Wandering Nan

I left Casey’s parents home in Denton early Saturday morning (October 16th) because I wanted to make it to Amarillo by night fall some 380 miles away. Quite a long day’s drive for me. It was a good road all the way and although I was certainly glad to see Amarillo it was a good day. I pulled out of Amarillo heading for Albuquerque so that Ike could visit his family. The visit went well and we were back on the road again full steam ahead for Pahrump, Nevada where I would stay for a week before we headed into Death Valley. Pahrump is a central gathering point for a lot of Solos coming west, my friend Leroy has a piece of property there that he has rigged out to accommodate a number of RVs with ... read more

I have been on the go ever since I left Niagara Falls so I am hoping to catch up on my travels over the next couple of weeks. By now most of you will know that I am going to be a grandmother again. Beverley and Casey are expecting their first baby in July. We are all very excited and are praying that all goes well. Here goes: I met a friend just west of Detroit on September 12th. Her name is Ida; she is native to Michigan and also a full-timer, so I was excited to explore the state with her. We took a trip with another couple of friends into Detroit; their home. Detroit was a thriving city of 2.5 million people in its hay-day, today there are less than 850,000. Needless to say, ... read more

I have contacted Travel Blog about the confusion the comment block is causing after the first picture. To see all the pictures scroll down below the block. I have been on the go for weeks and have covered a lot of territory. I took the opportunity during the week I was in Rochester, Massachusetts to go to visit Newport, Rhode Island and also go to John Kennedy’s Presidential Library in Boston. From Cape Cod I made my way up to Bar Harbour, Maine. I saw Harbour spelled with the ‘u’ and without. The RV park where I was staying for four days is on one of the little bays close to Arcadia National Park and lovely. From Bar Harbour I moved down the Maine coast to Old Orchard Beach, then back into Massachusetts just north of ... read more

Several years ago a Houston doctor came to make a presentation to the Bellville Historical Society on “Medicine during the Civil War.” The official number of the men who died during that conflict is 620+ thousand, but the doctor figured the number was closer to 700,000 when the men who left the battlefield and headed home with injuries that resulted in septicemia and death were taken into account. No penicillin in those days of course. A person cannot possibly visit Gettysburg and not feel the history. In the three day battle here fifty-one thousand men were either killed, injured or were missing. The wounded and dying were crowded into nearly every building in Gettysburg and the dead lay in shallow inadequate graves; some had not been buried at all. Land was purchased for a proper burial ... read more

From Marion I had a 400 mile trek up to Gloucester, Virginia. I had a full week ahead here too. A few years ago I had read James Michener’s book “Chesapeake” and wanted to go see Chesapeake Bay, in addition to visiting Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown. What was I thinking? There is just too much to see and do. I don’t know much about the American Revolution; or the Civil War for that matter; a person could spend a week here just acquiring some of that knowledge. The scenery is something else. I ran out of time and will have to cross the Chesapeake Bay via the famous bridge/tunnel some other time. There are two different entities in the Colonial Triangle area. The National Parks Service put emphasis on the historic buildings etc. They have exhibits ... read more