Joanne & Wes DeVoe
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Joanne & Wes DeVoe
We are a couple, now in our early 70's, traveling in a 34" Holiday Vacationer Motor Home. Wes is a GE pensioner who just ended a 50 + year career, most recently consulting with the company. Joanne is a Public Relations specialist who runs her own "boutique" agency. Fall of 2015 began our 13th year keeping this travel blog. In the winter, we travel to and through Florida. We plan our route to include places of interest going to and fro and have included Williamsburg, Baltimore, Washington DC, St. Augustine, Savannah, Charlestown, Myrtle Beach, Florida's Pan Handle, New Orleans, Atlanta, Memphis, Nashville, Lexington, Pittsburgh and Gettysburg. A recent drive south took us to Cap May, NJ and the Outer Banks of NC. Travels close to home have included a VRB beach house on the shore in Rhode Island with the whole family (nine of us), a family trip to Niagara, an RV tour to Herkimer (home of the Herkimer Diamond Mines), Lechworth State Park (NY Finger Lakes Region), and Gettysburg. We have also traveled to New York City, Boston and Montreal several times during the past few years. A highlight was the June Jazz Fest in Montreal a few years back. Skiing and visiting family in Vermont and on Long Island, an annual boat camping trip on the islands of Lake George. We've visited Nevis in the West Indies several times; the most recent being in January 2012 with a side trip to Canouan in the Grenadine Islands. We've also visited Ireland, Tuscany, Paris, Normandy, Germany, The Netherlands and Switzerland. We have booked three river boat cruise, two on the Uniworld line and one on Viking. The trip from Paris to Normandy in Sept/Oct. 09 was exceptional. The trip on the Rhine and the Main from Cologne to Prague was interrupted due to illness. We had travel insurance and have learned mucho about how to (or not) recoup losses when the flight involves using frequent flier mileage incentives. The Viking trip was preceded by a few days in London and a new days in Amsterdam and a few days in Lucerne, Switzerland post boat. We used Empress Travel on Upper Union St., Schenectady. Joanne took a "girl trip" to Paris in the fall of 2012 with an aunt, sister, sister-in-law, niece, and cousin. Our RV - nicknamed "The Schooner" is located at Mohawk Marine in Alplaus, Schenectady County, NY on the banks of the beautiful Mohawk River in the summertime where it once served as my office. Winter travel to Florida typically has started with a road trip in the fall and ends with a trip home via a different route at Easter. We fly back and forth a few times during the winter for work, holiday, and family related responsibilities. We may have given up on taking a ski day at Killington or Pico with our grandchildren. Thanks to technology, Joanne can service her clients while on the road. The RV has served as a fully equipped office since April 2005. The addition of a little Jeep (now a Honda CRV) has made our RV trips even more fun. It connects to a tow bar called a Blue Ox, and trails right along behind us. One caution we observe is "don't back up!" You can find Joanne McMahon DeVoe and Wes DeVoe on Facebook!