Greetings from dusty, windy Odessa! We are here visiting Don's nephew Chad and his wife Shawna. They were gracious enough to let us park on their 10 acre property. Chad works for an oil company here in Odessa but recently got a promotion and so they are in the process of packing and moving to Fort Collins, CO. They are very excited to leave Texas and venture to a new state. Chad and Shawna bought us dinner, which we weren't happy about, it was Mexican, my favorite, and we had a really nice visit. It was really windy and dusty while we were there. About the same as it has been since we left California. We are heading to Fredericksburg, TX tomorrow to stay at Buckhorn RV park. This is a place we have stayed a ... read more

Today was one of those days when nothing seemed to go as planned. We started out in Lordsburg, NM getting up bright and early so that we could go to breakfast before we hit the road. Little did we know that we had hit the time change so instead of it being 8:30 it was 9:30 after we were seated for breakfast which didn't bode well for an early start. Oh well. Then we had a choice of two ways to go to the Carlsbad Caverns. We decided to go through Las Cruces instead of El Paso because we hadn't been there before. Well we got to Alamagordo and the road that we needed to take over to Carlsbad had NUMEROUSsigns forbidding trucks or vehicles or 60 ft from traveling on this road. There was a ... read more

Well we finally began our trip to the Carolina's. I am a little behind in the blogging (more to follow about that) but better late than never. We started out on Friday to attend the wedding of Don's sister Phyllis' grandson Geoff's wedding in Temecula. Phyllis rode down in the Coach with us and we had a really nice visit. We stayed at an RV park just 2 miles from the wedding venue which made it very convenient. It was at an Indian Casino called Pechanga. The RV park was very nice and the spaces where very wide with nice grassy areas which Karlie appreciated very much. The weather was great and we really liked the downtown area of Temecula even though we didn't have any time to explore much since we were busy with the ... read more

We arrived home on Tuesday, October 19th after 121 days, 28 states, and 10,200 miles on the road. It has been the most amazing trip that we have taken so far in our life together and I am glad that I have kept this blog so that I can look back on all the places we have been and remember it all. While we missed our family and friends terribly this was a trip of a lifetime and I don't think we would change a thing. We met many interesting people and visited some of the most exciting and wonderful places that this great country has to offer. I hope that you have enjoyed this blog too and who knows, maybe we have enticed you enough to go out and visit some of the places that ... read more

Greetings from rain soaked Maine. We have been here in Scarborough, ME since Sunday and were going to leave yesterday but then it rained so we stayed an extra day. Now, we are experiencing remnants of Hurriance Iris or whomever and so we are hunkered down for a couple more days here because of the rain and wind that is coming through. It is still in the 70's so it isn't cold but it is raining off and on. The wind hasn't picked up yet but it is supposed to tonight. I am really looking forward to having an East Coast storm experience (NOT!). Once we get on the road we will be heading back into New Hampshire and then Massachusetts to the Yankee Candle Factory and the NBA Hall of Fame. After we have finished ... read more