Ecuador I remember thinking ldquoonce is probably enoughrdquo but this was American style and all very civilised. Luckily the James disaster affect did not occur a http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Washington/Mt-Rainier/blog-15629.html